Don’t Just Tweet Your Proverbs: Lessons from Solomon (Guest Post: Elliff)
I don’t quite understand it. Everyone knows that King Solomon was the wisest man in the Old Testament. Yet, he had the most precipitous moral freefall of all the kings. The early Solomon loved God. “Now Solomon loved the Lord”…
Eyes of Faith: How Jesus Viewed the World
One of the most interesting aspects of Jesus’ character was his extreme spiritual-mindedness.
Five Ways that American Culture is Corroding Your Faith
American culture affects you in more ways than you know. Whether it’s the reductionism of modern evangelicalism or the ubiquity of electronics, it’s important be aware of the way that your faith is being shaped by cultures and subcultures of…
Martin Luther: A Reformation of Marriage and Family (Guest Post: Albin)
On October 31, 1517, a German monk named Martin Luther nailed 95 thesis to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. This document challenged the use of indulgences in ministry of the Catholic Church. The gospel message of full…
How to Read Sacred Literature: Six Principles
If you lived one thousand years ago in medieval Europe, your experience of reading would be very different. Most likely, you couldn’t read – only one woman out of every hundred, and five or ten men out of every hundred,…
The Christian Duty of Self-Denial
Christ’s appeal to his disciples was austere and foreboding: “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me” (Matthew 16:24).
A Simple Tool to Help You Assess Your Spiritual Health
What if you had a simple tool that could help you to assess your spiritual health, determine what areas you need to focus on, and track your spiritual growth over time?
Watch Your Words!
According to Psychology Today, “The average person complains between 15-30 times each day.” How often do you feel the need to ‘vent’ to a friend? Are your conversations at work filled with gossip about your lazy colleague or mean boss?…
Principles for Godly Living
It is true, religion is the immediate work of God; all our natural effort cannot produce it or merit his help. The Holy Spirit must come on us, and the power of the Highest must overshadow us, before Christ can be formed in us. However, we cannot expect that we are to do nothing.
Fear of the Future
“The remarkable thing is that it is possible for such things so to grip us as to paralyze us completely in the present; such people are very often in danger of being so absorbed and gripped by these fears that…
