Feb 20, 2019 | Christian Living, The Bible
What is the source of authority when it comes to the church and right theology? Is it the clergy? Or is it the message? In my previous blog, I gave texts where the message and the messenger, in the best of all circumstances, go together because the character,...
Feb 6, 2019 | Christian Living, The Bible
I taught a class called “Preaching through Ephesians” last semester at Houston Baptist University, and in the coming months, I’ll be adapting a few of my lectures into blogs. The first thing we talked about is applicable to any person who shares the word...
May 21, 2018 | Christian Living, Theology
I have a prediction for young people today, for high school and college students, graduates and young professionals. It’s not much of a prediction. You don’t need a government grant to demonstrate it. Dark days are coming. But that’s an easy prediction because life is...
Dec 7, 2015 | Christian Living, Culture, The Bible
You don’t have to look far to see that there is a serious moral decline in our families and in our culture. American Christian revival movements have historically happened within a certain context that is no longer present in the United States—a cultural base of...
Nov 23, 2015 | Christian Living, Psalms, The Bible
Psalm 116 has much in common with other thanksgiving Psalms, but it also has an element that’s a bit unusual: the Psalmist identifies the specific reason for his thanksgiving. He was near death, he cried out to the Lord for rescue, and the God of covenant mercy,...
