Christianity is never more than one generation from extinction. Regardless of our personal fervency for the Lord, if we fumble the baton transfer, we lose the race. Fumbling our faith is not an option.
But these are all the wrong questions—at least the wrong starting questions. If we desire to be consecrated followers of Jesus, we must evaluate music with a different set of questions: Does this music glorify Jesus? Does it draw us closer to Jesus? Does it make us more like Jesus?
For all of the benefits that I have received from blogging, however, there are a few bloggers that are giving the rest of us a bad name. These fellows do not offer “apples of gold in pictures of silver.” Rather, they are bad apples.
Spiritual metamorphosis is God’s greatest desire and delight. He sent His Son into this world to die on a cross so that our old sinful nature could be changed into a new nature. All of us by nature are sinners and condemned to die, but God through His Son has provided a free gift of salvation whereby we might suddenly be made righteous in His sight.
Christian homes are becoming scarce. The once-common model of parenting—in which dad and mom stood and sacrificed together to steer their children to adulthood—has been disassembled and cheaply improvised by a godless culture.
Because God has made each of us unique in our personality, conflicts will emerge. No couple is identical in their thinking, attitude, or behavior. Thus, conflict is not the problem. How we respond to those conflicts is the issue!
One of the greatest modern myths is that there are no essential differences between men and women. This is unbiblical, unreasonable, and dangerous to your marriage.
When diagnosing the health of your church, you may notice your church is busy but not spiritually growing. You and the church are doing everything you have done before, but new Christians are not being saved, baptized, and discipled.
