“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation” (Isaiah 12:2 ESV). Oh, what a difference there is in thinking that the Lord is a means to salvation, or even just a way of salvation, […]

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which […]

“My beloved is mine, and I am his” (Song of Solomon 2:16a ESV)… Song of Solomon is a beautiful gospel-centered book; it’s about the union between Jesus and His bride, the church. For every Christian is a part of the universal Church, and as God’s Word says, “Christ loved the church and gave himself up […]

“For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica” (2 Timothy 4:10a ESV)… Towards the end of his life, in some of his last recorded words, no doubt with a broken heart, the apostle Paul tells us that Demas has deserted him, and not only him, but, out of […]