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Christianity
What Can I Do?
What can I do? I don’t have a large platform to reach the masses. I don’t even have a small platform. I don’t have incredible spiritual giftings. I’m not even…
Christianity
Mixed Feelings
I am confused. My heart is full of joy and full of sorrow. I feel the entanglement of my sin running through me like a fast-growing vine, yet I feel…
Christianity
Time to Rejoice, Pray, Discern, and Proclaim
It is time to rejoice. It is hard to believe that God has broadcast the gospel to a hundred million people—including some of the most powerful people in the world.…
Christianity
A Better Resting Place
If God promised Abraham the land of Israel as an everlasting possession (Gen. 17:8), then the land of Cannan was not the land God had in mind. One, Abraham never…
Christianity
What Love Is This?
Perfect love—Can it Be? Can love even exist in an evil world full of darkness, hate, and selfishness? Who among us is even worthy of love? Are we not thoroughly…
Christianity
A CAUTIONARY TALE
I wonder if Demas decided to leave the ministry in his pursuit of the world in a moment or if it was a slow, gradual decision. Demas had once been…
Christianity
THE BEST IS YET TO COME
We have been born again unto a living hope, for we have been given an eternal “inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven” (1 Pet.1:4). What kindness…
Bible Study
How to Determine Whether a Practice Is Biblical
Given the current cultural milieu, in which pluralism and relativism are becoming ever rampant problems, many Christians and churches struggle with how to apply the Bible to the many issues…
Christianity
On Mocking John Piper
A clip from a recent address by John Piper from the live-streamed T4G conference has emerged and stirred quite the controversy on Twitter (surprise!). You can view it here. “Complementarianism…
Christianity
Why the Shelter-in-Place Order Does Not Equal Persecution of the Church
I have seen a few articles recently decrying the idea that the shelter-in-place mandate has shown that the American church has crumbled under persecution because the government is asking the…
Christianity
Responding to Franklin Graham’s Fox News Commercial
While watching the Fox News Channel last week in an endeavor to keep up on the latest coronavirus updates, I repeatedly saw a commercial with Franklin Graham on behalf of…
Christianity
Of Bible Reading and Theological Formulation
Throughout my years as a believer, I have been told and taught that when one reads or studies the Bible that one should not come with any preconceived theology in…