300 Years Later
The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress 241 years ago. The Constitution was ratified 228 years ago. A lot has changed in 200 years. Do you think the Founding Fathers would be pleased with the progress of freedom in this country? Would they think we were faithful to their vision? I […]
Pee-Ew!
“Pee-ew!” my four year old daughter exclaimed, dramatically waving her hand in front of her nose. “Daddy, the sandbox really stinks. The cats pooped in it a LOT!” “But, haven’t you been playing in it for the last hour!?! You still played in it even though you knew it was full of poop? Isn’t Zane […]
John Piper Unquestionably Believes in Salvation by Works
A reader alerted us to this quote from John Piper. It appears in the Foreword to Thomas Schreiner’s Faith Alone: The Doctrine of Justification (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2015). As Tom Schreiner says, the book “tackles one of the fundamental questions of our human condition: how can a person be right with God?” The stunning […]
When Was Abraham Justified?
When was Abraham justified before God? We don’t know when Abraham first came to believe in God, or when the Lord first spoke to him. We do know that Abraham was 75 years old when, at God’s command, he departed Haran for the promised land (Gen 12:4). But, presumably, Abraham had come to believe in […]
We Need to Talk
“Umm, we need to talk….” Those are words no one wants to hear. Whether it’s your spouse, your boss, your teacher, or a friend, from the moment you hear those words, to the moment you have the meeting, your life will probably be filled with anxiety. “What did I do?” “What kind of trouble am […]
A Back-Loaded Gospel: The Error of Redefining Faith
By Shawn Lazar {This is Chapter 3 from the new book Beyond Doubt: How to Be Sure of Your Salvation} My college roommate had a talent for card tricks. It infuriated me. He had this one trick called The Slapstick. First, he’d shuffle a deck of cards and ask me to pick one without showing […]
An Easy Way to Share Your Faith
I was flying back from Portland when I tried an easy way to evangelize, taught to me by good friend, Dr. Steve Lewis, President of Rocky Mountain Seminary. Here’s how it works. If you meet someone who professes to believe in Jesus, you ask them, “Would you like to know an easy way to share […]
Is the Godman a Contradiction
Is it a contradiction to say that Jesus is both 100% God and 100% man? I was talking to a fellow believer who said it was a contradiction, but that he believed it anyway. I tried to explain why it wasn’t a contradiction at all, and that if it were, he literally couldn’t believe it. […]
Paradoxical Evangelism
A psychologist friend recently came back from a missions trip to Muslim Africa. He said he used the “paradoxical intervention technique” while evangelizing and found it worked. It went something like this… My friend starts talking to a Muslim shopkeeper and mentions he’s a Christian from America. Shopkeeper: Do you Christians really believe in three […]
The Meat and Water Diet
My wife and I like to try different diets for our health. I need to lose weight. She has Hashimoto’s and experiments to see how food affects her energy levels. Mediterranean. Paleo. Keto. Juicing. Dukan. Vegetarian. We’ve tried them all. Then I came across the Zero Carb Diet. It’s exceedingly simple. On the Zero Carb […]