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Nov 18, 2024 | 
byfaithonline.com | Nick Batzig
Before entering gospel ministry, I served as a chef in restaurants on St. Simons Island, Georgia, and in Asheville, North Carolina. I have long found the creativity involved in food preparation to be one of the most enjoyable human experiences. Of all the gifts that God has given us in this world, food is at the top of the list.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Nick Batzig
Mere intellectual knowledge that Jesus is the only Mediator and the One who fulfills the covenant promises is insufficient for us to receive the promised blessings—we need to exercise personal faith in Christ as the object of the blessings. God has chosen to make faith the instrument of union with Christ. This affects our invocation of the name of Jesus in our prayers to God. Certain practices have become so familiar among Christians that believers can be in danger of thoughtlessly performing them.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Nick Batzig
Though he had doubts, John wasted no time in seeking to quench them. He sent some of his disciples to Jesus to ask him about his ministry. The example of John teaches us to distinguish between doubt and unbelieving skepticism. John had made the largest and most confident confessions about the identity of Jesus.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Nick Batzig
Every time we see the rainbow we should remember God’s covenant faithfulness in sending the Redeemer to save a people for himself. Just as God had placed a rainbow in the sky to show his steadfast covenant fidelity, so there is a rainbow around the throne of Jesus Christ in glory (Rev. 4:3). We, like Noah, are beneficiaries of the mercy established in the Noahic Covenant in Jesus Christ.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Nick Batzig
Many refer to baptism as “an outward sign of an inward profession of faith.” While professing believers and their children certainly receive baptism as a mark of discipleship (Matt. 28:18–20; 1 Cor. 7:14) in obedience to Jesus, the covenant sign is not first and foremost pointing to something we have done. Rather, it is the sign that points to what God has promised to do in Christ by the Spirit.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
tabletalkmagazine.com | Nick Batzig |Tessa Thompson |Todd Alexander
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Nick Batzig
The more we are convinced of the truth that the Father has already provided legal forgiveness through the shedding of the blood of the Son, the more readily we will go to him for the paternal forgiveness of our particular sins. The apostle Peter explained that when growth in grace and holiness is lacking in someone’s life it is because he has “forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins” (2 Pet. 1:9).
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
tabletalkmagazine.com | Zachary Groff |Nick Batzig
All too often, we find prayer to be an excruciatingly difficult discipline of the Christian life. Even the most experienced and sincere saints find it hard to contest Thomas Watson’s pithy observation, “Jesus Christ went more willingly to the cross, than we do to the throne of grace.”1When we do bow our heads and urge our hearts heavenward, words frequently fail us. A feeling of inadequacy and a sense of uncertainty can dampen zeal and stifle the spirit.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Nick Batzig
Cosmic, consummative worldwide peace is entirely dependent on Jesus’ death on the cross. The effects of creaturely reconciliation are felt for all of eternity on account of His saving works. The vertical reconciliation of fallen men to God is foundational to the horizontal reconciliation of man to man. The former necessarily accomplishes and secures the latter.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
tabletalkmagazine.com | Ryan McGraw |Nick Batzig
Every good story has an end. This world has an end as well. The effects of sin in every area of life lead many people to ask whether there is meaning in any area of life. Yet, everything that God made has a purpose. He created all things and He governs all things, directing them to the right goal. This means that our salvation has an end or purpose as well. The purpose of all things is to glorify God.
