Peter Beck Archives

Studying history also reveals our shortcomings. Did you know that there’s not been a great season of continual revival in America for over 100...

If we truly want to see a great revival in our generation, to experience spiritual renewal in our churches, and to know God’s blessing in our lives...

To receive the benefits of church membership, one must not only be on the rolls but in the pews as well. We are not to be “staying away from our...

As I looked for Waldo that Sunday morning, I began to ask myself a question: Are we having a truly biblical time of worship when the Bible has such...

Like the driveway across the street, or the one under my cars, Christians who overlook the study of the Word, who substitute spiritual shortcuts...

I can smell it now. The smell of fresh cut grass lingers in the air. The smell of popcorn wafts down the aisle. Then the aroma of hot dogs and...

So, let’s not throw out Sunday School. Let’s promote it. Let’s not kill Sunday School. Let’s grow it. Let’s recruit teachers who can teach. Let’s...

Look around many churches and this is a huge problem. We’ve got overweight members. We’ve got rotund children. We’ve got pastors in the pulpit who...

That last one was one of the hardest lessons to learn. I went through my early life, like all teenagers, thinking I knew everything. I struggled...

Imagine where the church would be if God had been as quick to reject these men, and myriads of others just like them, just because they don’t fit...

We were looking for a preacher who rightly handles the word of truth. We were looking for an expository preacher who teaches what the Bible...

As Christians we are not called to compare ourselves against other mere mortals anyway. Christ is our example and his holiness our standard....

The next time you go to church, see if you find yourself in David’s shoes, jubilant and full of the desire to share that joy with others. If so, do...

Too many churches suffer today not from a lack of leadership but from leadership of the wrong kind.

Stereotypes, caricatures, and labels have long been used to wound and corner our enemies. For the “greatest generation” the labels of Nazi,...