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"The best defense of Christianity is a clear, simple presentation of the gospel that is culturally relevant, in the power of the Holy Spirit,...

Last week I wrote how Israel’s neglect of the poor was a central offense against God that led to their Babylonian exile and that we, too, have...

N.T. Wright's latest book is less a polemic in support of a more strident legalism or a treatise on "cheap grace." Rather, Wright argues that the...

New to ministry, this pastor learned to ask three very important questions...

When we read the book of Hebrews, we encounter a community of Christians living in a time of trial, struggling to understand God in the midst of...

If anything has been lost from our culture, it is the idea that human beings are personally, ultimately, and inexorably accountable to God. People...

Pilate tried to wash his hands but the stain remains. Not to decide is to decide.

Entire books have been written to beginning pastors, but here are ten pointers, most of which I have learned the hard way.

Pastors are no strangers to pain, but... is it possible to turn that pain into gold?

What hinders community is not a weakness of the institutional church and its leadership but rather the radical individualism of its members.

Most of us have read John 5:1–9, the story of the blind, paralyzed man at the pool of Bethesda, many times, but I’ll bet there’s something that...

Death puts us in the past tense; the Resurrection puts us in the future tense.

A parishioner's wife asked me a question as we stood in that hospital waiting room: “They say God won’t put on you more than you can bear. But,...

Those students of the Bible who don't read Greek can still reach beyond the English Bible to the original Greek in four easy steps.

In our zero-sum world, becoming great means making someone else small. But Jesus taught that true abundance comes from becoming "the servant of...