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Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) Promises are an important part of our lives. From businesses to friends, we all rely on a level of promises and guarantees more than we may realize. Yet when we fully understand […]
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Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) What’s the point of the life we live? What direction do we point our feet when we take steps towards our greatest desire in life? Between now and our eternity with God,
The Lifelong Need for Purity (Part 6 of Reflecting on Fallen Leaders) Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment. (James 3:1) Whenever I think about how a teacher falls into sin so
The Terrifying Responsibility of Teaching (Part 5 of Reflecting on Fallen Leaders) Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority (John Dalberg-Acton, 1887) Why do those with the
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) (This is part of an ongoing series. Check out part one and part two) In reading and listening to other commentators on this subject, *I heard an interesting point: Ravi Zacharias may
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) (This is an ongoing series. Check out part one here.) In the last decade, a number of celebrity pastors and teachers have either fallen into sin or have adopted such strange theology
The Toxic Desire for “Yes Men” (Part 2 of Thinking Through the Ravi Zacharias Scandal) Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) The Christian community continues to lose prominent figures in America. As each year goes by, more men and women are compromising, sometimes even completely losing, ministries that God has used in the
The Danger of Celebrity Culture (Part 1 of Thinking Through the Ravi Zacharias Scandal) Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes Nothing about what happened on the cross was fair. Jesus Christ presented Himself before the Father and pled guilty to every sin we’ve ever committed. God treated His own Son as the greatest criminal in the universe, pouring out his righteous judgment and punishing Christ for our wrongdoing. And at the end of it all,
Day 25 – Sacrificed for Our Sin (25 Days of Christ in the Old Testament) Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes “If God would just reveal Himself to me, then I’d believe” is something many people may honestly believe. Even those of us who follow Christ fall into the trap of thinking that we’d have more faith if God would just be a bit more obvious to us. Yet we see throughout God’s word that people
Day 24 – Rejection of Christ’s Teaching (25 Days of Christ in the Old Testament) Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutes Christ’s victory over death was glorious. At the cross He paid the penalty for our sins, taking our place under the wrath of God. He died so that we can live. But His death wasn’t the end of the story, nor will it be the end of ours. Christ in the Old Testament For You
Day 23 – Victory Over Death (25 Days of Christ in the Old Testament) Read More »