Michael Craven

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...

The legalization of abortion did not emerge out of a vacuum nor did it appear as a sudden and unexpected contrast to established values. Roe v....

Like so many Christians of his day, Billy Sunday believed a great moral and religious victory had been won with Prohibition. He, and they, would be...

"Changing from the culture of death to a culture of life" is really an audacious statement when you think about it. Yet we talk of changing the...

It is said that the test of true ignorance is our inability to recognize our own ignorance. (Or, in the words of Forrest Gump, “Stupid is as...

For the past several weeks I have been attempting to outline a Christian response to Islam, Muslims, and the politically contentious issue of the...

The “Ground-Zero Mosque” is a highly politicized issue, one in which Christians—speaking publicly as Christians—would be wise to avoid because ours...

Islam is more than mere religion in the recently secularized Western sense—i.e., private beliefs that are largely irrelevant to public life. In...

First, let me just say that to assert “Christianly” thoughts on the topics of Islam, Muslims, and the Ground-Zero mosque is by no means to suggest...

Okay, I knew it was going to happen. I even prefaced last week’s commentary on public education by granting the fact that “this is a dicey issue...

I am frequently asked for my thoughts on “public education.” Granted this is a dicey issue that can get you into a lot of trouble very quickly....

As I speak to Christian audiences around the country, I am often asked for “effective arguments” to refute this particular philosophy or that...