christianity

PRACTICE listening to understand. Think of someone in your sphere of influence who is not close to Jesus. Make plans to have coffee or a meal with that person this week, and during your time together ask, “Who do you think Jesus is?” Set aside your agenda. Surrender your need to be right. Do not refute or challenge any answer. Repeat back what you

Here are some examples of application-oriented questions that can help you become a doer of God’s Word: Does this text reveal something I should believe about God? Does this text reveal something I should praise or thank or trust God for? Does this text reveal something I should pray about for myself or others? Does this text reveal something I

Van Til argues that in Genesis 3, Satan tempts Eve to be a rationalist, but in so doing he puts her in an ultimately irrational position

Sons need fathers who are involved in their lives—dads who will love them, teach them, and discipline them. But clearly, sons also need a masculine vision. They need a manhood language. They need a ceremony. And they need other men.

There is far too much glancing Christianity—no reading of the Bible beyond vibey images shared on Instagram, only shout-out prayers before a meal, and shallow thoughts of God pretending to be deep. The Bible invites us to drink in the beauty of God.

Beauty. This doesn’t mean romance or physical attractiveness in the way our culture thinks of beauty

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.

A proposition condenses a sermon’s content. Since expository sermons answer What does the text mean? and So what? the propositions that encapsulate a message should also show what is true and what to do. This is accomplished formally by wedding a universal truth to an application. Informal alternatives are too numerous to discuss, but proposition

Paul’s method in Athens is instructive. He understood the culture and employed that knowledge to identify a starting point for building a bridge to the gospel.

Will (Spirit, Heart) Volition, or choice, is the exercise of will, the capacity of the person to originate things and events that would not otherwise be or occur. By ?originate? here we mean to include two of the things most prized in human life: ... freedom and creativity. These are really two aspects of the same thing when properly understood,