By Tyler Greene By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.1 John 3:16 I once read about a revival which took place among some of Scotland’s rural churches in the 1800s. Many of the believers who belonged to these churches lived in the middle of nowhere and would travel long distances…

Part Two of series on the Lord’s Day(Click Here to read Part One) By Pastor Tedd Mathis In our previous installment on The Lord’s Day we saw seven reasons why we should set it aside. In this installment I want to give two main ways how we are to do this. Our Lord does not heap on us picayune rituals and needless…

By Pastor Tedd Mathis This is a two-part series. This first installment provides reasons why our Lord is worthy of making Sunday His day.  The second installment will provide specific ways as to how we can set apart the Lord’s Day. (Click Here to read Part Two) God has always directed His people to view and use their time based on who…

By Erwin Lutzer The church has always been tempted to dull the sharp edges of the Christian faith, to abandon hard truths in the face of cultural and religious pressure. Passing a vibrant faith to the next generation is always a challenge, especially without the support of the government, the courts, the media, public schools, and the national zeitgeist that insists that…

By Pastor Tedd Mathis Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still…

By Stephen Kneale You don’t have to look very far to find people telling you that the virgin birth is really unimportant… We don’t need to believe that sort of unscientific nonsense these days, they will tell you. After all, the Hebrew word translated ‘virgin’ can legitimately mean ‘young woman’ so we’re not textually bound to the view. {If we} dispense with…

By Garrett Kell Last night my family walked past a Victoria’s Secret store. It was incredible to see how the older kid’s eyes were instinctively drawn to look at the pictures of nearly nude women. We stepped aside afterward to talk about why they wanted to look and what we could learn from it. One daughter asked if people only want to…

Adapted from D. Martin Lloyd-Jones commentary on Ephesians As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ… — Ephesians 4:14,15 ‘Speaking the truth in love’ has come to mean…

By David Wells Above All Earthly Pow’rs, Christ In A PostModern World   In America anything and everything can be “commodified” and sold, from style to sex, from ideas to religion. In towns and cities are churches, mosques, and synagogues; in the Yellow Pages there are choices for worship on Sunday morning ranging from the Episcopalians to the Baptists to the Assemblies…

It’s not uncommon to hear folks in the United States crying about the moral state of our society. It’s also not uncommon to hear blame being cast on ‘the church’ for our social ills. The ‘church’ isn’t doing its job. If churches were teaching xxxxx, or not teaching xxxxx. If churches were doing their job, the country would be better than it…