If someone asked you what the greatest intellectual challenge to the Christian faith is for young Christians who really care about their faith, how would you answer? Atheism? Actually, no. While the spate of diatribes by new atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam...
Guest Post from Ray Jones, Pastor of Lighthouse Community Baptist Church, Pawcatuck, CT, and frequent religion writer in Southeastern Connecticut. Every day, my wife and I pray with each of our four children before they leave for school. Some days, we simply ask God...
How radical was Jesus’ preaching to Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand? Imagine what it would be like, in Britain or the United States today, if, without an election or any other official mechanism for changing the government, someone were to go on...
David’s lament for his friend Jonathan stands as one of the most touching expressions of grief for a friend in all of ancient literature. Read these selected verses from 2 Samuel 1 to feel the intense sorrow of one friend for another. 19 “Your glory, O Israel,...
It seems that in the American evangelical world, we know very little about lament. We much prefer the happy sayings and the happy songs. We like things to be tied up nicely and neatly. We prefer our theology to be bite-sized; slogans that fit easily on a tee-shirt...
Many of the differences in the various evangelical denominations and flavors of Christianity in the world exist because of conflicting views of the early church in the Book of Acts. Pentecostals and Charismatics understand the gifts of tongues, healing, and miracles...
