Christians have a long list of daily priorities. Two of the most important priorities are voiced in these two questions: 1. How do I focus my life on God’s priorities in the midst of such a busy and complex life? 2. How do I grow in demonstrating deeper love to others in the midst of... Continue Reading

Byron Johnson is Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University. In the most recent First Things, he writes The Good News About Evangelicalism, and gives some of the results of The Baylor Religious Survey. The results contradict recent claims that evangelicalism is shrinking and the younger generation is becoming more secular. I suspect... Continue Reading

“But no matter what mysteries the future may yet have to disclose, the fact remains that the broad stream of the development of our race runs from Babylon to San Francisco, through the five stadia of Babylonian-Egyptian, Greek-Roman, Islamic, Romanistic and Calvinistic civilization…” –Abraham Kuyper, Stone Lectures, pg 36 After a long wait, the San... Continue Reading

“I ain’t never felt nothing that hurts so hard. I would never have wished such grief and pain on the woman I love. She loved me as much I loved her. She was my heart. I’ll never stop loving her and hurting for her in this life.” The R&B song below was recorded in 1966... Continue Reading

“What is the church and its mission?” Matthew 28: 18-20 would be a good place to start. Then see how the Apostles worked that out in their time and places. Perhaps if we ask the right question, get the right answer, and follow the directions we can find our way to letting the church be,... Continue Reading

The Great Commission excludes the easy-believism and pseudo-gospels of pop spirituality precisely because it commands repentance from sin and faith in Christ crucified and raised for sinners. This is the message the church has been commissioned to preach, and it is the message that the world desperately needs to hear. Have you ever wished you... Continue Reading

The devil usually scores by reduction: reducing love to sex, lasting joy to fleeting pleasure, virtue to slogans. How many of his victims are easily confused, to the detriment of their immortal souls? Of course she has a story—everyone does. Amy Woodruff is someone’s daughter, certainly. Perhaps she’s someone’s mother, sister, girlfriend, wife, or ex.... Continue Reading

In a passionate plea to seminary students, Reformed theologian C. J. Mahaney, President of Sovereign Grace Ministries, cautioned them against becoming “puffed up” believers in Christ. The temptation of pride is there, especially as Christians grow in their knowledge of the truth, Mahaney warned on Thursday. But rather than being filled with pride, believers should... Continue Reading

We are an almost-all white church in the midst of a predominantly African-American City, in the weird position of being “Majority-Minorities” –18% in fact, by recently released census data. Jackson is 80% African-American, and I am as white as God made white folk. Our worship is as white, vanilla Presbyterian as one might expect from... Continue Reading

The gospel is neither religion nor irreligion, it is something else altogether. Vital gospel Christianity’s influence on a society will produce neither a liberal and secular nor a traditional and conservative culture, but something we have seldom seen before. In Japan, in Western Europe, and in Russia, the birth-rate has fallen precipitously, to below replacement... Continue Reading