Fifty years ago Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill died. He was born on November 30, 1874, and died on January 24, 1965. He was without doubt one…
As I am reading again through the book of Acts, one thing that has struck me is just how much of a continuation we find…
There are millions of Christians today who read Scriptures many times over, but live just like atheists. They read the Word of God but they…
So who qualifies as the most annoying, the most irksome, the most controversial, and the most rejected preacher of all time? While many might come…
OK, if you like the blues – as I do – and some oldish classic films, then you will know what I am talking about…
A good general rule of thumb is this: if the crowds are for something, you should be against it. Not always, but often. The crowd…
I love being in the gospel of Matthew again. And the best way to read it is to pray that it strikes you as if…
So what are you doing with your life? Are you making a difference for Christ and the Kingdom? What are your priorities in life? What…
Who proclaimed truth more than any other person on the planet? Who offended people, divided crowds, made people uptight, and enraged the masses more than…
Do you know why we keep losing the many battles we find ourselves in, be it the culture wars or the battle for truth or…
If there was anything that I learned from my time in Europe and England, it is the truth that a godly heritage can be almost…
OK, there is not much new one can say about books. They have been around for quite a while now. A couple of millennia ago…
A good part of the reason why Western society is in such a contemptible mess is because Western churches are in a contemptible mess. Instead…
One rather remarkable passage in Revelation (actually there are many remarkable passages there) is found in ch. 21:6-8: “He said to me: ‘It is done.…
Talk about an endangered species: it is getting harder and harder nowadays to find believers with a bit of backbone. One fears they may soon…
It is getting to the point that if I declare in public that two plus two equals four, I may well offend somebody. If I…
Simply put, women are treated as second-class citizens in most Muslim-majority nations. And this is not an anomaly of Islam: it fully follows from authoritative…
Two recent articles coming out of the US present contrasting visions of the Christian life in general, and the culture wars in particular. One laments…
As I am reading through the book of Acts right now I am again struck at how markedly different the gospel the first Christians preached…
In a bucket list a person draws up a listing of all the things he wants to do or see before he dies. As each…