COVID-19 Is Disrupting Americans’ Engagement with Scripture
Joe Carter (article)
It is through engagement with the Bible that we hear and encounter God. If we don’t engage with Scripture we can’t fulfill our primary purpose, which is, as the late J.I. Packer explained, is knowing God.
Ministry to Women When There's No "Women's Ministry"
Carrie Russell
(Article) A few thoughts from a pastor's wife on the role of women's ministry in their church.
What Does the Bible Say About Tough Love?
When is tough love necessary, and how can we do that well?
Beware the Black Hole of Time
Austin Brown This is that period of time following the service when the visitor is standing around awkwardly, knowing not a soul. As the church bustles about, clumped together in their familiar groups, the new family nervously gathers their stuff, looks about the room and waits. They’re hoping to be included.
What We Miss When We Miss Sunday Morning
Bob Kaughlin Answers the question of all the benefits and relationships and growth someone misses when they miss out on a Sunday morning.
Letters to a New Believer, Part Four
Aaron Armstrong Dear new believer, Emily and I had lived together, more or less, since 2000. In 2001, we got our first apartment together. In late 2004, we bought a house together. And then in 2005 Jesus saved us and made a mess of everything. When it came to realizing what the Bible says about sexual immorality applied to us, we were a little slow on the uptake...
What Does the Bible Say?
Don Whitney Some of the most important changes in my life occurred when I thought to ask, “What does the Bible say about this?”
Piper on Emotional Blackmail in the Church
Jared C. Wilson "Emotional blackmail happens when a person equates his or her emotional pain with another person’s failure to love. They aren’t the same. A person may love well and the beloved still feel hurt, and use the hurt to blackmail the lover into admitting guilt he or she does not have..."
3 Muslim-Christian Crossroads
C.M. If you’ve ever had a prolonged conversation with a Muslim on theology, you know that they are generally well-trained in discussing their problems with the Trinity and divinity of Jesus. So why not consider looking for points of discussion off the beaten path and that may even engage us as Christians at a heart level too?
When to Overlook A Fault: 12 Questions
David Murray Jim Newcomer said, “When you have been sinned against you have two options: to either lovingly cover or lovingly confront.” But how do we know the right option?
Fisherman That Don't Fish
J.D. Greear “Follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” It is tragically easy for those of us in ministry to forget this, to get so wrapped up in nuances of theology and specific strategies that we no longer personally seek the lost...
The Priority of Growing in Love
Woodman Valley Chapel A four minute video on the positive effects of love...
Your Interfaith Friends Aren’t Projects
Alec Hibbs The point of interfaith friendships isn’t conversion, it’s relationship...