We are on to something. At first glance you may find yourself thinking: This isn’t anything new, been there and done that. Or how about this one: There is no “one size that fits all.” Actually, there is. I have found that there are major gaps in the retention and assimilation processes in churches of …
You would just about have to live under a rock to not know that our nation is embroiled in a national debate on abortion. Actually—the debating stopped, and battle lines were drawn when New York passed the Reproductive Health Act allowing an abortion right up to the point of birth, announced in the New York …
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I was recently awakened at 4 a.m. after having one of the most disturbing dreams I’ve ever had. After much thought and reflection over the next few hours, I knew I should share its contents. It showed I was in a high-level government meeting, watching as the terms for our surrender as a nation were …
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God’s judgment, thankfully, is tempered with His mercy. He sees our lives—all of it—and He implores us to give this warning to our churches. In 1 Corinthians Paul is addressing a church that had begun to look more like the corrupt and godless culture that surrounded the church than the church God had intended. I …
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In part one of this series, we tackled controversial statement No. 1: It is possible to love God with your whole heart and yet, not KNOW Him. To love God with all your heart and all your soul only is incomplete because it is missing one of the most important factors of becoming like Christ—your …
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The church in the United States sits atop a fulcrum, teetering between going on with God or settling for a weekly dose of good news and a handshake. The problem is, not to go on with God makes for a church that is 1,000 miles wide and only one inch deep. To go on with …
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How to change the course of our nation’s decline Few Christians in America are confident in the spiritual direction our country is headed. We are a troubled nation, growing progressively worse in a time when people “call evil good, and good evil” (Is. 5:20). As I was musing on the state of the nation during …
i·dol·a·try – 1.Worship of idols. 2. Blind or excessive devotion to something. As I was walking the other day, I found myself asking God the most amazing question. It was a question that came to me after much musing about the troubled state of the U.S. The question was simply this: “Lord, if You judge …
In his book Waking the Dead Christian author John Eldredge wrote: “We are at war. The world in which we live is a combat zone, a violent clash of kingdoms, a bitter struggle unto the death. You were born into a world at war, and you will live out all your days in the midst of the great battle, involving all the forces of heaven and hell and played out here on earth.”
Indeed, the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan are at war in our society today, and sometimes it’s hard to know which side even some Christians are on. Many of them think and act just like people in the world. Why? Because they don’t truly know God, and their minds have not been renewed.
Many Christians live in fear of breaking the law if they promote a political candidate. Here are the facts you need to know. While the dust has mostly settled on the 2008 presidential campaign, the general election itself is now rapidly moving into the spotlight. Churches, and more specifically church leaders, are still playing a …
