You have probably heard about the recent scandal involving late-night host David Letterman. Apparently he has had sexual relationships with a number of subordinates who work for his show. Unfortunately this sort of behavior is not that unusual in our culture, but that does not make it ok. Letterman is married and has children, which [...]
About a year and a half ago I joined millions of other people worldwide by creating a profile on the popular website FACEBOOK.COM. In all actuality I signed up, and created my profile at the request of an acquaintance and forgot about even having done so. A few months later, as I checked my email, [...]
Country superstar Alan Jackson has had quite the string of hits over the past 15-20 years. His singing and songwriting abilities are legendary. His name is quickly recognizable to any major, or even minor, fan of country music.
There are many motives for doing the various activities which we do. These may include pleasing someone we love, maintaining our health, desire for knowledge, nothing better to do, a sense of guilt, a sense of obligation, and many more. Unfortunately, service for God, for many people, falls into one of the type categories listed [...]
Biblical Church Leadership Mark Dever writes “If you start looking in the New Testament for how we should organize as a church, you won’t find a straightforward manual on church government; there is no ideal constitution for a church, but that does not mean that the Bible has nothing to say about how we are [...]
A Concern for Discipleship and Growth The majority of churches these days are far more concerned about their “external” growth than about their “internal” growth. There are cases where external growth is a direct result of internal growth however the vast majority of the time, it is not.
Biblical Church Discipline Let me pose a few questions to you: “Are we to simply live as Christians on our own? Or do we have some level of obligation to one another? Do our obligations to each other stop at merely encouraging one another positively? Or do they possibly include a responsibility to speak honestly [...]
A Biblical Understanding of Church Membership We live in an age of “commitment-phobia.” People, it seems, like to keep all their options open. Even among those who do make commitments, one might raise the question, “just how deep is that commitment?”
What do you think of when you hear words like “evangelism,” or “evangelist?” Maybe you think of a man who has five suits, five sermons, and a motor home! Maybe the name “Billy Graham” comes to mind, perhaps a crusade, or a revival meeting somewhere in small-town America. For the literary astute, perhaps the character [...]
Charles Haddon Spurgeon once told a story of how he was walking down a London street when a drunken man approached him, leaned on the lamp-post nearby, and said “Hey Mr. Spurgeon, I’m one of your converts!” Spurgeon responded, “you must be one of mine – you are certainly not one of the Lord’s!” How [...]