Where is the balance between Christian maturity and legalism? This is a question I’ve asked myself many times over the years as I’ve recognized the benefit and beauty of Christian maturity as well as the danger of legalism. We live in a time in Church history when the worldly philosophies of “Do what makes you…
Can Christians have developmental delays? As parents, we sometimes determine that our children have delays in their development. Some are late bloomers, others have more serious disorders that cause a significant delay. Can the same be true for Christians; and if so, what are the parameters that indicate Christian immaturity? Paul wrote this letter to…
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…
Being a Christian is more than listening to Christian music, reading a little devotional, and watching Pureflix. Probably a lot of people thought my parents were overly strict growing up. For sure, many likely thought they were raising us in a bubble. We didn’t have a T.V.. We were homeschooled in the early 80’s when…
I was somewhat dissatisfied with my post “Should Christian Parents Teach Their Children Safe Sex“. As I hit “Publish”, I felt like there was still so much left to be said, that there were avenues of this discussion I hadn’t yet explored and that needed to be addressed. My heart and prayer with this mini-series…
How seriously do we consider God’s laws today? When God gave us His Word, did He take into account what our culture would be like today: Maybe today’s culture is just really different from what the culture was like back then. Or maybe it’s not! When God instructed Noah to build the ark, the Bible…
