What Is the Gospel?
What Is the Gospel? FROM R.C. Sproul Oct 26, 2015 Category: Articles There is no greater message to be heard than that which we call the gospel. But as important as that is, it is often given to massive distortions or over simplifications. People think they’re preaching the gospel to you when they tell you, ‘you […]
The Church is Not a Drive-Thru Restaurant
Paul describes the unity and diversity of gifts in the body of Christ by saying: “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each […]
9 Questions for Sleepy and Nominal Christians
I recently attended a baptismal service and heard many testimonies from those being baptized. Many of the testimonies shared a common characteristic: people had gone to church for years finally “got it”—and began to follow Jesus more intentionally, leading to great transformation. For some, it might have been a “born again” experience. For others a deeper […]
Ultimate Fellowship
Faithful Christians are thinking Christians
Christianity is the thinking person’s religion. Or, it should be, at any rate. By that, I don’t mean you need to be a high-brow scholar, or have an Ivy League education. You need not be particularly gifted when it comes to formal education at all. There are plenty of highly educated people who don’t truly think, […]
Love, Lover, and Beloved
“The following dissertation concerning the Trinity, as the reader ought to be informed, has been written in order to guard against the sophistries of those who disdain to begin with faith, and are deceived by a crude and perverse love of reason.”(1) Thus begins Augustine’s dissertation on the Trinity, written for those whose perverse love […]
Discerning Between Joy and Happiness
The Cracked Water Pot
Finding Your Identity
Finding Your Identity Several images are used in the Bible to describe the church: the body of Christ, the elect, the house of God, the saints. One of the most meaningful expressions the Bible uses is “the people of God,” the laos theon. The church, then, is people. The Roman Catholic Church once declared, “Where the bishop […]