“The Presbyterian Church in America is a pace-setting denomination within evangelicalism,” said CBMW President and Boyce College Professor Denny Burk. “I am grateful that they declared the Danvers Statement a faithful declaration of biblical conviction. This kind of clarity will serve their churches well. I’m also grateful that the PCA voted decisively to maintain its... Continue Reading

Perhaps Christians should stop thinking about retirement as simply leaving something behind. Instead, retirement should be viewed as the opporunity to be useful in new ways. Imagine entering retirement with decades of experience, financial stability, and newfound flexibility. Now, you don’t treat retirment as a season of vacation, but a time where your usefulness expands! ... Continue Reading

In an age where anyone can gain a large following online, we tend to look down on those with few followers. In our mega-church era, we can frown upon small churches in rural areas. Such thinking can lead us to despise the small things, even though the vast majority of us will never make the... Continue Reading

Whenever someone in real need crosses our path, we should respond with compassion and help as we would hope to be helped, even if that person isn’t someone we would typically choose to love.     I know you’re a deeply loving person. I see it week after week in the way you treat others.... Continue Reading

Let’s face it: it’s far easier to love “everybody” than it is to love a specific somebody standing next to you. Everybody won’t require anything from you, or have any expectations. Everybody won’t notice if you don’t feel like helping today, or if you’d rather not make the effort to talk. Everybody won’t mind. The... Continue Reading

If unbelief lies at the center of humanity’s relationship with God, then understanding unbelief becomes essential for understanding the human condition itself.   We live in an age of unprecedented knowledge and profound confusion. Never before in human history has information been so abundant, so accessible, and so immediate. Through the internet, social media, digital... Continue Reading

The gospel is much more than a ticket to heaven. And if we are to continue in the way we started—if we are to NOT move on from the gospel, it means that the gospel becomes, over time, the driving force behind every part of our lives.   The world’s fastest man, for the moment,... Continue Reading

As people who were formerly alienated from God and hostile in mind (Colossians 1:21-22), we need obedience and faith modeled to us. Those we’re discipling need that as well. They don’t just need us to tell them about Christ; they need us to show them Christ from the Word and from our lives.   Read:... Continue Reading

We reject our humanness (with its limits and weaknesses), but Jesus embraces it. He not only calls it “very good” in the beginning but shows us how it is good through taking on a body of His own.   The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. John 1:14 Admittedly, I’ve not spent... Continue Reading

You will not agree with every line, and Calvin would not have wanted you to take his word over Scripture’s. But you will rarely find a guide this wise and this warm, one so convinced that God is worth knowing.   John Calvin was born on July 10, 1509. Five centuries have passed and this... Continue Reading