Hot Air has a lengthy montage of Jesus in grilled cheese sandwiches, sidewalks, rocks, ice cream, dirty laundry, Cheetos and more. Perhaps the reason why people see Jesus in all these wacky places is they’re desperately looking for Him and aren’t seeing him in us. When the so-called pros...

Some months ago my friends at Leadership Network invited Larry Osborne, Greg Surratt, and myself to meet with young pastors of growing, larger churches over the course of a few days in one of LN’s numerous learning communities. It was a great time, and even though I was supposed to be a mentor pas...

Tonight I read an opinion regarding the decline of Evangelical Christianity. The author, one who professes to be an evangelical, even describes his cyber world as a "post-evangelical wilderness." Is the world to become more antagonistic towards Evangelical Christianity? If you believe Scripture, it ...

Today I want to say a word about Christians and accountability groups or accountability partnerships. I am not sure if Christians have always spoken as much of accountability as we do today or if this has been a happy result of organizations such as Promise Keepers. I guess I have not been an adult ...

I just placed a neatly folded piece of paper beside my laptop. It is there to help frame my thoughts as I compose these lines. Before I tell you about this little card, I’d like to share a few of the lines inscribed on the inside. They are: What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does ...

I have a confession to make. I was rather pleased recently when someone wrote to me and told me how impressed he was with my theological ability. He even called me a theologian. I think it was that which really massaged my ego. But isn’t that odd? We’ve turned the task of theology over to academ...

If I were Satan and trying to think up the best possible way to help people reject Christianity, I think I’d con Christians into thinking that labeling themselves with a cheesy button was a better and more effective way to show the love of Christ than, you know, actually getting involved in pe...

(-Picture by Getty Images via Daylife) Former Prime Minister Tony Blair recently spoke out about his faith and his concerns that Christianity is being marginalized in the increasingly secular UK. He is proposing that it is time for Christians to speak out in support of their faith. He admits that as...

(continued from Part 1) The Gray Zone There is a “gray zone� between cultural practices that deny the deity of God and those that explicitly affirm it. This gray zone must be made clear, because the health and vitality of the church depends upon it. Cultural healing and spiritualism have a stron...

The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards is the second in the series of 'a long line of Godly men' profiles by Steven J. Lawson. The first was of Calvin, and more are promised in this spin off from the 'Foundations of Grace' series he's also working on. As far as design goes it's really hard to be...