Psalm 23:6a, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life..." Many Christians live with the constant awareness of being pursued by problems many in the form of persons. Throughout his life David knew what it was to look over his shoulder and see the relentless pursuit of persistent problems and persons hunting him down. Yet years of walking with G...

As believers, it is possible to live our lives from a wrong perspective brought on by gospel amnesia. If Christians do not understand or misunderstand what it means to be a child of God and operate from the premise that they are at best only forgiven sinners whose primary desires are still toward self and sin, then they will be forever baffled and beaten by problems and pr...

Sometime ago, Dr. Christopher Wright wrote an article about a tragedy that happened in Britain: "'All our gods have failed'.These poignant words come at the end of an editorial in a British newspaper, The Sunday Independent, commenting on the mood of acute moral self-examination and despair that has gripped the nation in the wake of the abduction and murder of a two-year o...

Charles Dickens summarized the conditions of France at the time of the French Revolution with his opening statement in his book, The Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." That is much like the condition we are living in America the best of times and the worst of times. However, this was not a situation that originated in France. In fa...

Across our nation and around the world, masses of believers are praying for revival, spiritual renewal, and reformation. The little prefix "re" in all the aforementioned words, means "back to the original place". If we go back to the original place, what will church look like? At the height of the Cold War, Billy Graham visited Russia to meet with their political and reli...

A blog post by David Shibley this morning, stated, "Today, we're battling a surge of teaching espousing universalism. This is the belief that all people will eventually be saved. And this teaching is never a friend to evangelism or missions. Instead of a loving yet firm rebuttal (which, I pray, this post will be), there is an eerie silence, even among many staunchly evange...