Why Do I Do What I Don’t Want to Do?
Does what I think, what I feel, what I do glorify the Name of my Lord? I believe that question alone can become a wise counsel that can eliminate 90% of the issues dealt with in life.
Relationships
Pharisaical Heart of an Abusive Leader
The sad reality is that these sorts of conversations I have as a pastor and as a biblical counselor are quite common.
Episode 31: Church Hurt
Don’t want to be stuck in past circumstances, that influences the present moments, which unbales you to move towards the future opportunities.
Oxymoron of a Bitter Unforgiving Christian
One of the greatest sins in the church may be a lack of forgiveness, which stems from pride, and it stems from not preaching the gospel to ourselves.
The Role of the Husband in Biblical Marriage
Understanding and knowing the biblical prescribed marriage is not only for the deep theologians who can distinguish the differentiation.
5 Ways to Lead and Love Your Wife
One day when you are older and your children have started their own families and have moved to another place, or when your friends become elderly and pass away, your wife is the one who will still be right at your side.
5 Reasons Why Small Groups are Essential for Church Health
Because we care about our neighbor, we live in transformational living in Christ.
20 Great Quotes about the Church
“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.
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?
The Ordinary Radicals: Radical Life of Ordinary Christians
This is absolutely a counter-cultural model. This radically changes everything of how we think and howe we function as a church.
Church’s Great Threat = Pornography
Huffington Post writes, “Porn sites has more regular traffics compared to Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined all together each month.”
This is a shocking reality. These are not angry fundamentalist conservative Christians but secular culture coming up with these statistics.
Five Ways to Cultivate a Culture of Discipleship
Jesus envisioned that the victory would be won through witnessing and he depended on the faithfulness of his chosen disciples to this task. That was his only plan. His concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes, but men were to be His method of winning the world.
Why Churches Don’t Grow
We want to do church, but we don’t want to live Christ. We can only change when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.
Why Church Community Matters
Discipleship doesn’t happen apart from the context of local church. There is no such thing as a solo-discipleship as it’s a foreign idea. We can’t become the Christian we are meant to be by being alone with God.
5 Dangers of Church Skipping
“I love Jesus but I don’t like the church. I will never leave Jesus but I’m done with the church” people who make such a statement are walking away from Jesus.
The Eight ‘Ds’ of Personal Discipleship
In this fallen world even people in a very complex, postmodern world are desperately hungry to hear the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We need to step it up. We need to toughen up and take this job seriously. We need to be ready to suffer for the gospel. We need to be motivated by this stewardship that we have been entrusted. We are to run this race well.
Three Steps to Recover an Outwardly Focused Church
Churches have become preoccupied with existing to meet people’s felt needs and satisfy their wants. They are no longer fellowship of those who are sacrificial, those who want to give their lives away.
So which one are you? There’s only two categories. Spurgeon said it well, “Every Christian is either an imposter or a missionary.”
Three Attributes of True Biblical Manhood
Biblical manhood involves cultivating, embracing, and exercising leadership initiative, especially spiritual leadership initiative. If we don’t do it, who is going to do it?
How to Pray in Your Dullest Moments?
Do you remember when movies and Facebook was a very, very little thing? Do you remember when your great desire was to read the Word and your great desire was to pray and your great desire was to be like him? And your great desire was to just be before him and somehow he would have noticed you? The …
3 Essential Marks of a Church That Most People Ignore
One of the lessons we can learn from the evangelical movement is that its central weakness was not epistemological. Its central weakness was not its commitment to the core doctrines of the Christian faith. It’s central weakness was ecclesiological – an undervaluing of the local church in particular. – Albert Mohler
Conflict Is Not The Problem, Avoiding Conflict Resolution Is
According to a study done by Focus on the Family, fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to spiritual burnout or contention in their churches.
3 Ways to Welcome Church Visitors
Easter Is A Big Deal Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Jesus rose from the dead. Nobody else has ever done that. And Jesus’ resurrection has changed the world. It has changed history. It has changed me, and millions of others. Easter is the …