Featured Articles Archives

• A Healthy Church Member is Gospel Saturated  (May 4, 2009)
  The greatest need in the world today is the gospel. It is the greatest need of the world because men, women, and children are perishing without a vital knowledge of God through the good news of our Savior and his Son, Jesus.
• God Talks: The Bible is God's True and Lasting Word  (March 11, 2009)
  Knowing that God is a talking God helps us understand better one of the most important and precious possessions we have in all of life--our Bible.
• Abraham Lincoln's Path to Divine Providence  (February 18, 2009)
  Does suffering draw us into God or push us away?
• Good Communication Begins With the Heart  (March 3, 2009)
  Jesus tells us that man speaks out of the abundance of his heart. In other words, it's the wellspring of our heart that determines what flows from our mouths.
• The Ultimate How-To Guide: How to Display God's Character  (March 5, 2009)
  By listening and following God?s Word, we image and display God?s character and glory, much like a king?s ambassadors.
• A Healthy Church Member is a Biblical Theologian  (March 10, 2009)
  Perhaps the most compelling benefit for doing biblical theology is that it deepens our understanding of and facility with the gospel.
• Why I Am Committed to Teaching the Bible  (February 23, 2009)
  Faithfully preaching and teaching the Word must be the very heart of our ministry philosophy. Any other approach replaces the voice of God with human wisdom.
• God Controls Even Our Suffering  (February 17, 2009)
  How does a biblical understanding of God?s love and sovereignty serve to encourage and sustain us during trials?
• An Appetite for Sin  (February 18, 2009)
  If you can?t control your appetite, don?t go to the buffet. If you can?t look without lusting, look away. Don?t think you?re stronger than your desires.
• A Healthy Church Member is an Expositional Listener  (February 2, 2009)
  What would your response be if I told you that the most important thing you need to be as a church member is an expositional listener?
• God Has Made Himself Known  (February 27, 2009)
  We are dependent completely on God?s kindness and goodness to make himself known to us, and for this we ought to be grateful every day of our lives.
• The "Great Recession," Idols, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ  (March 4, 2009)
  We seem to have forgotten a simple but profound Christian truth that we cannot serve both God and mammon at the same time.
• Image is Everything: Christianity and the Church  (February 16, 2009)
  In fashion, movies, and marketing, image is everything. Did you know that image is everything in the Bible, too?
• What's Your Name?  (March 4, 2009)
  A name is important to one?s identity. And that?s why in the story of our fathers and mothers God keeps changing people?s names.
• Wars, Recessions, and Remembering Our Heavenly Citizenship  (February 16, 2009)
  There is a lot of unease in our nation now, including in our churches. Between the economy, wars overseas and changes in Washington, it is easy for many Christians to feel uneasy.
• Building the Church: A Plea to Pastors (and Laypeople)  (February 16, 2009)
  There?s more to a pulpit than a link to the past. Pulpits aren?t about tradition. They?re not about the ?way we?ve always done it.? Pulpits are about building the church on the Word of God.
• The Program-Driven Church  (February 16, 2009)
  Do our churches look too much like the Mall of America?
• What Every Church Should Aspire to Be: Healthy  (February 6, 2009)
  If you?re a Christian parent, what do you want for your kids? If you?re a Christian kid, what do you want for your family?
• Return of the King  (January 28, 2009)
  A meditation on Psalm 2.
• Image is Everything: Christianity and the Church  (February 16, 2009)
  In fashion, movies, and marketing, image is everything. Did you know that image is everything in the Bible, too?