Common Arguments Defending Alcohol, Answered
Remarkably, alcohol is the only drug one must defend not using. The statement, “I don’t drink,” feels like it is more...
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When “Book, Chapter, Verse” Becomes A Bad Thing
Few Bible characters take as much of a beating from our pulpits today as the Pharisees. It seems everyone wants his...
Jesus Died to End Abortion & Racism
My heart is heavy this week. I can’t rid my mind of the news of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville...
A Tale of Two Gods: How Calvinism’s God & the Bible’s God are Two Very Different Gods
One very popular denominational preacher and writer, John Piper, is famous for saying that “all things” – even down to the...
The Real Meaning of Matthew 18:20
When two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in their midst. To be sure, these are words...
Protecting the Lord’s Supper: Why I Like that Little Cup & Wafer
If a Christian from the 1st century could travel forward in time to the 21st century and visit a typical worship...
What Must I Do to be Lost?
Sometimes people get caught up in discussions about what sins will send a man to hell. Usually, the “really bad” sins,...
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...
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.”...
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...