There are times when a Christian in America today can feel like Lot in Sodom...when depressing news tempts us to despair, to tune it out, to withdraw from an evil world — but we must resist that temptation.

...Rapture timing is an important issue because various views of the rapture’s timing will change how Christians live out their faith and how the church ministers to the world. 

...It must be said that pastors don’t have authority in and of themselves. Any authority pastors have over you comes directly from God as it relates to his calling as an elder.

...Church scandals cut deeper than cultural scandals because they are a personal offense. Yet it is not the "double life" where the enemy sneaks in. It is in the ordinary. The reality is that we all have the same...

...Church planting is the goal of the Great Commission. Missionaries rarely achieve greater goals than what they aim for at the outset, and church planting, the most difficult of all jobs, should be their aim.

...The covenants that God entered into with mankindare twofold: conditional and unconditional.  Conditional covenants are contingent on obedience.  Unconditional covenants  rely solely upon God...

Words are weapons. They are either weapons used in the service of God and His kingdom—or they are weapons used in the service of the kingdom of this fallen and sinful world.

The Apostle Paul had a special relationship with the Ephesian church during his three missionary journeys. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians might have been his favorite to write.

The slaying of Charlie Kirk has shocked this generation, just as another tragedy shocked people in 1956. In January that year, Jim Elliot was speared to death by Auca warriors in Ecuador.

...Christian nationalism is a concern for the secular left and the religious right. The left worries that Christianity will pollute the public sphere, while the religious right worries that politics pollutes their religion.

It seems like everyone’s talking about loneliness these days...we need to realize that God wants us to be in community with other believers for his glory.

...An ordinary deed, done in response to Jesus’s goodness and for Jesus’s glory, matters enormously. Here’s some good news: You can practice this today.

Christianity and Marxism are not merely alternative theories about economics and governance; they are rival religions, resting on mutually exclusive claims about metaphysics, morality, and eschatology.

...Evangelicals, who do not talk about separation at all, nevertheless, practice it almost entirely in an unbiblical way.  This is something I call, “cold shoulder separation.” 

...The unbiblical mindset dominating our culture is the delusion that everyone else is the reason for my problems...It demands that everyone see the world through my eyes, affirm my feelings and perceptions...

At the memorial, as she quietly spoke the words, “I forgive him,” it rolled over the crowd like a tsunami...The appreciation and love for her and for Jesus was overwhelming. Her example will live on.

...Thousands of years after the fall, the left still commits the same sin Adam and Eve did. They want to be God. So, in their pursuit of being like Him, they rebel against their Creator in every way. 

...The only way to escape the hounding darkness of self-loathing is to accept our inability. We cannot even be “good people” who demonstrate true compassion for others. Even our best deeds are...