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There’s more to a pulpit than a link to the past. Pulpits aren’t about tradition. They’re not about the “way we’ve always done it.” Pulpits are about building the church on the Word of God.

The Ascended Christ said to the church at Laodicea, “You say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing–but you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked." Reality is often far different from what we want...

When we imagine a helmet, we think about the protection of our head and ultimately our lives. I would argue that if we do not take our thoughts captive and focus our minds on Christ daily, the way we live our lives is at stake. How can we protect...

Here's how the big boys do it.

For several reasons these days, the doctrine of repentance is not often preached. But where it is, the grace of God is promoted.

Do the people around you know that Jesus’ life-giving sacrifice on the cross completely crushed death, along with the terror celebrated every year on October 31? Should Christians celebrate Halloween? Yes, Christians can, because the blood of...

October 31 is a charged date for many Christians. Some embrace Halloween with open arms, while others opt for participating in fall festivals or celebrating Reformation Day. Conflicting opinions abound. Some believe Halloween is a purely pagan...

It’s no secret biblical literacy is on decline. Every major researcher on faith trends seems to be reporting it.

As we seek to understand some of the major differences between Christianity and Islam, it is impossible to ignore 1,400 years of a conflicted history. It is a story more often written in blood than with ink.

It’s here in the U.S., in the Western world more generally, where so much less is at stake that we offer up such pathetic reasons (at least I suspect God considers them pathetic) for not joining together with fellow believers on a regular, weekly...

God is honored when we work with the goal of reflecting His life through our life and work. So why and how did society begin to draw a separation between faith and work?

Lisa knew the cost of being a foster parent was bearing lifelong heart bruises when a child was returned to uncertainty.

Some say it's a distraction for pastors to write. I say it's a useful ministry tool

An editorial appeared in the September 21, 1897, edition of The New York Sun titled "Is There a Santa Claus?" It was a reply to a query sent by an 8-year-old girl named Virginia. She asked her father if there was a Santa Claus, and he suggested...

When Rome fell, at least the barbarians were outsiders. In America, the Vandals and Visigoths are our own children.

For medieval Christians, contact with relics of Christ and the saints provided a unique bridge between earth and heaven.

One wonders how church members came to see their job as issuing progress reports on the preacher’s pulpit abilities. “He’s better.” “He’s the same.” “He’s worse.”

The loss of the Christian worldview in this generation has been catastrophic--and that loss is immediately traced to an ignorance of the one true God. A worldview reset will require a fundamental theological recovery. A diagnosis of the real...