I am a procrastinator. Whether or not that makes me qualified to write this post, I will let you be the judge! Over the course of my life I have fallen victim to the clutches of procrastination. Even down to my last seminary assignment before graduation, I was up until 2 AM the night before …
One of the greatest desires my wife and I have for our children is that they will learn that they can trust God in every area of their lives for their entire lives. This is not something we want to leave to someone else either. The truth is, it is something that their mother and …
C.S. Lewis said in Mere Christianity, “The Christians are right: it is pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.” Pride is a deadly sin and some have argued that it is the CHIEF sin. It seems as if Adam and Eve felt they …
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The Christian life is a disciplined life. It is a life full of activities that guide the formation of the new man in Christ. At the foundation of that spiritual formation you will find the necessity for constant saturation of Scripture, prayer, and fellowship. As humans we seek, and often require, explicit step-by-step instructions for …
Mormonism has grown to be a massive religion worldwide. According to an article by CNN, there are 15 million members of the church globally with 88,000 Mormon missionaries and 144 Mormon temples. This is a religion and a cult that cannot be ignored. Millions of souls are enslaved to this false form of Christianity and …
[smart_track_player url=”http://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/8963326/bruce_ware_trinity.mp3″ title=”Ep 39: Bruce Ware on the Trinity” image=”http://d1bm3dmew779uf.cloudfront.net/large/ecd49fe04f10945422b123335d4f241d.jpg” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” ] We scheduled Dr. Bruce Ware, author of Big Truths for Young Hearts and Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for a podcast weeks before the Trinity debate ripped through the blogosphere, but as providence would have it, we were able to talk …
Several years ago, in the black of a cold October night, I was awakened by the sound of a rather large bear literally roaring outside of my backpacking tent. The bear was very close, and his powerful recital alone may have been sufficient to catalyze cardiac arrest in some persons. I had dealt with my fair share …
All the world needs is love, or so the saying goes. In many ways, this statement is true, in that God is love (1 John 4:8). Love infiltrates every aspect of life. Thus, a wrong definition of love can have catastrophic consequences, because the fallout also impacts every aspect of life. While volumes could be …
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When I first attended church, people were studying their Bibles in all different ways. I remember one Sunday school class where the teacher was going through John 15 talking about “the vine.” People were debating back and forth between non-Lordship salvation and Lordship salvation. Others were talking about how the passage had nothing to do …
When I first became a Christian, I had many opportunities in the public school system to share and defend my faith. I sat under one professor in particular who was the leader of Gay Straight Alliance in my home state, went to Catholic seminary, and was well-versed in World History. Although we had our clear …
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