Michael Craven Archives

For many Westerners, the hope of peace between the Middle East and the West rests in the spread of democracy. However, is our foreign policy driven...

American Christians generally flow in one of two cultural directions: they either tend toward being consumers or being creators. Which is more in...

As a result of the overwhelming suffering, injustice, and evil that frequently seems to rule the day, many of us may feel overwhelmed by a sense...

Too often, our attitude toward the surrounding culture and those who make it up is judgmental and condemning. We thoughtlessly criticize anything...

If “all the Law” hangs on loving God and loving others, then to love God is to obey him and to obey him is to love others. But what does it really...

Contrary to a life of enforced austerity and the absence of pleasure, the denial of self is actually the means to true pleasure (joy) as one abides...

The pursuit of accurate self-knowledge is an essential starting point in modern Christian discipleship. I believe this is made more so in our day...

So, how do we express the gospel of the kingdom beyond its modern reductionist version? You know, the detached consumer-oriented, drive-by...

Perhaps the best way to understand the goal of the kingdom and why Jesus came to earth is to recall more precisely what sin has ruined. In...

Today when evangelicals speak of the gospel, they almost always mean, simply, the personal plan of salvation. This is generally limited to an...

It appears, based on some of the reactions to last week’s commentary, that we need to further explore the subject of the gospel of the kingdom....

Biblical discipleship is either absent or woefully inadequate to producing any tangible fruit, much less real freedom in Christ. Thus too many...

There is a sadness that reminds me what my sin has done to God's good creation. It is during such a season that I am compelled to look beyond this...

Personally, I am delighted to see that the alarming shift toward European-style socialism has suffered some measure of arrest. Americans, in large...

This is the conclusion to my series, "Changing Culture: A Study in Cultural Engagement." Here, we come to our third and final example of cultural...