Our Life's Comfort

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. 

Like all the redemptive events summarized in the Apostles’ Creed, Jesus’ earthly beginning is a historical event that profoundly affects our lives today.

At first, Christ’s lordship might seem unwanted. We’re so committed to autonomy that we distrust anyone ruling over us. But our willingness to submit should depend on the character of the one we’re called to submit to.

Jesus is the special, personal name of the second person of the Trinity. But Christ isn’t like his last name. To believe in Jesus Christ is to believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ, the Messiah, the anointed one of God (John 1:41).

God is a Trinity, one divine being in three distinct persons. So basic is this truth that the Apostles’ Creed uses the Trinity to organize its summary of the Christian faith. We worship God the Father as our Creator and Provider, and the Holy Spirit as our Sanctifier. In the center of the creed we learn to worship as our Deliverer “Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, our Lord.”

Every doctrine of the Christian faith is essential. But they are not equally transparent in our lives.

The Bible teaches us to believe differently. The first article of the Apostles’ Creed affirms that there is a God. We are living in the world that he has made and sustains. And we can know him as a loving Father!

The Apostles’ Creed handily summarizes the entire Christian faith using the scheme of the Trinity. But more basically it helps believers declare their total dependence on the Triune God. Let’s learn from the Creed to affirm the Trinity.