Michael Craven

In an effort to answer the demand for practical steps by which the church can demonstrate its essential witness-bearing love for one another, there...

I now want to take up Paul’s charge that "love believes all things." Paul is not calling for a foolish gullibility, but even if you get taken...

This describes the church quite well. It is here that we see the “beautiful mess,” albeit more mess than beauty today. The beauty emerges as a...

What is the best expression of the mission of the church in light of our changing cultural and social reality?

Sadly, over the course of the last century, we have reduced the gospel to simplistic formulas and programmatic appeals—appeals that are designed to...

If, in fact, we no longer understand the gospel, then going back to the point of departure from the truth is the only reasonable course. As C. S....

The apocalyptic George Orwell once wrote, “Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” While not presuming...

You stand upon the precipice of adult independence—preparing to cross over the Jordan, as it were, to take possession of the land. For those who...

My 17-year-old son played in the Home School World Series held in Pensacola, Florida this past week (his final high school game). Begun in 2000,...

In our ongoing analysis of The Coming Evangelical Collapse we must inevitably examine what I call the “new ecclesiology” or doctrine of the church....

Over the last century the church in America has suffered serious generational drift and decay. In every subsequent generation over the last...

This was the provocative title of a recent article by popular blogger Michael Spencer (aka Internet Monk) published in the Christian Science...

Matthew Henry, the early 18th century English preacher and author of the renowned commentary that bears his name, begins his examination of...

When it comes to the study and practice of apologetics the same tension exists, as we can see with liturgy. People have the tendency to believe...

Without an unchanging Christ you will not have a biblical, confessional faithful and robust Christianity. The gospel of Jesus Christ is one,...

Are we ready to be apologists in a brave new world? This is the question that the church must be asking in light of monumental social,...

As I argue in Uncompromised Faith, the study of historic Christian apologetics is essential for any person who professes to be a follower of...

As I argue in Uncompromised Faith, the study of historic Christian apologetics is essential for any person who professes to be a follower of...