< 1 minuteSocial media, press media, and a myriad of irresponsible voices are complicating our efforts to make sense of life in the modern world. It’s wild …
HOW IS YOUR PANDEMIC PROGRESS?
3 min to readThe COVID-19 pandemic brings a global occasion to move from thorn-tree living to fruit-tree living (Jeremiah 17:5-9). Because God ordains all things to magnify His …
AIRPLANE BONEYARD
< 1 minuteI came across an incredible video article about the airline industry. During the COVID-19 pandemic, airlines grounded thousands of airplanes. Because maintenance needs remain, and atmospheric conditions may harm the giant machines, airlines must store planes in special places called “boneyards.”
UNITY IN DIVERSITY
2 min to readOur world needs unity in diversity. We need an answer to the question , “how can ‘the many’ diverse people be brought into ‘the one’ unified crowd?” It is the problem of the one and the many.
KEEP GOING FOR THE GOSPEL
< 1 minuteActs 28:22-24
Notice a handful of simple points:
LOVE: ANOTHER REASON TO JOIN A CHURCH
3 min to readThere are many good reasons to join a local church. But there is yet another: love. In this way, I do not mean just the Christian compulsion to love; to love other Christians. I am referring, instead, to our inability to love – our inability to love everyone with the same intensity and devotion.
EIGHT FACETS OF FAITHFUL PREACHING
2 min to readFaithfulness is multifaceted; there is much more to it than simply capturing the dominant thrust of the passage we are expounding, essential as that is. Faithful servants of God’s Word prove themselves to be faithful stewards of it when they:
NOTHING IN MY HAND I BRING
2 min to readPromoting helpful Christian reading is important part of the Church’s responsibility to promote the announcement of good news. This post aims to promote a well-written resource for those seeking to better understand the differences between Roman Catholic and Protestant beliefs.
PULSE
< 1 minuteWatching him made me ask, “am I watching me?”
STRUGGLING WITH SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES
6 min to readI imagine most church members would find it hard to believe their pastors struggle with practicing spiritual disciplines. If any group of people should excel at personal Bible reading and memorization, prayer, worship, evangelism, fasting, and a number of other important Christian exercises, it should be the shepherds. And yet, surprisingly, many pastors do in fact struggle to consistently practice them. In certain seasons of ministry, good and important ministry needs tend to crowd out the everyday disciplines of Bible study and prayer. The struggle is real.