For much of our nation’s history, Christians could float with the current of culture as it was going generally in the same direction we wanted to go. Christianity was ‘mainstream’–literally! But, several decades ago, while complacency and compromise with things… Continue Reading →
For many generations, the church in the West has been able to float lazily along on an inner tube because the current of culture was flowing in roughly the same direction. And so, we fell asleep, not realizing that in… Continue Reading →
In our relationship with God as in our earthly relationships, we would all insist that we love the other, but to what degree do we love? The transition to love for God begins when we recognize ourselves in the first… Continue Reading →
Writing just decades before the Northern Kingdom was taken into captivity, Amos attributed its decline to the sins of Jeroboam two centuries before (Amos 7:8-11). This is how any nation ends that doesn’t put God first. From a study Bible… Continue Reading →
An heir to his grandfather’s and father’s big legacies, Reheboam had a choice if he would seek God like they did or lean on his own understanding. Just as we cannot get to heaven on the coattails of another’s faith,… Continue Reading →
Since the second Person of the Godhead is eternal, what was Jesus doing from creation through incarnation? The Great Christology of Colossians 1:15-20 tells us quite a lot. Far from just arriving on the scene for the first time in… Continue Reading →
In the 1st century, those who had been with Jesus or witnessed the power of the resurrection of the dead had a difficult time believing that He had been a man. In the postmodern skepticism of the 21st century, many… Continue Reading →
In President Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863, he told us to set apart and observe “a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” Though secular culture has made the day about food, family,… Continue Reading →
Is it better to “grow up in the church” or to escape the world to seek truth on your own? The first may not know the sharp edge of the world’s heartache, but often a personal faith is taken for… Continue Reading →
After the wedding is over, who does the work in the marriage relationship? The answer is both … if the marriage is to be successful. So it must be when we enter into a relationship with Christ. The Bridegroom has… Continue Reading →
We often think that Jesus using a Samaritan, whom the Jews despised, to show kindness to a Jewish man was just to answer the question, “And who is my neighbor?” but the ‘And’ indicates that this parable goes much deeper. … Continue Reading →
At this time of year, the world puts forth all the things that it considers scary, but they all have to do with the first death, the separation of our souls from our bodies. No wonder that this experience and… Continue Reading →
A man drowning at sea is suddenly thrown a life ring that splashes into the water next to him. Taking hold of it, he is pulled into the boat by his rescuer and lives the rest of his life eternally… Continue Reading →
The struggles of this year have certainly tested Christians! Like tea bags diffusing into the water around them, are we influencing the world for the gospel? Or are we like sponges instead, soaking up the culture we’re immersed in? I. … Continue Reading →
Is a person just blessed to be selected from the world by God for great things … or does God use a person for great things because he selects God over the world? I. The answer to this question is… Continue Reading →
David is described as a man after God’s heart (Acts 13:22), but that doesn’t mean that he was perfect. That’s good news for us! Because, as we strive to also chase after God’s heart, we can become disheartened when we… Continue Reading →
I remember reading the assembly instructions as a kid for something my dad was putting together and was told that we didn’t need them. My protests over a handful of screws when the contraption was built were dismissed with the… Continue Reading →
We are to let the Word dwell in us richly, Colossians 3:16 tells us, and one of those ways to teach and admonish with thankfulness in our hearts is by singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to one another. “The… Continue Reading →
The impact of the gospel becomes real at the moment Jesus cries out with “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” while on the cross. This is the whole reason for the “good news” in the first place. … Continue Reading →
If asked, many would say that Lincoln is on the penny … but it is only his likeness. Jesus states that He and His Father are one (John 10:30), but how does that oneness come about? And how can we… Continue Reading →
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