Father’s Family Inheritance
True followers of Christ need to understand their identity, their calling, how to be equipped for their calling, and the power to fulfill their calling. The following is about all of these truths.
Why All Religions Cannot Point to God
A while ago I had a conversation with someone regarding Christianity. He told me that all the religions of the world were true and equally pointed to God, and that he thought it absurd and arrogant for anyone to think that their religion was the one true religion. To this I responded by telling him that the statement “there are no absolutes” is itself an absolute statement. Thus, he really did believe in absolutes (the person was stunned by this answer and had no reply). You see, it is impossible to escape from the concept of absolutism; it’s only a matter of what absolutes a particular person believes in.
How the Radical Grace Message Dismisses the Fear of God
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Understanding The Holy Spirit as the Teacher of the Church
Through the past 37 plus years of serving and believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, I have come to understand a very important truth. That the Holy Spirit is not only needed to heal the sick, preach with authority, and fill us with His fruits of the spirit, but to function as the greatest teacher and guide of the church.
How We Went from Theological to Therapeutic Preaching
There has been a growing trend among Evangelical pastors and churches over the past fifty years regarding the demise of theology and its subsequent replacement with psychology. (By theology I mean the serious systematic and orderly study of God.) There are numerous reasons for this, not the least of which is the failure of many seminaries to fully prepare potential pastors for the practical rigors and challenges of leading a local church, and that so many leaders find themselves burned out and unable to cope with all the pressures of the ministry and their personal lives.
Applying Four Primary Offices of Christ to the Kingdom, Church and Culture
The word of God teaches us that the Lord Jesus Christ stands in several primary offices: Priest, King, Prophet, and Apostle. This can be found in numerous passages but for now we will only cite a few passages.
Grace and the Consequences of Sin
My goal in this article is to make clear the difference between grace, which is God’s undeserved gracious actions and gifts towards us related to our salvation in Christ, and the consequences of sin that come from numerous sources and places.
Are Hurricanes and Natural Disasters God’s Judgment?
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Why the Gospel Includes Both Compassionate Outreach to the Poor and Pietism
The word of God is very clear regarding the call of believers to empower the disempowered and the disenfranchised of society.
Jesus opened up His ministry by reading from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, which is quoted in Luke 4:18, when He says the Spirit of the Lord has anointed Him to bring good news to the poor, heal the brokenhearted, and set at liberty those who are oppressed. Many evangelicals with an individualistic mindset have interpreted this merely as an individual salvific passage related to healing and deliverance. But when we read the context in Isaiah 61:1-4 we see that Jesus was also referring to systemic sin and God’s desire to bring cities to wholeness.
Does the gospel of Grace negate works?
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