"I think one of the things that I'm changing in my own thinking is I just think people - myself included - it's so easy to latch on to a formula. You know, you do these things and you'll be great. You'll be safe and you'll be protected and you'll be whatever.....I just don't think that's the way life works. - Joshua Harris

We couldn't

Early in my Christian life I heard someone say, "The Bible was not given to increase your knowledge but to guide your conduct." Later I came to realize that this statement was simplistic at best and erroneous at worst. The Bible is far more than a rulebook to follow. Evangelicals commonly think today that the gospel is only for unbelievers. Once

Shortly after the Reformation began, in the first few years after Martin Luther posted the Ninety-Five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg, he issued some short booklets on a variety of subjects. One of the most provocative was titled The Babylonian Captivity of the Church...I've often wondered if Luther were alive today and came to our

There is a better way to read and hear them [the four gospels]...What should this way of reading the Gospels do to us? First, it ought to cause us to read the Gospels with more urgency, for the king has come and His kingdom is at hand. - Daniel Hyde

How have you been taught to read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? Simply instructions for how to live?

We grew

 It seems incredible that it could happen. Only a generation after Joshua, Israel no longer knew the Lord. How is such a development possible? - W. Robert Godfrey

The American church is in serious trouble. Will we learn from Scripture what to avoid and what to pursue? Or continue to ignore it as we have been?

Our greatest need, as we walk through the wilderness of this present age, is to see what the Apostle John saw on the Isle of Patmos — a glimpse of the glory of God...Yet... we want to connect with the congregation, don’t we? - Bernie van Eyk

Many of the churches we used to attend, like Lifechurch, were not sensitive to God in their

I’m always puzzled when I see church billboards announcing a coming revival. They give the times and the dates when the church will be engaged in revival. But I wonder, how can anybody possibly schedule a revival? - R C Sproul

Have you ever really paused................................ to consider what real revival is? There is a

Several years ago, a mainline theologian told me of his experience at an evangelical megachurch...There was no greeting from God or sense that this was God's gathering. - Michael Horton

Have you been constantly told, from the pulpit, how to make more behavioral changes, along with a 1 minute (if that) gospel-tidbit at the end directed toward

Our goal is to take a step back and address the subject of politics and government more broadly. The biblical principles we will discuss transcend American politics – they are true whether someone lives in a democracy or a monarchy or a dictatorship. They are timeless realities from God’s Word – and while it

Name-calling often ensues when someone in the church believes that another has said or done something that cuts across Christian liberty. - Nicholas Batzig

Have you ever heard someone say something, or seen someone do something, that, in your opinion was unBiblical? Next time that happens, here's something to think about.

In Christianity, legalism is the excessive and improper use of the law (10 commandments, holiness laws, etc). Moralism has different meanings, but in relation to Christianity it is the practice of keeping various moral laws so as to please God and obtain and/or maintain one's salvation. - Matt Slick

Just to make sure we understand, Matt Slick at

It has been thought that surely law might make men love holiness, albeit experience and observation prove that it never has that effect. - Charles Spurgeon

I (Vince) have seen this first-hand, being greatly involved in two different extremely moral-driven organizations while growing up. It can, and has (as I've seen in people), caused the

"The word religion has fallen on hard times in recent years. Many have tried to pit religion against faith, saying that Christianity isn’t a religion but a relationship. That sounds nice, but that isn’t quite the case...When we speak of such religion, we are either speaking of all the false religions of the world, such as Islam and

One of the most amazing statements by the Apostle Paul is his indictment of the Galatian Christians for abandoning the Gospel. “I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel,” Paul declared...In our own day — and in our own churches — we desperately need to

 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.” - Matthew 21:12-13

Unfortunately,

Now, post-conversion, these two worlds collide. And they collide hard.

Jesus is clear that if a person of this world is to be accepted into this other kingdom - the kingdom of heaven - he must be converted. - Steven Lawson

 Are you converted? Before you answer that question, seriously consider Steve Lawson's words here.

"Sure, I know how a testimony is supposed to go. It begins with good intentions, introduces a point where major drama entered our lives, and ends with how we overcame the odds, giving all the glory to God, of course...so I decided to gear my testimony with an angle explaining how I was led to write about the kind of mentality we see in the

"...either Furtick doesn’t know or doesn’t care what it means to be biblically qualified." - Cameron Buettel

A little while ago, we shared a video from Steven Furtick about being Unqualified. This is something additional for you to consider in regards to Furtick's severe misunderstanding of the pastoral position.

Sadly, many American pastors don't have this mindset, nor do they preach about it.  

I have heard some very Godly men say that if they had to lose the entire Bible and could pick only one passage, this is the pasage they would hold, because in this passage holds the very salvation of man. - Paul Washer

Hint: It's not John 3:16

Most diners and restaurants across the country can serve you fried chicken, but only KFC has the Colonel’s original recipe of eleven herbs and spices. The same goes for other brand names you recognize—Coca Cola and Krispy Kreme stand out from their competitors because of the uniqueness of their products...But what if you’re not

Throughout the centuries, pastors have tried to understand what God is doing in their congregations. Sometimes, there have been periods of dryness and deadness when there has seemed to be little interest in God’s Word, even among those who claim to be Christians. - Sean Michael Lucas

Masses of churches rely on big revival meetings to produce

Unannounced and mostly undetected there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles. It is like the old cross, but different: the likenesses are superficial; the differences, fundamental. - A