People cannot be argued into the Kingdom of God. What do I mean by this? It’s not by any human reasoning, or rhetoric that people come to find faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior. It is by the grace and power of the Holy Spirit alone that can soften...
I wanted to share this excerpt from today’s entry from Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His Highest because it has as direct correlation to what I shared in this post. Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Luke 18:31. Jerusalem stands in the life...
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To continue with the theme of calling, I want to point out three things about calling that I believe are essential. First, our calling is not about us. Often times we think that God’s mission in the world is to make people (us) happy. I hate...
A few minutes after the service began, an elderly man entered the rear doors of the small church holding a dog. He quietly slipped into one of the rear pews, hoping to go unnoticed. When the pastor stood to deliver the sermon for the day, he notice...
God is faithful to grant his people both grace and wisdom in dark and difficult times. One of the things that makes times of difficulty bearable is knowing the way forward. Evaluating the public’s response to current events in America...
Violence and oppression are brothers. They are in the same category. They’re not the same thing, but they produce the same results: division and hatred. Violence and oppression are the instruments that a broken world uses to secure itself. Broken...
What is the proper Christian response to terrorism? The Old and New Testament alike can provide for us instruction and counsel in answering that question. Terrorism is not something that is unique to our time in human history. Terrorism is something...
Not long ago I wrote about guarding our minds and hearts by being careful about what we allow ourselves to be exposed to in the world. I said that the same way that we have to be very careful about eating clean food, we likewise have to be very...