The Christian religion places a tremendous premium on truth. If Christianity is not true, then it is not worth following. Indeed, that is the ultimate…
There were two recent news items which had to do with Islam. The first seemed to indicate that Islam is in the ascendency, while the…
The Christian faith gets some pretty bad press nowadays. Certainly much of this is deserved. But for all its faults, the Christian religion is responsible…
Many former God-haters have either converted or passed on: There is an old religious joke about a few quotations graffitied on a bathroom wall. The…
Even in the West God is still at work: Europe is still likely the most secular continent on earth – at least in terms of…
‘Conveyor belts’ of fake conversions and immigration scams: In the past Christian missionaries in places like India had to be careful of “rice Christians.” These…
On the falling star of the new atheism: The new atheists were all the rage just a few short decades ago. They now seem to…
Jesus and the disciples had pretty useful ways to share the gospel: If you know your New Testament, you will know that Jesus and the…
Introducing Saint Augustine: Anyone even remotely interested in the major disciplines of the humanities – be it history, philosophy, theology, ethics or politics – must…
We can never get enough of the great Spurgeon: The great English preacher Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) would easily have 800, perhaps even 8000 classic quotes…
The importance of setting up a home library: I like big libraries and I cannot lie. That should come as no surprise to those who…
It is the grace of God not to tell us everything: It is a blessing of God that he does not show us all that…
One can never get enough of Leonard Ravenhill: There is always so much we can glean from the words of Ravenhill – though he is…
On the conversion of C. S. Lewis: Anyone who has read the account of Lewis’ conversion in Surprised By Joy (HBJ, 1955) will know that…
Here are five moving stories of those who renounced their disdain of Christianity: The Roman leaders, the Jewish leaders, and Satan himself all thought that…
We can learn so much from Jonathan Edwards about revival: Given how much talk there is about revival at the moment, and how much interest…
More reflections on what is happening in the US: The activities taking place in Kentucky and elsewhere continue. As I said in earlier pieces, it…
Will we ever know just how important prayer is? Prayer is something that I might talk about and write about more than I actually do.…
Yes, this is a strange title, but wait: there is a connection between the Atlanta pastor and the two Old Testament champions of faith. Indeed,…
This is the central reality of Christianity: There are of course millions if not billions of words written on the greatest event of human history:…