Over the past several months, I’ve taken a break from regular writing and blogging because I’ve been pondering the importance of Christian maturity. The apostle Paul himself stated that one of the central goals of his ministry was to “present…
Recently, I’ve had three conversations that all circle around one significant topic: Christianity as a mere intellectual exercise. In the first, a seminary student told me of a conversation with his son: “Dad, I believe in the Christian faith. I…
“I have undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus. The popular phrase for this is ‘deconstruction,’ the biblical phrase is ‘falling away.’ By all the measurements that I have for defining a Christian, I am not…
Something is terribly wrong when professing Christians do not identify with the church and love being a part of her. Something is wrong when professing Christians fail to be passionate about every aspect of the church and long to invest…
Have you ever gotten a request from a fellow brother or sister in Christ asking for immediate prayer? Perhaps he is facing a temptation for which he needs help resisting. Or maybe she is feeling overcome by grief or sorrow…
On the night I proposed to Anna 15 years ago, she gave me a gift–an antiquarian edition of Thomas Brooks The Unsearchable Riches of Christ. It is a work to which I returned many times over the past 15 years.…
If you could give a new mom the perfect gift, what would it be? Would it be full night’s sleep? Maybe you’d give her a hot meal without interruption or maybe the confidence that she’ll be a good mom. Those…
If you could give a new mom the perfect gift, what would it be? Would it be full night’s sleep? Maybe you’d give her a hot meal without interruption or maybe the confidence that she’ll be a good mom. Those…
If you could give a new mom the perfect gift, what would it be? Would it be full night’s sleep? Maybe you’d give her a hot meal without interruption or maybe the confidence that she’ll be a good mom. Those…
Much that passes for Christian decision making in modern Evangelicalism strikes me as a mixture of lazy moral reasoning and illegitimate efforts to discern those “secret things” (Deut. 29:29) that God has never promised to reveal to us. Scripture has…
