"Part of the problem in contemporary Christianity, I believe, is that talk about freedom of the Spirit, about the grace which sweeps us...

“God…is the creator; he has no interest in leaving earth to rot and making do for all eternity with only half of the original creation....

I recently decided to examine the sermons found in the Book of Acts and compare them with how we “preach the Gospel” today. What they...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: A few posts ago, I started the conversation about what our worship songs communicate about God and why that matters....

I was asked to give a talk to our pastoral team and ministry staff here at New Life Church on constructing a Biblical framework for a...

"Lex orandi, lex credendi." A friend reminded me of this phrase today. It is Latin for "the rule of prayer is the rule of belief", or in...

Pastors, it's good to remember that while healthy things grow, healthy things don't keep growing in the same way. All living things begin...

To mourn is to protest. It is to say that this should not be. We mourn when we lose a friend in a car accident. We mourn when we lose a...

Sometimes it's good to take a long look at yourself in the mirror…and laugh. And then, ask yourself some tough questions…like… Have we...

An encouragement to be patient and trust the unseen and often unspectacular work of God in our lives, families, churches, cities, and...

"…we often let the big ideas, the majestic vistas of salvation, the grand visions of God's work in the world, and the great opportunities...

When a church tries to be missional at the expense of the personal, people are reduced to their function, "you" becomes "it", and the...

What does our culture think of evil? Why do we pretend it doesn't exist until it hits us in the face? And what has God done about it? Is...

Nowhere in the New Testament are we told to "build the Kingdom of God" or to "expand it". Such talk is a failure to understand what the...

I was only eight years old the last time I remember my parents coming home from church on a Wednesday night with ash on their foreheads....

"Some day when we go into the archives of heaven to find a book which expounds the meaning of human history as God sees it, we will not...

"It is not the business of those who are called to the ministry of the Word to speak with authoritarian compulsion. We speak as...

"The binding of Satan means the coming of Christ, His presence on earth, the exercise of His power among men, has accomplished a defeat...

It is largely assumed that miracles are inherently unscientific. But let’s examine the premise for this belief. Science, it is said,...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Read the previous post, “Toward a Better Theology of Healing, Pt. 1”, for introductory remarks and points 1-3.] 4. The...