I’d rather be a godly administrator than an ungodly minister
God looks on the heart and not the outward appearance
You spend your week filing papers, printing reports, chasing up bad debts, putting stamps on envelopes. Then you go to church on Sunday and you see a man leading hundreds in worship and prayer, and preaching inspiring sermons. It’s pretty obvious who’s pleasing God most isn’t it? Is it? Not so fast. God looks on... Continue Reading
Blooming Where God Plants Me
Every Christian has a calling, i.e., a life God has providentially guided you to and graciously equipped you for.
God’s Word is the main instruction manual for fulfilling any calling. There are not many specifics about a woman married to a pastor. However, the Bible is filled with ways to please God. For example, Christians are to practice hospitality, which has a specific application for an elder and, by inference, his wife. In I... Continue Reading
Where Are You?
God's gracious words to Adam and Eve
When he asked that glorious question, God already knew where Adam and Eve were. He also knew where he was going to take them. As they fearfully hid from God, Adam and Eve knew God was holy. But after he pursued them, they learned of his grace and of his justice. They never could have... Continue Reading
Satan’s Strategy to Destroy Your Marriage Before it Begins
One of Satan’s most effective strategies to corrupt the Gospel portraying union of marriage is to attack couples before they say “I do” through sexual sin
There is a world of difference between pre-marital sex and sex within marriage. One of the reasons for this is that in pre-marital sex the forbidden fruit of lust portrays sex as something that it isn’t always in marriage. Most normally, pre-marital sexual activity is like gas on fire. The passion is high, the feelings... Continue Reading
Don’t Rip “God is Love” Out of Context
Those who abuse this truth do so because they also ignore God’s other attributes, like His holiness
For instance, those seeking to have adulterous relationships often use this passage about God since at the heart of their adultery is their own view of what love is. They live by the premise that if you can quote one verse in the Bible proving that God is a loving God, therefore He must not... Continue Reading
Morning-after Pill: Human Trafficking’s Best Friend?
FDA approves "morning-after pill" for teens as young as 15, without parental consent, and without a prescription
According the the Polaris Project, there are approximately 100,000 underage young people in the US who are considered sex slaves. The majority are young teens. One of the biggest obstacles to helping these children is that they are isolated. They often have no access to phones or computers and are emotionally and physically abused when... Continue Reading
The New Legalism: Missional, Radical, Narcissistic, and Shamed
Being a “radical,” “missional,” Christian is slowly becoming the “new legalism”
Missional, radical Christianity could easily be called “the new legalism.” A few decades ago, an entire generation of Baby Boomers walked away from traditional churches to escape the legalistic moralism of “being good” but what their Millennial children received in exchange, in an individualistic American Christian culture, was shamed-driven pressure to be awesome and extraordinary... Continue Reading
Ronald Reagan: Same-Sex Marriage Advocate?
"Patti Davis says Reagan wouldn't have opposed gay marriage; not so fast
Reagan was silent on same-sex marriage, as was everyone of his generation. He, like all liberals of his time, could not have conceived of same-sex marriage, and he, like the entirety of the Democratic Party just a decade or two ago, unwaveringly supported traditional marriage. Let’s leave it at that. Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan’s... Continue Reading
Idolatry is Robbery and Perversion
Idolatry is anything that sits in God’s chair.
Many Christians do not have a working theology of idolatry. We tend to think of idolatry as a carved figurine of wood or porcelain; something we bow down before, light incense to, or regard with some various forms of mystical power. … So often this elevation to worship of created things is not even the “bad... Continue Reading
What if Life Was Complex?
The bleak and disturbing future of the "Evangelical Industrial Complex"
The key books on pastoral ministry would be written by men who either have no real experience of anything approaching normal pastoral ministry or have not had such for decades. Students at seminaries would rarely, if ever, name their own pastors as the most influential preachers in their lives. Multi-site video churches would spring up,... Continue Reading
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