Serious Christians take the Bible seriously. Taking the Bible seriously is a dangerous thing. It’s dangerous because there are things in the Bible that are hard to understand. There are also commands to Christians in the Bible that are hard to carry...
So we tell others about Christ, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all the wisdom God has given us. — Colossians 1:28 One of the major trademarks of evangelical Christianity is that it takes seriously Jesus’s command to make disciples and...
Too often I beat myself up over not being spiritual enough. I constantly tell myself that I don’t pray enough, I don’t fast enough, I don’t read my Bible enough, I don’t worship enough, don’t practice solitude enough, don’t take communion enough—the...
This week I attended a missionary retreat in southern Georgia. During the retreat, the facilitators asked each attendee to share their life story. This is more or less the story of how you arrived at having a personal relationship with Jesus and...
I recently had a conversation with a guy who wanted to know why Jesus constantly called himself “Son of Man”. The reason is because he is the True Adam; pure human. Jesus is what “man” (read “humanity”) was always...
Psalm 19 is one of my favorite psalms. Among scholars it’s known as a wisdom psalm as it focuses on the particular topic of revelation (like Psalm 1, and Psalm 119). The central point of the Psalm is to remind God’s people that their God...
There is an interesting story in the New Testament where Jesus has a conversation with a woman at a well (John 4). The story goes that Jesus, in traveling from one Jewish town (Jerusalem) to another (Galilee), passed through a foreign land (Samaria)...
Can I get on a soap-box for just a second? In general, would a Protestant Evangelical (which I identify as) disagree with any of the following?: God is the main character in the story of redemption, not you and me. Salvation is not primarily about...
Recently I attended a backyard barbecue. There were about twenty or so friends and family members there including my mom and dad who made the trip up from Florida to visit us while we were speaking at churches in the greater Philadelphia area...
What does it mean to the “saved”? Different people answer this question different ways, and the answer to the question is as complex and vast as the Bible itself. Typically, folks define salvation according to the biblical notion as...