Many Christians have been taught that spiritual maturity means becoming less and less ourselves. But Scripture paints a different picture. God isn’t trying to erase your humanity—he’s restoring it. The goal isn’t none of you; it’s all of you, renewed in Christ.
If you’re jumping onto this Parler thing for free speech reasons, you should take a good look at the kind of free speech that’s being displayed there. Fellow Christians: God does not grant us free speech—He requires us to take every thought captive to obey Christ. Spiritual warfare begins the moment a thought enters our…
I have had many friends over the years leave the church, not because of the difficult things Christ said or the ways in which He behaved, but because of the difficult things Christians say and the ways in which they behave. They were fine with Jesus, but they couldn’t associate themselves any longer with what…
In 2018 I released a book on the Bible’s perspective of spiritual gifts and the supernatural world called, The Rush and the Rest. In its opening pages I mentioned that there are already a million books on such topics, so why should I write one too? One of the things I thought might set mine…
I’ve seen a lot of “Jesus is on the throne” statements today. Just a reminder (as many others have already pointed out) that Satan has a throne too. The earth is a war zone between the two thrones, and though Jesus has already won the battle, he has not yet brought about the final end…
I have been sitting on a collection of thoughts for quite a few years now. And while it may be preferable to some (and perhaps even to myself) for me to keep my thoughts in my head, I feel it important as a pastor to say these things—and I perhaps feel convicted to say them…
I was caught off guard in college when a professor mentioned that the Kingdom of Heaven was Jesus’ favorite theme. “If he talked so much about it, why doesn’t anyone know more about what Heaven is like?” I wondered. And then I started paying attention to what the Bible actually said about the Kingdom of…
In Revelation 14, Jesus and 144,000 Christians are found standing in God’s presence on Mount Zion. They join God and the other spiritual beings of God’s Heavenly courtroom in singing a beautiful song. It’s there that an interesting note is made about the 144,000: “It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for…
One of the struggles many of us younger Christians have with the “pro-life” debate is not abortion—we agree that abortion is wrong. Our difficulty is that the term “pro-life” implies so much more to us from a Jesus perspective. If we are pro-life then we are:-Anti-abortion: We believe that all human life is in the…
When atrocities happen, conspiratorial Christians are often quick to point the finger at people groups and sins. Why don’t we ever point inward? God’s people are turned over to judgment all over the Bible for representing God poorly. It was their calling to bear God’s name and show the world with their words and actions…
Modern cosmology is obviously very different from ancient cosmology, as the ancients were not scientists. We know the earth is a spherical-shaped planet rotating in place while revolving around the sun. But for ancient-minded people, their conception of the earth was very different. In their minds, the earth was flat with a crystal snow-globe-like ceiling…
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