Featured Articles Archives

• What's Your Name?  (March 4, 2009)
  A name is important to one?s identity. And that?s why in the story of our fathers and mothers God keeps changing people?s names.
• An Everlasting Picture: Pentecost and the Story of Ruth  (February 4, 2010)
  Scripture is clear that God is preparing a bride for his Son; this is what all of history is leading up to. Like Ruth, the bride of Christ begins as a foreigner from an immoral land steeped in idolatry; but in our desolation, we commit to him and he takes us in.
• Why I Am Committed to Teaching the Bible  (February 23, 2009)
  Faithfully preaching and teaching the Word must be the very heart of our ministry philosophy. Any other approach replaces the voice of God with human wisdom.
• God Talks: The Bible is God's True and Lasting Word  (March 11, 2009)
  Knowing that God is a talking God helps us understand better one of the most important and precious possessions we have in all of life--our Bible.
• The Ultimate How-To Guide: How to Display God's Character  (March 5, 2009)
  Imagine a son whose father journeyed to a distant country and then wrote his son a series of letters, instructing him on how he was to carry on the family name and how he was to conduct the family business. Yet suppose that the son never read his father?s letters. How would this son ever learn to represent the father and conduct the father?s business? He wouldn?t. And neither does the local church that ignores the Word of God.
• A Healthy Church Member is an Expositional Listener  (February 2, 2009)
  What would your response be if I told you that the most important thing you need to be as a church member is an expositional listener?
• Good Communication Begins With the Heart  (March 3, 2009)
  Jesus tells us that man speaks out of the abundance of his heart. In other words, it's the wellspring of our heart that determines what flows from our mouths.
• God Controls Even Our Suffering  (February 17, 2009)
  How does a biblical understanding of God?s love and sovereignty serve to encourage and sustain us during trials?
• An Appetite for Sin  (February 18, 2009)
  If you can?t control your appetite, don?t go to the buffet. If you can?t look without lusting, look away. Don?t think you?re stronger than your desires.
• God Has Made Himself Known  (February 27, 2009)
  We are dependent completely on God?s kindness and goodness to make himself known to us, and for this we ought to be grateful every day of our lives.
• Image is Everything: Christianity and the Church  (February 16, 2009)
  In fashion, movies, and marketing, image is everything. Did you know that image is everything in the Bible, too?
• A Ray of Light Amid the Darkness: Remembering Our Heavenly Citizenship  (February 16, 2009)
  There is a great deal of unease in our nation and in our churches at this time. With the declining economy, wars overseas and radical changes in Washington, it is easy for many Christians to feel uneasy. What response should we have? Read more...
• Building the Church: A Plea to Pastors (and Laypeople)  (February 16, 2009)
  There?s more to a pulpit than a link to the past. Pulpits aren?t about tradition. They?re not about the ?way we?ve always done it.? Pulpits are about building the church on the Word of God.
• The Program-Driven Church  (February 16, 2009)
  Do our churches look too much like the Mall of America?
• What Every Church Should Aspire to Be: Healthy  (February 6, 2009)
  If you?re a Christian parent, what do you want for your kids? If you?re a Christian kid, what do you want for your family?
• Return of the King  (January 28, 2009)
  A meditation on Psalm 2.
• Image is Everything: Christianity and the Church  (February 16, 2009)
  In fashion, movies, and marketing, image is everything. Did you know that image is everything in the Bible, too?
• God's Way of Revival for the Christian Church  (January 5, 2009)
  I love bumper sticker theology. These rolling evangelism tracts say a lot about the popular theology of the church.
• The Truth of the Cross  (January 9, 2009)
  If it is true that the cross is of central importance to biblical Christianity, it seems that it is essential for Christians to have some understanding of its meaning in biblical terms. That would be true in any generation, but it's particularly necessary in this one.
• The Church: A Family, a Fellowship, and the Body of Jesus Christ  (January 16, 2009)
  Can you define what a Christian is without mentioning the church? If you can, your definition just might not line up with the Bible?s.