Our Life's Comfort

As with most actions, baptism requires explanation. What does it mean to be baptized “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matt. 28:19)?

If you asked ten people how to grow in grace you might hear ten different answers. And many of the answers might have little scriptural support. So is there a sure way to become more Christ-like?

Many of us struggle with gifts. We like receiving things, but only if we’ve earned them. We don’t want to feel indebted.

Here’s how the catechism puts the question after almost 40 questions and answers about the Apostles’ Creed, the church’s ancient summary of Bible doctrine: “But how does it help you now to believe all this?” Short answer: Believing God’s truth completely changes us.

Christian living straddles two realities. Christ is making all things new (Rev. 21:5). But no one has fully experienced that newness.

It seems like the Apostles’ Creed has much less to say about the Holy Spirit than it does about the Father and the Son. But what if we understood everything that follows to be a consequence of the Spirit’s ministry?

Jesus had commissioned his disciples to be his witnesses in a hostile world. But they lacked the power to take the first step. What was missing from their lives?

Where is God in my pain? Does my struggle against sin matter when no one seems to care? Why does God allow injustice to go unpunished? Why doesn’t God come to us when we need him most?

It's impossible to overstate the importance of Jesus’s resurrection from the dead.

Have you ever read a book with so dark and disturbing a beginning that you nearly quit reading before getting to the end? Some stories are so miserable that they seem not worth finishing.

Why did Jesus humble himself so far that he was “dead, and buried; he descended into hell”? And how is this good news for us?

As sufferers living in a world of suffering, we need a suffering Savior.