Michael Craven

The Christmas season is upon us and with it overwhelming encouragement to spend what we have not earned to buy what we cannot afford.

One of the ways we can determine whether or not we are listening to the voice of God versus that other voice is to examine the four foundational...

What we often perceive as the biblical way is often nothing more than the worldly way dressed up in piety and justified by familiarity and personal...

This is clearly the implication of the media reports following the latest Pew Research, “Nones on the Rise,” which shows a “steep decline” in the...

Slacktivism, a term coined in the mid-1990s, refers to the increasingly popular phenomenon of casual activism.

As we begin this Holy Week there is no other issue, no other thought more demanding of our attention than that of the death, burial, and...

This past week, I sent my 20-year-old son to war. As a father, how do I reconcile teaching my son to serve others when doing so is dangerous?

This government’s recent volley across the bow of religious freedom is nothing less than a direct assault on individual freedom of conscience.

Now that we are standing at the crossroads of the church's departure from the truth, we can look to the ancient paths: the Scriptures.

Opponents of religion think that religious faith persists by means of a stubborn, unenlightened, and uneducated lower class. But what do recent...

As we approach this national day of thanksgiving, I thought it necessary to reflect upon our nation’s long history of giving thanks to Almighty...

We'd be well served to recall the proclamations of great men set aside for this holiday.

Your immediate response may be, “What does Christianity have to do with economics?” In response, I would say: Everything.

If the ecclesiocentric view of the church’s mission tends to focus on the building and maintenance of the institutional church (a place of...

What exactly is the church’s mission? In order to answer this question, we must first accurately define the gospel.

In times past, the church occupied a central and influential place in society. But what does the new, post-Christian cultural condition mean for...

I do not think it too strong or sensational to say that we are witnessing the collapse of Western civilization. Across the Western world, the...

Throughout the first decade of the new millennium, multiple studies—revealing a crisis among youth in the church—seemed to appear almost every year...