We do not hear all that much about liberation theology nowadays. But it certainly was a major issue in the 70s and 80s, and I…
When we think of the Great Awakening of the 18th century, the name George Whitefield must always be associated with this. Along with John and…
I have said this plenty of times before and I will say it again: when you are leading a megachurch, there is massive temptation to…
It is a perennial temptation of Christians to get their eye off the ball, forget what real biblical priorities are, and go off half-cocked on…
I have written before about aspects of the Positive Confession movement, in which a sort of mind-over-matter approach is taken. Also known as the Word…
Peter informed us 2000 years ago that “judgment must begin at the house of God” (1 Peter 4:17). His admonition holds just as true today…
In contemporary culture truth decay is a massive problem. That idea that there is fixed, absolute truth which applies to us all is rejected by…
Any careful student of church history knows how easy it is for truth to give way to error, for orthodoxy to collapse into heterodoxy. They…
As with so many things biblical, there is a lot of fuzzy thinking in our churches when it comes to dealing with public controversies. I…
Strangely enough, there are actually Christians today who are debating whether Christ needs to be Lord in the believer’s life. I would have thought that…
There are plenty of obvious oxymorons out there and one that has to be high on the list is this: “Christian Left”. Sure, these lefties…
Jesus taught us quite clearly that we would know someone based on their fruit. Indeed, he commanded us to judge, to discern, to assess, to…
It is not just believers who ponder things like heaven and hell – academics can and do as well. Consider one American academic who has…
A passage from the Old Testament which I read this morning has dovetailed nicely with a discussion on another posting, so it is worth trying…
There are always plenty of twisted teachings and dodgy doctrines circulating in our churches. One is known as the Prosperity Gospel or the Health and…
Because we live in such a topsy-turvy world, we can’t count on anything always being safe, or be assured of any unchanging verities. In a…
Some topics can never be exhausted, be it with one article or a hundred. Some issues keep cropping up which need to be addressed over…
If Christ is who he claims to be, and is the only way to reconciliation with God, then we can expect that plenty of counterfeits…
It is a very fearful thing indeed to seek to be a Christian leader. It is probably better not to seek such leadership at all,…