If you’re going to stay sane, thankful, motivated, and hopeful, you must live with your final destination in view. Only here will you be protected by the right values, balanced by proper expectations, and motivated by sturdy hope. Consider seven effects that functional eternity amnesia can have on your everyday life:… Life is a struggle.... Continue Reading

All of these considerations leave us with a rather counter-intuitive conclusion—at least from the perspective of modern critical scholarship—namely that John’s gospel actually contains clearer historiographical credentials than the Synoptics.  After all the hits that John’s gospel has taken over the years, this is remarkable fact. Over the years, biblical scholars have challenged the historicity... Continue Reading

The hardest part about fighting these temptations is that we often don’t feel like we want escape in the moment. Don’t be surprised. Remember. Fighting temptation means trusting promises over perceptions. “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). Follow the promises of truth, not the appetites of error.... Continue Reading

Short of Dr. Russell Moore, the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, there are virtually no evangelical voices speaking to broader life issues beyond abortion in our “brave new world.” Christians of all denominations need to refine, articulate, and live out their beliefs about life, sexuality, and marriage. Abortion... Continue Reading

If you feel discouraged because your life doesn’t seem very epic for the Lord, maybe you need to redefine your understanding of “epic”. All service to Lord is epic. Serving your children can be epic. Cleaning the bathroom can be epic. Creating a spreadsheet can be epic. Every day of the Christian life is meant... Continue Reading

I have never been convinced by the Madonna-Paglia argument that pornography liberates and empowers women; but one does not have to agree with that argument to see that pornography has been normalized in society.  When one reflects on this, it is hardly surprising: the detachment of sexual gratification from committed, monogamous heterosexual relationships happened a... Continue Reading

Confessing faults we don’t really see, just to get people off our backs, is duplicitous. Confessing sins that aren’t really sins is the sign of a conscience gone awry. And confessing the mistakes and moral blindness of others usually amounts to tendentious manipulation. It may be from the best of intentions (or it may not),... Continue Reading

My desire here is not to defend evangelicalism, but to question millennials and their claims. Their mere rejection of a dysfunctional form of Church does not of itself put millennials in any position to present us with a better alternative. Without a deeper understanding of our generation, its characteristic sins, blindspots and failings, and a... Continue Reading

Brett McCracken has authored two interesting books. In 2010 he released,Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide and just recently Grey Matters: Navigating the Space Between Legalism and Liberty. Your first book Hipster Christianity took issue with the evangelical church’s obsession with being relevant. It’s interesting that Millennials seem to hold two things in tension: they don’t like being... Continue Reading

But what about impacting the kingdom of God? What about having famous people use their gigantic platform to woo people to Jesus? While it’s not inherently wrong to attain fame or to gain thousands of followers, it is shortsighted to think that only famous people can “make Jesus famous.”     The notion of Christian... Continue Reading