When we teach on some passages, such as God’s good design for human sexuality and the role of men and women, our initial gut reaction is often anything but positive.
If we are people of God’s word, and if all Scripture is profitable for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that God’s people are equipped to do good work, then surely the leader is driven by biblical ideals and high expectations.
Since the beginning of the church there has been unhealthy tension between the shepherd and the sheep, the appointed leaders and those they lead.
The average churchgoer attends church just twice a month. I hope you’ll agree that this is rather saddening! Here are three biblical truths to help us break the twicer habit.
Are we looking forward to the new creation, or are we captivated by the good gifts that God has given us now?
Now the first reaction to the title of this piece might be “What! How can anyone say they stand perfectly obedient before God?” On one level, this is the right reaction. How can anyone claim such a thing, knowing the place of sin in the human heart?
At first glance, it seems like the Book of Acts ends with an anticlimax. But, as Mike Leite reminds us, that’s because the Book of Acts is not yet finished.
Telling others around us that we’re Christian or that we go to church is enough, right? Mike Leite suggests that if so, we are forgetting something very important.
Mike Leite argues for the importance of ‘priority’ and how it relates to the ministry of the word and prayer.
Currently the Christian blogosphere is abounding in pieces about Christians and their secular work. The majority of these articles are written in order to help the Christian think deliberately about their day-to-day work and how it fits within God’s plan for their lives. While these pieces can be helpful (and others theologically questionable!), it seems to me the majority of them are overly positive about work.