The Number One Reason Missionaries Go Home
Regretfully, the number one reason is due to conflict with other missionaries.
From my own personal experience on the field and after five years training, equipping, and sending missionaries, I have witnessed this truth firsthand. In all my travels around the world, I’ve spent countless days with missionary teams of all types, sizes, and makeups and one reality remains true: none of them are perfect. The... Continue Reading
We Actually Don’t Need a Trinitarian Revival
Attempts to teach a ‘better’ understanding of the Trinity may do more harm than good.
Christians should be saying the right things about the triune God, feeling properly-formed feelings of responsive devotion and worship, and behaving as those who believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But whenever the church or its teachers underperform in one of these areas (and “we all stumble in many ways,” as James 3:2... Continue Reading
Healing a House Divided: An Interview with Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
"The essence of sin is separation."
Bishop Curry was elected to be the 27th presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church in 2015, becoming the first African American leader of the denomination. Before his installation, he served as bishop of the diocese of North Carolina for 15 years, and previously he served as a pastor in North Carolina, Ohio, and... Continue Reading
How Real Books have Trumped Ebooks
The digital revolution was expected to kill traditional publishing. But print books are ever more beautifully designed and lovingly cherished.
After reaching a peak in 2014, sales of e-readers and ebooks have slowed and hardback sales have surged. The latest figures from the Publishing Association showed ebook sales falling 17% in 2016, with an 8% rise in their physical counterparts. At the same time, publishers’ production values have soared and bookshops have begun to fill... Continue Reading
Rightly Regarding Our Sin
Without the bad news about sin, Satan, and spiritual death, the good news is superfluous at best.
It is certainly true that sin, Satan, and spiritual death are among society’s dirty words, and you dare not speak them in polite company lest you incur the wrath of the most outspoken, self-appointed, religiously correct person present. To the gospel’s great misfortune, if it could know such misfortune, many in our churches have fallen... Continue Reading
Sola Scriptura: A Brief Historical Summary of the Seige Against Scripture
"Did God really say...?"
The doctrine of Sola Scriptura is a doctrine that has been under siege since the beginning of history and has continually been a main target for Satan’s lies and schemes. But we who follow Christ and live in submission to His living and active word alone, we continue to read and love and fear His word so... Continue Reading
Getting to the Very Core of Pastoral Ministry
If you long to be in pastoral ministry, the starting place is the gospel.
The gospel is at the very heart of pastoral ministry. You cannot have true ministry without having the gospel at the very core. This means that the call to ministry is a call to gospel work. The gospel is absolutely essential to the role of pastor. Imagine that you want to purchase a new,... Continue Reading
Dramatic Fall of Christianity in UK Continues
26 Christians Abandon Faith for Every One New Convert
As a whole, the non-Christian religious population more than quadrupled since its 2 percent share in 1983, rising to 8.4 percent in 2015. The study found that Muslims have been the main source of growth, growing from 0.6 percent to 3.9 percent in the same time period, though Hindus now also make up 2 percent... Continue Reading
Six Things You Need to Know About God’s Wrath
The hope for sinners is that between us and the wrath of God stands the cross of Jesus.
This theme of the wrath (or anger) of God toward sin and sinners is clearly and widely taught in the Bible. This truth is so interwoven with the hope of our peace with one another and with God that if we lose our grasp on the one, we lose our hope of the other. ... Continue Reading
The Uncomfortable Subject Jesus Addressed More than Anyone Else
If we don’t accept the reality of hell, we won’t rightly understand the glory of the gospel.
A friend once challenged me to show her where Jesus talks about hell in the Gospels. Even a cursory read-through shows Jesus talked about it plenty. In fact, Jesus talked about hell more than any other person in the Bible. In Luke 16, he describes a great chasm over which “none may cross from there... Continue Reading
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