October 31, 2021
When we follow Jesus, we don’t just get a relationship with Jesus, and we don’t just get help from Jesus, we get to learn from Jesus. That’s why there must be a willingness in us to yoke ourselves with Jesus – to surrender to Jesus. For when we trust Jesus, Jesus entrusts His heart to us.
October 25, 2020
This world is not our home. But while we are here, we are to willingly submit to the governing authorities over us but remember it is God whom we are serving.
July 1, 2020
What Paul is talking about here, in working out our salvation, is basically learning how to carry out this new way of life God called us to when He rescued us from our old way of life. We are to let Him be our coach, submit to His ways, learn His fundamentals, learn to work out our new life together.
March 6, 2018
When we take His yoke upon us, Jesus enables us to do things we could never do on our own. When we are yoked with Jesus, He helps us obey God. When we are yoked with Jesus, He gives us His patience to love those who are difficult to love.. When we are yoked with Jesus, He gives us His power to endure temptation. When we are yoked with Jesus, He gives us His faith to keep going when we can’t see where we are going. This is Jesus the servant leader, who wants to help us live and love like Him. We can’t do this on our own. But when we are yoked with Him, He can help us live in ways we never dreamed possible.
January 26, 2016
Husbands, God has given us a unique privilege. The pattern for our role in our marriages is to live out the gospel for our wives. Our role is to lead her with grace. Our role is to lead her with sacrifice. Our role is to love our wives like Jesus loved the church. What this means is that God wants you to give yourself fully for her: to die to our selfish ways, to surrender our pride and seek her best no matter what it might cost us.