How Do We Follow the Bible Without Picking and Choosing?
I don’t follow everything that the Bible teaches. Neither do you. In fact, nobody follows everything in the Bible. Having said that, I care deeply about letting God speak authoritatively over my life, and one of my commitments as an evangelical Christian is to study…
Hope in Resurrection
My struggle over the years with the abuse has not so much been with the forgiveness aspect as much as it is how to live with it and what reconciliation should look like. A big part of my struggle has been my family’s “positive” outlook…
Fighting Sin
It's not time to rest yet. Most of us know the feeling of being all tied up inside. We get stuck in sin or just stuck in turmoil. And when we've tried to conquer something for a long time, it feels impossible to conquer it…
How to Lead Someone to Christ
The Bible asks us to believe—to appropriate Christ's finished work on the cross by trusting Him alone to save us. A woman seeking a divorce went before the judge. He asked, "On what grounds do you want a divorce?" She replied, "My husband and I own…
The Gift
God's plan for the world unfolds in the first few pages of the New Testament. We all like the idea of giving the perfect gift. But to find that gift, we need to take time in choosing it, and it needs to be timely. In…
What Is Your Heart Worship?
A look at what it means to sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. What does God's Word tell us are appropriate songs for church worship? Let's look at what two passages say about this. Where these guidelines stop is where we must then apply…