Why is it Sometimes Difficult to Know God’s Will?
Sometimes I wish the Bible were more specific about some things. When making big decisions – when studying particularly complicated, hot-button topics in categories of worship, morality, or...
Christian Living
Why I’m Not Ashamed of Different Gender Roles in the Church
God doesn’t make mistakes. When He said, “It is not good that the man should be alone” (Gen. 2:18), He was not saying “Whoopsie daisy!” Instead, He was...
Going to Church as an Act of High Treason
Getting my family to church on Sunday morning sometimes feels like we are recreating the first 10 minutes of “Home Alone.” There is nothing glamorous about it, even...
I don’t remember my high-school math (and I’m okay)
Between you and me, I have a confession to make: I hardly remember anything I learned in my high school trigonometry class. I also can’t write in cursive...
Why It’s So Important To Sing Together
Whenever I get the occasional chance to witness a worship service at a denominational or “non-denominational” church,[1] I’ve always been surprised by how few people in the audience actually...
Why It’s Wrong To Keep Truth And Grace In Balance
We want to be balanced people. It is considered a good thing to have a balanced diet or to keep a healthy balance between work and pleasure. But...
What Must I Do To Stay Saved?
I know some who live in constant fear of being lost. They are keenly aware of their flaws and failures, and believe their soul is continually in jeopardy....
What Must I Do To Be Saved?
Five Things It’s the most important question you can ever ask. Yet if you ask ten different churches, you’ll get ten different answers. But what does the Bible...
Stop Wishing for “the Good Old Days” of the Church
Sometimes I hear people talk about the “glory days” of the church. They typically don’t call it that, but that’s how it comes across to me. It goes...
Stop Trading Holiness For “Authenticity”
“Then Abraham had a child out of wedlock with one of his maidservants,” said the preacher at a church in the Bronx. “There was dysfunctionality in his family.”...