My father, Art Batzig, started showing signs of dementia two and a half years ago. He died this morning after a long battle with a... Read More

Whenever I carry out pre-marital counseling sessions with a young couple in the church, I dedicate a portion of the counselling to the subject of expectations.... Read More

When I proposed to Anna in 2003, she gifted me a small, leather bound, antiquarian copy of Thomas Brooks’ The Unsearchable Riches of Christ. This little... Read More

I was voicing a complaint to a friend about the opposition I was experiencing in ministry: “Why is this happening? I didn’t do anything to... Read More

There is something breathtakingly wonderful when we stand at the top of a peak of a mountain and overlook the valleys and rivers below. We... Read More

The account of Cain and Abel (Gen. 4:1–16) is one of the most instructive portions of Scripture––not simply because it is the first account of... Read More

When I was a boy, my parents frequently quoted various Scriptures to my sister and me when they overheard us arguing with one another. Ephesians... Read More

As we find ourselves in yet another nativity season, it is right for us to reflect on the many lessons from the biblical teaching about... Read More