Original Post Date - May 22, 2002 Some Common Questions Answered During the past 15 to 20 years a dramatic shift has taken place in American Christianity: Psychology has flooded into the church. Christian psychologists are now the ones many Christians primarily look to for guidance in the Christian life. Christian psychologists write many of the best-selling books and do...
Keep Reading Original Post Date - May 22, 2002 Baptism is an important topic that also arouses much controversy and confusion. The decisive issue is, what does the Bible teach? I want to answer from the Bible some common questions about baptism. If you have a different understanding, I simply encourage you to study the Bible for yourself to see what it teaches (see Acts 17:11). Script...
Keep Reading Original Post Date - September 7, 2000 It's fascinating when engineers strategically place explosives and then set them off so that an old skyscraper collapses into a heap of rubble. With the Christian faith, you only have to set the explosives at one point: Blow up the resurrection of Jesus and the whole thing comes tumbling down. That's what the apostle Paul said. If y...
Keep Reading Original Post Date - September 7, 2000 The other day my wife and I hiked up to Fremont Saddle, where we came across an old rusty iron bedstead. I said, "Isn't that amazing? How many million years do you suppose it took for that iron to be worn down by the weather and glaciers until it looked like a bed?" "Don't be ridiculous," she said. "Someone used to have a cabin up h...
Keep Reading Original Post Date - January 13, 2006 In my spiritual life, the men who have helped me the most possess two qualities: solid biblical scholarship and a fervent heart of devotion for God. Some are impressive Bible scholars, but they are like spiritual dry toast. These men could look at a picture of a beautiful mountain scene and criticize the technical skill of the photogr...
Keep Reading Original Post Date - August 24, 2004 What I've Learned from Reading Christian Biographies During a class in my final year in seminary, Dr. Howard Hendricks said something that jumped out and grabbed me for life: "Two factors will have the greatest impact on where you find yourself ten years from now: the books you read and the friends you make. Guard them both very caref...
Keep Reading Original Post Date - September 1, 2005 The following summary of Bunyan's life is culled from "Memoir of John Bunyan," by George Offor, who edited Bunyan's 3-volumeWorks[Baker], in volume 1. A Brief Overview of Bunyan's life: John Bunyan lived from 1628-1688 in or near Bedford, England (north of London). He is most famous for his allegory,Pilgrim's Progress, which Spurge...
Keep Reading Original Post Date - August 26, 2005 A fictional story about a minister who embraced the modern psychobabble culture and abandoned God's Word. As he eased his BMW along the freeway in the crowded morning traffic, Dr. David Shaw reflected on the stunning success of his ministry. Just fifteen years before he had been the pastor of a struggling little church that wasn't gro...
Keep Reading Original Post Date - August 27, 2003 An open pastoral letter to a young Christian woman considering marriage to an unbeliever Dear Mary, Last Sunday at church your parents told me of your wedding plans. Being in love and looking forward to marriage is an exciting time in life. I can imagine your hopes as you look to the future. Your parents told me that your fianc is a...
Keep Reading Original Post Date - May 16, 2003 A Review of Neil Anderson'sVictory Over the Darkness Reading Neil Anderson'sVictory Over the Darkness[Regal Books, 1990, 245 pp.] is like eating steak laced with arsenic. The steak tastes great and makes up the major portion, but the arsenic, imbedded throughout, will kill you. First, the steak: Anderson strongly sets forth the believer...
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