5 Reasons Why Small Groups are Essential for Church Health
Because we care about our neighbor, we live in transformational living in Christ.
Jonathan Hayashi
6 Concentric Circles for Making Disciples
We are in the Great Commission by living empowered by the Great Commandment love.
What to do When We are Prayerless?
Does God really listen to my prayers? Does he really hear me when I cry out to him?
25 Inspiring Mission Quotes
“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.”—Samuel Zwemer
20 Great Quotes about the Church
“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Discipleship = More than Words
Discipleship is more about transformation than information. For dumping information doesn’t produce transformation.
Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
What’s wrong with the world today? Where is God in the midst of pain? Could we justify God in the midst of evil?
Christian Conflict: 5 Steps to Conflict Resolution
Conflict at cost is visible everywhere. In light of this, Christians are to be the salt and the light of Jesus by promoting the gospel of peace by not only believing the gospel but living the gospel.
Letter to the Anxious Christian
How can we continue on with faith in the life of anxiety when things seem uncertain? What are some ways to trust in our God in the midst of the storm?
Biblical Response to the New Age Movement with the Gospel
However difficult it is to engage the world, believers are called to engage this ever-changing culture with the never changing gospel!
Why Relevancy is Key in Reaching the Next Generation
Millennials represent the largest generation in America’s history with almost 80 million members. However, only 15% of millennials are Christians.
What Does it Mean to be a Loving Neighbor?
If my church ceased to exist today, would the community be impacted by its lack of presence for we loved our neighbors so well?
Living the Redeemed Life – A Saved Life is a Changed Life
One day our life will flash before our eyes, let’s make sure it’s worth watching.
4 Development Process for Effective Disciple Makers
Jesus didn’t take these men and immediately throw them into leadership. Jesus instead walked with them, prayed with them, and disciple them. In order to make disciples as Jesus did takes hard work, it requires grip, nurturing time, requires emotional intelligence, capacity, and fortitude.
The Modern Evangelical Churches: Enthusiasm & Orthodoxy
When the Word of God dominates your life, your praise is regulated, and your worship is conformed to the divine standard. (Colossians 3:16)
3 Doctrinal Issues in Denial of the Existence of Hell
The doctrine of hell is one of the most difficult aspects of the Christian faith for many people.
The Real Fight against Pornography
Pornography is evil. It is wrong, it is deadly, it distorts human sexuality, it is an assault upon human dignity. The moral consequences not just the secular world but even in American Evangelicals is devastating. Whether or not we are willing to overlook something like these repeated challenges, and is a scandal.
How the Resurrection Changes Everything
“He is not here,” tells them that their search is a vain one; no more should they look in a tomb for Jesus. “He has been raised,” where the passive points to the truth that the Father raised his Son.
The Secret to Multiplication Movements
The first twelve disciples empowered by the Holy Spirit and commissioned by Jesus, transformed the whole world.
America’s Greatest Theologian: Jonathan Edwards
Edwards has exercised influence through his voluminous writings, through a school of disciples known as the “New England Theologians”, and through the evangelical and neo-orthodoxy movements during the 19th and 20th century.
Spiritual Disciplines: Laziness or Legalism?
Can spiritual disciplines turn Christians into simply doing a checklist of rules? Or are these tasks weighing down Christians with unnecessary guilt?
Lesson from the Horror of Church Shooting
August 19, 2013, began like any other Monday at Uptown Baptist Church in Chicago, USA. No one knew it would become a day marked by tragedy.
How Do I, “Live for God’s Glory Alone”?
The fundamental question that our 21st century evangelical churches must ask is this; If we could have everything in this world, yet Christ is not there, can we be satisfied?
