OK, so where do you think the biggest and most pressing mission field is found today? The Muslim world perhaps? Maybe North Korea? Or a…
Just imagine what the response would be if I publicly told someone to go to hell. The outrage would be instant and incessant. Christians especially…
Let me state this right at the outset: I have never trusted Kevin Rudd, and I have always thought Christians who blindly support him have…
Truth is not always pleasant. Often it can be quite ugly, or hard to deal with. It can be quite confronting. It can be something…
The church of Jesus Christ from its earliest days was known for its impact on the surrounding culture. Wherever the new believers went, they stirred…
Anyone who has actually studied both Islam and Christianity knows how radically different they are to each other. It has rightly been argued that Islam…
We are to be in the world but not of it – that is basic Christian thinking about our time here on earth. We are…
The trouble with so much of Christian preaching today is we are getting many people up for a big fall. We are giving folks a…
There is no Christian life without such basic realities as godliness and holiness. There would be other features characteristic of the true child of God,…
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…
OK, today’s question is this: have you managed to offend someone lately? And if not, why not? No, I am not being a smart-aleck here.…
This is primarily a religious term, although it can and does have secular uses. Thus one dictionary meaning defines a backslider as follows: “recidivist: someone…
I tend to ignore really stupid things making the rounds on the Internet, but since some have gone viral, and others have asked me to…
It may not seem this way, but what I wish to discuss is perfectly reasonable, so hear me out. My admittedly opaque title refers to…
How many times have you heard that one? I get it all the time. To simply stand up for your faith nowadays will result in…
Lots of people are worried about things like the current accounts deficit or deficit spending. Such things are rather concerning indeed and do rightly occupy…
One of the most pressing needs of contemporary Christians is to learn how to think critically. And the very fact that some of you are…
Crossway, 2011. There are of course many answers that can be given to the question asked here. Catholics would differ from Protestants on this issue…
So we now mark the 2000th. No, I am not referring to the number of books I have bought in the past few years (although…