Has Our Passion for the Cross Inadvertently De-Emphasized the Second Coming?
Bible-preaching churches today rightly focus on the cross. The gospel is central to all that we do. We look back and remember Jesus’ death and …
How Healthy is Your Marriage? 20 Diagnostic Questions
How healthy is your marriage? I recently gave a marriage health survey with the following questions to the young couples in our church. Answers to …
A Way for Good Reads to Keep Speaking: Readwise
All of us are aware of the sheer volume of resources available to us. There are so many excellent books and blog articles to choose …
Strengthened by God’s Love and Peace
The prophet Daniel saw many mighty works of God on the behalf of himself, his friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, works performed before the greatest …
What Happened to Prayer Meeting?
No smoking gun for the demise of the weekly prayer meeting can be found. That Wednesday tradition is simply fading off the scene in much …
Godly Men Who Died Young
Conclusions God could have prolonged the lives of any or all of these men, but He was pleased to allow their lives to have what …
Theological Traps That Hinder Evangelism
A trap is something you fall into because you don’t realize it’s there. Theological traps are errors in thinking about God and His ways that …
A Postmortem on the PM Service
The handwriting was already on the wall before the pandemic killed it. Attendance at the evening service of a typical Bible-preaching church in America has …
Interpretation: Step 2 in Bible Study
Interpretation is the process of understanding 1) what a Biblical text means and 2) how the text was meant to be applied. Once you have gathered …
How Older Christians Encourage Younger Generations for Christ
A quick Google search of “the Psalm of the Aged Man” immediately pulls up Psalm 71. This Psalm is also called the “Prayer of the …