Why do we have such a hard time living among non-Christians and loving them into the kingdom? From Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Once a man has the love of Christ in his heart you need not train him to witness; he will do it. He will know the power, the constraint, the motive; everything is already there. It ...

When I began to write this post, I looked for a dozen passages in the Scriptures that Christians in the West largely ignored in practice, despite mentally assenting to the truths contained therein. But what scared me as I delved into this was that far too many passages of the Scriptures are simply i...

IAN FARR   A friend recently told me that one of the “greatâ€� preachers on one of the God channels had said, “So many Christians take a little bit of the Old Testament and a few bits of the New, put them together and make their own covenant.â€� The tragedy is that there is so much truth i...

an encore presentation What a powerful reminder below, from the pen of John Wycliffe, to "prove all things according to the Word of God." All matters of life and godliness ordered according to His truth (2 Peter 1:3-4); not according to our feelings, desires or whims. No genuine Christian would disp...

1. What is your church doing to deliberately make disciples? 2. What is your church doing to intentionally plant/reproduce new churches? 3. What is your church doing missions-wise to be His witnesses in your Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and ends of the earth? While I realize there is more to being the...

Every week there are a handful of people who request copies of the sermon notes, and a few who receive them by email. A West African commented that he’s putting them together to use as a ministry resource when he returns to Africa. The others are mostly Asians who speak English as a second lan...

...and that's what we're here to do." Those words are from my colleague, Pastor David Ritchie, during an outing of the new mobile food bank of Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio. Watch a local news report here. Also seen in the clip: colleague Pastor Janice Winters and Lutheran Social Services...

"Many of them just copy a letter from Rick Warren's book and send it out" was the summary sentence one pastor gave me when asked about church starts in his metropolitan area. Yes, he did mention some exceptions that are thriving. Those words set me to reflecting. Last Sunday in our Sun...

Neil Cole wrote the following baptism article entitled The Weirdness of the Church Over Baptism for Raw Religion. Christians who are not clergy are often times instructed by the church to disobey Jesus when they are not allowed to baptize their disciples. The practice of baptism is not something Chr...

In spite of the fact that it’s a favorite of children, Noah and the flood is one of the most horrible stories in human history. God intentionally wiped out the entire human race and all living creatures with the exception of Noah, his immediate family, and the animals they could get in the ark...