My 10-year old son always has something in his hand. It’s been like this since he was an early toddler. It started out with Thomas the Train. He never went anywhere without Thomas, never slept without Thomas, never ate without Thomas. As he grew, the thing in his hand changed to whatever his favorite character…
A serious shift in thinking occurs when the church stops looking at certain issues as political and begins looking at them as spiritual. What we’re seeing right now in the church, and in what has been widely considered politically conservative, is disturbing. The root of the issue is that we’ve stopped looking at spiritual issues…
Did you know there is a distinct difference between joy and happiness? I believe it is vital, not just good and not just important, but vital for every Christian to understand the difference between joy and happiness and realize that God’s ultimate goal isn’t for us to be happy. We are commanded to be joyful,…
One of the biggest distortions of Christianity in the past century has been that if we serve God, then He should keep us from experiencing tribulation. There are those whose faith has been shipwrecked the moment they got a cancer diagnosis or had a child born with a disability; because they were somehow led to…
“How do I know which Bible teachers to follow?” This is a question I received not along ago by a relatively new Christian who was overwhelmed by the number of Bible teachers on the Internet. This is a very good question, because not only are there many wolves in sheep’s clothing (to quote the Bible), but…
Evangelical Christianity has reeled the past few years as shock wave after shock wave of high profile Christians declare they are abandoning their faith. And others who aren’t prepared to say that they are walking away, yet their beliefs defy the Word of God. Former pastors now proclaim themselves as atheists, leaving us to wonder…
