John Bunyan believed that a muddy heart is better than a dusty heart. If you have ever read Pilgrims Progress you may remember that at one point, Christian was led into a parlor that was very dusty and a Sweeper began sweeping. The dust in the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God is a perfect being of unlimited glory. There is not a single aspect of God’s being that is not perfectly glorious, and God has not made a single mistake. He is without error and incapable of it. Yet it is not simply that he is without...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I could also ask if you are a tasty Christian, a shining Christian, or an audible Christian. Human senses are gifts allowing us to experience life with vibrancy. I am sure we all know somebody who has lost the use of one or more of their senses....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Suffering is hard. If you are reading this because of the title, then perhaps you are a Christian who is suffering right now. What you will read in here is no new strategy or miracle cure that will take your physical or emotional pain away. In...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
This is a lesson hard learned and this author is very much still learning it. It is the lesson that that is needed because we find ourselves leaning more toward punishing than peacemaking. Punishment is the easy road because it is where our...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When Matt Maher described his reason for writing the song “Lord, how I need you,” he talked of being inspired by the writings of C S Lewis. Lewis wrote of a type of love for God that is completely born out of our very great need for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I can answer this question for you. “No.” Honestly, how can any human on the face of the planet answer yes to this question? If we could answer yes, we would be sinless, or we would be lying. John tells us quite plainly that...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The most famous sermon in all of history was preached 2000 years ago by God who put on human flesh, being born of a virgin, living a sinless life, fully God and yet fully man, who walked up a mountain and opened his mouth Matthew gives us this...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
If fundamentalism were simply about holding to the fundamentals of the Christian faith, I would happily use this term for self-categorization. Sadly, the meanings of words have morphed with the development of movements. We have fundamentalism,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
If the term “common sense” doesn’t give you nostalgic sentiments about your childhood, then you did not have similar parents to mine. The term “common sense” was a common phrase in my childhood home. If, as a child,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
