Does Dropping Out of Church Mean Turning Your Back on God? Church attendance may relate to faith or the two may have no connection at all On a broader scope, I keep hearing reports that Millennials (or some other demographic) have turned from God...
Are you wealthy? Your initial answer on “No” is probably the same as mine was, but I’ve since learned that I was wrong. My eyes were recently opened to a new reality concerning my relative financial well-being in this global economy. The website...
Why Business Practices Hurt the Church Many churches try to operate like a business even though that model doesn’t apply In our culture we’re familiar with the structure of businesses. We either work for a business or we run one. It’s a natural...
John Calls Jesus the Word; Does that Make Him the Word of God? Considering Jesus as the Word of God shines new light on some verses in the Bible The book of John, which is a biography of Jesus, opens with a most poetic passage. It calls Jesus the...
The Bible Informs How We Understand God We get to know God better as we read about him in the Bible Is the Bible a book about God or a book about his crazy people? The answer is yes. In combining these two ideas, we can say the Bible is a book...
We Need to Have a Spirit of Generosity Examine Our Motives When We Give Paul writes a succinct reminder to Jesus’s followers in Corinth. By extension it also applies to us. He says “Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever...
Let Us Draw Near to God Four insights in how we are to approach God Because of who Jesus is and what he did for us, our relationship with God the Father changes. Through Jesus we have a new connection with Papa that we didn’t have before. We can...
Is Being a Christian Easy or Hard? Regardless of circumstances, God walks with us In Paul’s second letter to the believers in Corinth, he warns them not to deceive others or distort God’s word (2 Corinthians 4:2). That is, don’t misrepresent...
What Do We Do When We Get Together? The Bible tells us to not give up meeting together, but we often miss the point As we persevere in our faith, one aspect of this is to not give up meeting together (Hebrews 10:25). Many people interpret this...
How and Where Do We Devote Ourselves to the Work of the Lord? When we do God’s work, our labor is not in vain As Paul winds down his first letter to the church in Corinth, he gives a simple command, followed by some encouragement. He says for...
