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• A Meal Says More than You Think: The Importance of Hospitality  (November 24, 2010)
  The Bible teaches that acts of hospitality or inhospitality reveal the good or evil of a person or a community. How well do Christians display God's own heart in this area?
• Inerrancy and Baggage  (November 17, 2010)
  The question is not whether we will claim labels for ourselves, but whether we will be courageous enough to stake out our positions clearly.
• Are You Storing Up Earthly Treasures?  (November 10, 2010)
  Believers seem to possess the same attitude and approach to money as does society in general. They want more of it because they are convinced it will solve most of their problems.
• When Christians Sin  (November 3, 2010)
  Does the church too often reverse the gospel or react without a proper sense of biblical responsibility?
• An Attitude of Thanksgiving  (November 1, 2010)
  Psalm 136 is a psalm that Spurgeon called one of Israel?s favorites because it was so simple. The refrain of this psalm is a refrain of praise to God?s grace--grace, mercy, and loyal love that leads us to thanksgiving.
• Another Gospel?  (October 29, 2010)
  The "different gospel" to which the Galatians were turning went something like this: Repent and believe in Jesus, showing that you really want to be a child of Abraham by submitting to circumcision and certain other regulations. Or, faith + works = salvation.
• What Can You Do When God Won't Heal You?  (October 27, 2010)
  You believe that God can heal you... but what if no healing comes your way? Does that mean you don't have enough faith? Here's how to find A Place of Healing no matter what.
• The Trinity Under Attack  (October 20, 2010)
  Doctrine is under attack again (what else is new?) in the Christian church. Among the vital doctrines onset from numerous sources today is the doctrine of the Trinity.
• Future Trends in Evangelicalism  (October 13, 2010)
  Evangelical churches that have been successful in the past ten years have been able to anticipate and recognize trends quickly, and also find effective ways to communicate the gospel to the culture in which they live. For that to continue this decade, several issues must be discussed and resolved.
• How Much Do You Have to Hate to Not Evangelize?  (July 19, 2010)
  You'd think that this current climate of spiritual openness and hunger for spiritual experience should be a perfect setting for evangelism. But that's not what is happening.
• Is Bad Ever Good?  (June 25, 2010)
  Job loss, financial crisis, rebellious children, disappointments, rejection, unexpected illness - the list of what we call "bad" goes on. Can anything good come from a bad situation? That depends.
• How Mentoring College Students Can Help The Slow Fade  (June 25, 2010)
  The college years are a crucial time for people to engage in relationships that give them encouragement and support. Here's how Christians can mentor college students and help slow the church drop-out rate.
• Is Religion Evil?  (June 2, 2010)
  Is it true that lurking within every religious believer lies a potential terrorist and that if we get rid of religion the world will be a safer place?
• Someone Worth Losing Everything For  (May 26, 2010)
  Are you Radical enough to reclaim your faith from the clutches of the American Dream?
• Do We Really Know Jesus? Adam Gopnik and the Gospels  (May 25, 2010)
  Even the most secularized classes, those whom Friedrich Schleiermacher called the "cultured despisers of religion," cannot leave Jesus alone. Not even The New Yorker.
• Does God So Love the World?  (April 26, 2010)
  Love is the best known but least understood of all God's attributes. Does the Bible teach that God loves all people alike? Is He compelled by some rule of fairness to love everyone equally?
• "Let My People Go": An Appeal to End the Horror of Human Trafficking  (April 13, 2010)
  Can there be anything that grieves the Father's heart more than the forced enslaving of people made in His own image?by others bearing that same divine imprint?
• 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.
• Where Is God?  (January 14, 2010)
  Some people?not all?have found in the greatest evil?the time of greatest sorrow?the greatest need for God and the greatest evidence of God.
• Raising Children Who Hope in the Triumph of God  (January 13, 2010)
  Parenthood can be exciting and fulfilling---even more so for Christians who understand what a family is biblically and what the family is for in God's great design for the world. (Read more)