The enemy desires to find you asleep, weak in your faith, and unarmed for the day of battle. The Word of the Lord warns you that the time is now to wake up out of your sleep. Salvation is nearer than when you first believed. The night is almost done. The day is at hand.... Continue Reading

God doesn’t need to prove His existence to an atheist — He’s already done enough of it. But you need to know how to articulate the arguments for the existence of God, Christ’s resurrection, the empty tomb, and other apologetic topics. With that being said, let me explain what apologetics is not very briefly by... Continue Reading

You have to work to eat. You have to sow seeds. You have to wait. Then you have to reap and gather the fruit, or you will miss the opportunity, and starve. Fruit doesn’t gather itself—you have to go get it.  It’s the same spiritually. A soul doesn’t save itself—you have to go get it.  ... Continue Reading

You see, these humbling scenarios come in all sorts of designs and conditions and from every conceivable direction and yet, if we will obey this command to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God in the midst of what does not make any sense to us, we have this promise, “be humbled under the... Continue Reading

If you’re singing a hymn text in this style, you’re not really singing a hymn. You’re singing a pop worship song that happens to use old words. Those words may be good, but they aren’t being done in a style that unifies the congregation. They aren’t being done in a way that emphasizes the text.... Continue Reading

There will never be perfect peace on earth until the Lord returns. And yet the fact is that although the Gospel hasn’t fixed this world in the here and now, historians will testify that Christianity has made the world better for everyone with its teaching on the dignity of all human beings as bearing God’s... Continue Reading

Nevertheless, in our current context, I do not believe civil disobedience is warranted. I do so for a number of reasons. But at the forefront is that Christians have a duty laid out in scripture to obey the civil magistrate, even when we disagree with them, and even when it hurts us.   The Covid-19... Continue Reading

Though the winds of change blow around us, and though our affections for Christ ebb and flow, we find a resting place to which we return in the truth that Jesus is “the same yesertday, today, and forever” (Heb. 13:8). The same Jesus who calmed the winds and the waves with a word is the... Continue Reading

Without loving the cross, preaching the cross, singing of the cross, and living near the cross, our attempts at diversity — even so-called Christian diversity — will succumb to the splintering effects of the curse. Such attempts will try to unite around something, but that something will fail to bring our hearts in tune. The only... Continue Reading

Spurgeon reminds us that the minister must first develop an evangelistic culture within his church to have a church of soul winners. Spurgeon suggests that this evangelistic spirit can be cultivated in two ways. First, the pastor must set an example before his flock in the area of evangelism. Second, the pastor must be intentional... Continue Reading