The Gospel in Acts
The speeches in Acts are strong starting places for us to become attuned to foundational truths of the gospel.
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The Unexpected Jesus: Lessons from the Road to Emmaus, Part 1
In this three-part series, we will consider two of Jesus’ followers who had such strong preconceived notions about the Messiah that they failed to recognize the resurrected Christ when he was staring them in the face. In this series, we will consider Luke 24 to learn what ...
Hold Fast to Truth
If you live in the western world, you live in a culture that tries to eradicate any physical or emotional pain. People go to outrageous lengths to avoid any unwanted situations, difficult people, and hard tasks which become a lifetime goal. Christian churches gain ...
Salvation Requires Perseverance
Understanding how salvation works is extremely important. Sadly, there’s much confusion and deception over this topic in
Christianity today. I realize in an article of this length that I can’t possibly cover everything, but I hope merely to provide a biblically faithful, ...
Just Keep the Peace
Are you trusting, supportive, and accommodating? Are you the kind of person who is always seeking harmony in your
relationships? Are you someone who can manage to be content in any situation? Is laziness your Achilles’ heel? If so, you just may be a peacemaker.
Peacemakers ...
No One Will Control Me
Are you confident, assertive, and capable? Are you generally uncomfortable with working on a team? Are your heroes rugged
individualists who took life by the horns and bent the world to their will? Are you determined, decisive, and direct? If so, then you may just be a ...
I Can’t Wait to See What’s Next
Are you an upbeat person who is always on the lookout for your next exciting adventure? Do you have an unlimited supply of optimism welling up within you? Would you rather explore the island than sit on the beach? If you answered, “Yes,” to these questions, you just may be ...
A Christian Response to Gun Violence
How can we be salt and light in a world filled with tragedy?
In the 911 call recording, you can hear Tiffany trying to keep it together. Behind her, children are crying. She shushes them repeatedly, trying to keep her own panicked breathing under control. She’s insisting that she hears gunshots. In the background, sirens wail.
I Will Be Ready for That
How much time, effort, and money have you put into emergency readiness? In other words, do you have a blanket, flashlight, and prepackaged food in your vehicle in case you break down somewhere? Do you have dried food, a barrel of iodine infused water, and antibiotics stored ...
Brood of Vipers!
God Does Not Cancel, He Calls
Cancel culture is one “in which [people] gain prestige for identifying small offenses…, and then publicly ‘calling out’ the offenders.… Call-out culture … award[s] status to people who shame or punish alleged offenders.”1 In twenty-first ...
Evangelism and How Not to Pray
The rush and thrill of evangelism is a pleasure which far too few Christians avail themselves.
Nonetheless, Jesus was emphatic: his followers were to go and preach the Good News as a witness in all the inhabited earth. And despite the best of intentions, who can say ...
God Can Do So Much With So Little
What’s your favorite “Jesus story”?
I once heard a Bible teacher ask us this question—to think about our favorite gospel story of Jesus. He asked us to consider—of all the amazing things Jesus did and said, if one or two records had a special impact or was particularly ...
