A WORLD IN DISARRAY Lots of us are overwhelmed by what’s going on in the world today. There’s war between Israel and Iran, and between Russia and Ukraine. Syria recently had a massacre of Christians reported. Related Christian atrocities are happening in other parts of the world. There’s the conversation about the “Globalists” or the… Read More End Times, AI & Works-Based Salvation: How Faith Fights a Darkening World
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION We all ask good questions. Sometimes we just don’t ask the right one, and the answer we need gets lost without us realizing we missed the mark. Many people today live their lives very casually. They mind their business, some smile at strangers, and others even help the needy bystander for… Read More Do You REALLY Need Jesus If You’re a Good Person?
FOR STARTERS The distorted and damaging lies about Jesus that convince nonbelievers to reject the free gift of salvation through the grace of God are reasons in themselves to write passionately about the truth of Christianity. Spiritual rebirth (which occurs by faith in Christ leading to receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit through water… Read More Stumbling On the Path of Discovering the Truth of God: The Choice Which Matters Most
It’s impossible to be a Christian and not clothe ourselves with Christ (Romans 13:14). Many call themselves Christians, but few choose to be “buried” in Christ (Romans 6:4) by leaning into what it means to deny ourselves the way Jesus commands us to (Matthew 16:24). His blood cleanses our conscience of our sins and washes… Read More Putting On Christ: Radical Preparation for Eternity
REBORN BY A PRIVATE CHOICE By itself, being raised going to church doesn’t make any person a Christian. A Christian isn’t defined by church attendance. A Christ-follower is any person whose heart has been reborn by choosing Jesus as Lord, through faith; a private choice they make in their heart, which becomes the choice they… Read More Candid & Necessary: What Does It Really Mean to Be Raised in the Church?
EVERYTHING IS NOT OKAY We can’t keep lying to ourselves saying everything’s okay. Not everything’s okay. And that’s the truth, isn’t it? It’s okay to not be okay. What’s not okay about not being okay is staying there. We can’t stay in the ‘not okay’ place inside ourselves forever. It’s a season. Seasons come and… Read More Short & Intentional: May Today Be the Day We Truly Lived
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS One of the reasons I feel compelled to stay at my full-time job at a retail store for the short-term is due to how many encounters I have with people holding a variety of spiritually ambiguous beliefs, who seem intrigued by what I have to say about the Christian faith. MISLEADING, UNBIBLICAL BELIEFS… Read More Risking Our Lives to Be Wrong About Eternity
This is for someone out there. I hope it’s you. UNTAMED, INCORRUPTIBLE WORD OF GOD There’s a lot of spiritual backfiring going on in the world today. As a fellow brother Christ-follower, I’m here to remind you: don’t give up the faith. The devil loves to bark loud to scare off the sheep, but the… Read More Encouragement in These Hostile Times
CHALLENGING PASSAGES Sometimes, it’s the most challenging passages of Scripture that are most pertinent for our spiritual growth. Sometimes, we need to read the hard stuff to understand why Psalm 119:130 says that the Word gives understanding even to the child. Some translations read that it gives understanding to the “inexperienced.” If we don’t open… Read More Persecuted, Hated, & Oppressed for His Name’s Sake… Blessed Are You
ORGANIZATION OF MANIPULATORS There are people today who believe the deity of Jesus is a myth designed to keep people morally disciplined in a corrupt world, and that the church itself is just an organization of manipulators aiming to make money off people with broken or damaged consciences. I sense this skepticism was generated by… Read More Confronting Church Wounds: The Judgment of a Seat Warmer
