Preparing Yourself to Share the Gospel with Muslims
With Muslims present in every country in the world, including yours and mine, it may be wise for us to be well prepared to share the gospel with them.
Ibrahim is a Professor of Islamic Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Director of Jenkins Center for the Christian Understanding of Islam. Having been born and raised in Egypt, he has first-hand experience with Islam and access to the Arabic language. This makes him especially qualified and his books especially effective. There are... Continue Reading
Facing Weariness
If our sights are on our Savior, we will have the stamina to press ahead and the joy to keep going.
Our circumstances may be hard, and our temptations are perhaps strong. Yet we must not put up the white flag. We are to keep fighting the good fight. How? By meditating on our loving Savior, who endured hostility and died to make the foulest clean. We persevere by thinking on Christ, and how He absorbed... Continue Reading
The Prayer Life of Stonewall Jackson
As Jackson grew older and matured in the faith, those who knew Jackson best realized that he never decided his daily affairs without seeking the Lord.
It was the General’s dream to have a Christian praying army. While such a notion was not possible, we can only awe in reverence to the idea. Imagine the sight of an opposing army committed and engaged in prayer, ready to battle its enemy forces. Such a thought should tremble our souls and provide comfort... Continue Reading
3 Outcomes of Thinking
The goal is not to simply come out with “an answer”, but to actually have a defense for why that answer is true or why it will work.
For difficult passages and theological questions, don’t be afraid to take some time to prayerfully think it through. Be okay with leaving a text saying “I don’t know. I need to think about that more.” Rushing to a conclusion might make you feel better, but you might be missing something that you could have observed if you... Continue Reading
Grace is the Main Theme of the Bible
Grace permeates the Bible, covering it like the waters cover the ocean.
Understanding that grace is the main theme of the Bible changes our entire approach to it. It motivates us to seek it out, frees us to receive God’s words—even the hard ones—and motivates us to live for him in all aspects of our life. Only grace truly motivates because only grace truly frees. And grace—praise... Continue Reading
Decent and Orderly Corporate Worship
Corporate worship is the method through which God takes people—from the smallest child to the most seasoned adult—and creates mature worshipers through the means that he has ordained.
Corporate worship is corporate worship, not individual worship. Corporate worship is for believers, not unbelievers. Corporate worship has the primary purpose of edification, not merely expression. Corporate worship accomplishes edification through order, not disorder. Corporate worship should be biblically-regulated, not unregulated. And if we do follow these principles as we approach our corporate worship as a church, then our relationship... Continue Reading
Prayer and Gossip?
Be mindful that your prayers are genuine and not a platform for gossip and malicious talk.
All too often public prayers are not a genuine venue for offering up our desires and needs before our covenant Lord but a platform for gossip. A good rule of thumb is, if you’re praying for someone, how might your prayer change if they were sitting next to you? As a pastor I always... Continue Reading
In Praise of Patience
“The grist of God grinds slowly – but it grinds exceedingly fine.”
The story unfolding in culture these days often seems uneven, tragic, and even hopeless at times. As believers, though, we know that however upside-down and inside-out it may all seem, the end of the story has yet to be told. Be patient. Growing up, our kitchen bulletin board across from the refrigerator was filled with... Continue Reading
Hurricane Hilary and Our Culture of Fear
One doesn’t have to look far to finds tracts and treatises of past theologians who wrote about God’s use of calamity and destruction to awaken people to repentance.
The last thing Hurricane Hilary saw, however, was people desiring to come to church. People were more interested in saving their lives by gathering in long lines for food and water. It was all reminiscent of the same fear that governed the Covid-19 pandemic. In the 90s, David Wells expressed that one of the great problems... Continue Reading
Why Some Evangelicals Are Embracing Racism
Satan is cunning and able to deceive conservative protestants into embracing Kinism.
Sin is sin, on the right or the left. Kinism is just as evil as critical race theory. So Kinists are not our allies. They’re just as opposed to Biblical views on race as critical race theorists. Just as leftists use America’s history with white supremacy to justify anti-white racism, some “evangelicals” are using... Continue Reading
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