Childhood is not too early to teach complex theological ideas; it's a fundamental time! This short video will help you get the concept of sin across to children.
If you want to take the business of holiness seriously (and you should), read the works of any notable Puritan writer. These 17th-century Christians understood that living God’s way is not a burden but the path to true and lasting pleasure.
Sometimes we take good advice. Sometimes we don’t. What about biblical exhortations? Take the following, for example: “always [be] prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Pet 3:15). This instruction makes a lot of sense to a Christian.
While I’ve loved and admired Calvin’s theology and ministry for a couple of decades, up until relatively recently my perception of Calvin’s personality was rather negative. I looked at him as the theological equivalent of Batman.
6 studies on the book of Jonah in the popular Pathway Bible Guides format.
We’ve all missed growth group now and then for various reasons, but sometimes people seem to be absent as often as present. Pastoring such irregular group members is one of the most common challenges of group leading.
9 interactive Bible studies for small groups and individuals on Luke 14–19.
This is the story of two men who decided to keep sharing the gospel in the face of personal tragedy.
In a previous post, I proposed regarding the analogy of the vine (John 15) that we sometimes mistake our leaves for fruit, thinking that if we’re “getting involved” in ministry, we’re producing fruit. But ministry activities are just leaves—an essential part of the health of our ‘branch’, but not what makes God’s mouth water. Leaves aren’t yummy to him; fruit is.
A Christian is “at the same time justified and a sinner” (simul iustus et peccator). It is one of the more well-known phrases of the Reformation. God in his grace and mercy has declared the Christian to be righteous due to the atoning work of Jesus Christ. And what God declares something to be, truly is. And yet at the same time, sin is still at work in our flesh.