“He will glorify Me…” — John 16:14 The holiness movements of today have none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them. There is nothing about them that needs the death of Jesus Christ. All ...
Matthew 20:25-28 25 But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 26 It shall not be so among you. But whoever would...
Romans 8:32-39 “32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God w...
Here’s one thing we can all agree on: there’s not much in this world that we can all agree on. No matter what you think, there is someone out there who will be happy to explain to you why you’re wrong. We live in a world ...
Philippians 2:9-11 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and ev...
“I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.” — 1 Corinthians 9:22 A Christian worker has to learn how to be God’s man or woman of great worth and excellence in the midst o...
My brother Kevin thinks God lives under his bed. At least that’s what I heard him say one night. He was praying out loud in his dark bedroom, and I stopped outside his closed door to listen. “Are you there, Go...
“I just don’t know if I believe anymore … and I don’t know what to do about it.” I hear words like these every single day from people from every corner of the planet, from every strand of the Christian tradition, fr...
If modern culture were a prize fight, organized Christianity wouldn’t quite be knocked out yet, but it would certainly be on the ropes, way behind on points coming to the bell. It’s no secret that people are leaving the C...
Reading the Bible is fairly easy. Interpreting it, however, can be tough. Commonly, well-known verses even take on lives of their own as they are rehearsed over and over apart from their original context. Most of the time...