christianity

A gospel culture requires us not to bank on our own importance or virtues, but to forsake self-assurance and exult together in Christ alone. This mental adjustment is not easy, but living in this kind of community is wonderful.

Rather, I mean that Scripture spends more time focused on the type of people we should be and less on the specifics of where and what we do.

The intentional father is deeply invested in discovering who his children are and how he can help them reach their redemptive potential. He seeks to understand the children God has given him and wants to form them into young persons who can fulfill their purpose. He sees parenting as central to his call before God and does it with all of his might.

These seven words in James 4:2 contain the answer to the poverty and powerlessness of the average Christian, of the average minister, and of the average church. “Why is it,” many Christians are asking, “that I make such poor progress in my Christian life? Why do I have so little victory over sin? Why do I win so few souls to Christ? Why do I grow s

French philosopher Blaise Pascal rightly remarked that the soul’s nature is so important that one must have lost all feeling not to care about the issue.

What’s the meaning of everything? What’s the telos, the aim, the macro reason and goal, for our small, ordinary lives? We are on solid footing, both biblically and historically, if we answer: “To glorify God.”

The first and main step of the stand that needs to be made starts on our knees every morning.

Praying regularly with others can be one of the most enriching adventures of your Christian life. Many of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying.

This does not mean that the lenses make the person or name of Jesus magically arise from the bushes of every biblical account. Rather, they enable us to see reflected aspects of divine character and human fallenness that provide or require the grace of God ultimately manifested in the person and work of Christ.