Holiness As Assurance
How does holy living impact our assurances? I give three ways that living holy can help us, and others, grow more confident in our salvation.
4 Ways to Prepare Students for College
There is still time to prepare your student. There is still time to equip them before they go off, only to come home with a bag full of dirty laundry and needing a home-cooked meal. From April to August, there is time to ready your student.
Students Need Expository Preaching
Students need Expository Preaching. Why? I give you three reasons in this week’s article for Student Pastors to preach Expository sermons.
Essential Spiritual Skills Students Need
Christians Sing the Song of Hope
Because of sin, man dwells in a wrecked world, but not one without worship or song. Man sings to things, like the Kaua’i ōō that will never hear, never respond, and never arrive.
The Respect for Marriage Act - A Pastor’s Response
Whether in writing or in desire, the goal of the Defense for Marriage Act is to begin stripping away the rights of religious individuals, their places of worship, and their subsequent non-profit organizations.
Christianity on the Fringe?
The Church in her nearly two-thousand-year-long history, after the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, has typically been maligned, mistreated, shamed, and often persecuted. In fact, persecution of the Church of Jesus Christ has been the norm rather than the outlier.
A Ringing in the Ears.
The Christian’s ears have been made new to hear the glorious sound of the gospel and mighty works of God. The Christian’s eyes have been opened to behold the glory of Christ, and the Christian’s mind has been renewed to know God and all that he is.
The Mines of Moria, the Heart of Man
As the dwarves became zealous for all that glittered and gleaned, they dug too deeply – man too is just as guilty, and it led to utter destruction. What lies deep in the heart of sinful man has run amuck through every corridor and crevice.
Where have all the White-Knights gone?
When the modern woman looks along the horizon, it appears to be that Camelot has been bankrupted and robbed of her brave and shining knights. It seems that all the “good ones” are taken!
Lip-Synched Worship
Too many Christians today are lip-synching to the sounds of faith and acts of obedience, and refuse to join in the grand chorus that proclaims the greatness of God. Lip-synched worship is the act of cheapening the grace that God has given the believer by imitating and copying another’s worship.