To His Glory Music

09/01/2025

06/04/2024

Lord, You have called me to live in grace. But I in my sinful flesh want to live according to the law, because I can control that and because I can make my own law. I am uncomfortable with grace because I cannot understand it, I cannot fathom it. I want to live in a commodity and service economy. I serve You so You provide the commodity of salvation and relationship. This is NOT living “in the grace of Christ.”
Forgive me for this. Help me, by Your Spirit, to live in the grace of Christ today and to love others by the grace of Christ.

06/01/2024

Imagine how different your day will be today if you focus on thankfulness instead of your troubles? To be sure, God cares about your troubles. But this is about your attitude and concern. Imagine it...

05/27/2024

Life on the new earth in the new Jerusalem is the life you have always wanted—without the tears, death, mourning, crying, and pain that make life miserable (Rev. 21:4). This is possible because it is life in “the unfiltered presence of God.” At last, “God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God” (v. 3).
From
“Risen” by
Steven D. Mathewson

05/26/2024

We do not serve the third or fifth greatest being in the universe. We do not serve one whose supremacy will end when he retires or when a greater being appears on the scene. Thanks to the resurrection, the Lord we serve is supreme over all. In him, all things hold together (Col. 1:17)—your cardiovascular system, the water cycle, the institution of marriage, and everything else we depend on for life. Like the sun at the center of the solar system, the glory of the risen Lord holds together all the aspects of our life, which revolve around it!
From
“Risen” by
Steven D. Mathewson

05/21/2024

You and I will be raised one day. That is for sure. Whether we are raised to life in God’s presence or raised to face God’s judgment depends on our response to God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in this life. No wonder we stand fast in the gospel. No wonder we approach the task of proclaiming the gospel with a sense of urgency. People’s eternal destinies are at stake.
From
“Risen” by
Steven D. Mathewson

05/19/2024

The resurrected Christ is the one who will bring this justice. We long for his judgment because it will bring peace and restore our relationships to what God designed them to be. The peace justice brings is more than the absence of war. “It means complete reconciliation, a state of the fullest flourishing in every dimension—physical, emotional, social, and spiritual—because all relationships are right, perfect, and filled with joy.”
From
“Risen” by
Steven D. Mathewson

05/17/2024

We can assume that what Jesus taught about the kingdom of God between his resurrection and ascension shows up in the teaching of the apostles in the New Testament. We learn much about the kingdom of God in the New Testament letters. We learn that the kingdom is a matter of “righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Rom. 14:17). We also learn that even though the kingdom of God involves suffering (2 Thess. 1:5; Rev. 1:9), it is a matter of power (1 Cor. 4:20), it cannot be shaken (Heb. 12:28), and it is eternal (2 Pet. 1:11; Rev. 11:15).
From
“Risen” by
Steven D. Mathewson

05/15/2024

This promise is especially significant for two reasons. First, it provides encouragement for carrying out Jesus’s mission. No matter how difficult their task, Jesus’s followers can count on the presence of their crucified and risen Lord. Second, the promise of Jesus’s presence advances a key theme in the developing story of the Bible: the presence of God.
From
“Risen” by
Steven D. Mathewson

05/15/2024

When we, as Jesus’s followers, go to “make disciples of all nations”—the main command in Jesus’s commission—by leading them to Christ (signified by “baptizing”) and building them up in Christ (signified by “teaching them to observe” what Jesus taught), we do so with the full authority of Christ behind us!
From
“Risen” by
Steven D. Mathewson