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?”
How to Be Productive According to the Bible
Kevin Halloran The Bible contains truth that applies to all of life and has a tremendous amount to say about how we live our lives and work our jobs. The Bible’s view of work and productivity is vastly different from our culture’s view...
In Praise of Hymns
CBS News If angels somehow descended on Midtown Manhattan, it might sound a little like the choir at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, who can make any hymn or anthem sound new -- even though some are a few centuries old. But if you think hymn writing's a lost art, you've never met the Gettys...
Religious Liberty Is Not Freedom from Ridicule
Russell Moore In recent weeks, we’ve seen an unprecedented and nasty turn in American culture against basic religious freedoms, freedoms that once were at the bedrock of the American consensus. In the years to come, we will be called upon to advocate for religious liberty and soul freedom for everyone, over and against a government and a media culture hostile to the very idea...
Jesus, Friend of Sinners: But How?
Kevin DeYoung As precious as this truth is—that Jesus is a friend of sinners—it, like every other precious truth in the Bible, needs to be safeguarded against doctrinal and ethical error. It is all too easy, and amazingly common, for Christians (or non-Christians) to take the general truth that Jesus was a friend of sinners and twist it all out of biblical recognition...
The Post-Indiana Future for Christians
Rod Dreher What prompted his reaching out to me? “I’m very worried,” he said, of events of the last week. “The constituency for religious liberty just isn’t there anymore.” Like me, what unnerved Prof. Kingsfield is not so much the details of the Indiana law, but the way the overculture treated the law...
Are People Who Aren't Christians Going to Hell? Is that Fair?
Tim Keller Are People Who Aren't Christians Going to Hell? Is that Fair?
7 Negative Effects of Porn
BJ Stockman This is a rather frank post on porn, so proceed or not with that in mind. Porn is a problem. It is a personal problem for many and a cultural problem for all. You may think that you have not been effected by porn, but you have because it is embedded in the surrounding culture...
4 Ways We Look to Food Instead of God
Tim Chester Before the fall, food was the way we expressed our obedience and trust in God. We obeyed God by eating from any tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. At the fall, food was the way we expressed our disobedience and mistrust of God...
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..."
2 Neglected Truths About Outreach
Rico Tice There are two fundamental truths about outreach that we must remember, and we must teach to one another. If we don’t, we—and our churches—will hold back from fulfilling our Lord’s Great Commission to “go and make disciples” (Matt. 28:20). Here’s the first truth:
A Sample Prayer Plan
Mike Riccardi I drafted a sample prayer plan some time ago to add structure to my own personal worship times. I’d like to share it with you not as something to be rigidly followed, but as a suggestion to help get you into—or back into—a thriving, regular, consistent time of worship and communion with God in prayer...
5 Things People Blame The Church For…But Shouldn’t
Carey Nieuwhof There’s a lot of church bashing that happens these days. I get that. Some of it is deserved. Like me, maybe you’ve noticed that a lot of people feel justified in dismissing the church as anything between a complete disappointment and otherwise useless...
God’s Word, God’s World, & Reverence
Eric Davis An insightful friend asked, “If we owe Scripture reverence because it proceeded from God, would this imply that we owe the same reverence to creation, as it also proceeded from God”? It’s a great question that needs answering, especially in our day. Both the Bible and creation did proceed from a perfect and holy God. So, which do we hold higher, if any, and why?
Why Salvation is Far From Some People
Don Whitney “Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes” (Psalm 119:155). One characteristic of those the Bible describes as “wicked” is that they do not seek God’s statutes, God’s Word...
Truth Decay: The Ethics of Lying
Clint Archer I once tried to visit Canada without lying. As a South African citizen I needed a visitor’s visa to set foot on their delightful tundra. I was vacationing in Michigan with a friend...