Jonathan Landry Cruse

We live in a day when the self stands at the center of the universe, and everything else must orbit around it. But what happens when you recognize, receive, and rejoice in the reality that God’s Word is firmly fixed like the sun in the heavens?

God’s free gift is everything. It’s life. It’s justification. It’s righteousness. And yet it’s so hard for us to take. Why?

It has been said that prayer is the spiritual breath of the Christian. If that’s so, why are so many of us suffocating ourselves?

At the sound of her name on the lips of her Savior, the whole world comes into focus. The Good Shepherd calls his sheep by name, and they hear his voice (John 10:3).

The average person is convinced that something newer and greater is just around the corner.

Why should we do good? 

Simply knowing that the God of the universe has an invested desire that I be grateful changes my perspective.

It should help in our pursuit of a thankful heart to understand why gratitude is such a powerful corrective to anxiety.

The very first thing—the most fundamental thing—that we must acknowledge about God is that he is the Father.

If you’re struggling with that one sin that never seems to go away, that’s when you need the good news of the inexhaustible grace and love of Jesus more than ever.

And yet the hope of true believers was for one singular Messiah to come, who would embody in himself the essential work of a prophet, priest, and a king.

Have you ever wondered what you’re supposed to be doing during the Lord’s Supper? Obviously, there’s eating and drinking. But for an essential ritual in the Christian faith it seems so simple and ordinary–is something “more” supposed to be going on?