Josh Benner

Tag: God

  • If you want to be a runner, run. If you want to be a Christian, run to God.

    Let’s say you say you’re going to start running. And so you buy running shoes, you subscribe to runner’s magazines, you start wearing spandex, like all the time. And then six months goes by, and you still haven’t taken your shoes out of the box… You’re not a runner. Having all of the things a…

  • Strength through the toughest struggles

    At the beginning of Romans 5, the Apostle Paul is speaking of the glories of justification by faith. Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice…

  • Glimpses of the work of God in the world

    Jesus taught: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” With the promises of the Lord, there’s a sense of the present fulfillment of the promise, but it points to a later and greater fulfillment in heaven. So for the present day, we do get a sense of the Lord, we are…

  • Wisdom is as wisdom does

    Originally published March 8, 2017 There are two ways to go. The way of the wise and the way of the fool. This is based off of the wisdom tradition of the Old Testament. Which often talks about these two roads. In James 3:13, he asks a rhetorical question, “Who is wise in understanding among…

  • What wisdom has to do with struggles

    Originally published December 5, 2016 It’s In the opening chapter of the Letter of James, in talking about the trials we face, James says: “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to him” (James 1:5). What does wisdom have to do…