Fear-Driven Churches Create Three Kinds of Christians
Believers can become scared of God, outsiders, and their own communities—but those aren’t the only options.
Opinion
Editorial: Can we agree to disagree?
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Conservative mainstream. Moderate mainstream. Non-institutional. Non-Sunday school. Progressive. Instrumental. One cup. Mutual edification. Little c. Big C. Doctrinally sound. Churches of Christ seem to […]
Loneliness is as deadly as smoking. The Church has an answer
Coffee shops, theaters, libraries, and rec centers are closing across America, and people are staying home The cost is higher than we think chronic loneliness carries the same mortality risk as
Sharia law vs. the US Constitution: Texas is a warning America can't ignore
America has not become a Sharia-governed nation, and that is exactly why this moment matters The question is whether we set the constitutional boundary before competing authority takes root
Why the book of Enoch is not Scripture
The book of Enoch has captured the imagination of many Christians, and some now argue it belongs in the Bible But Jesus own view of Scripture, the book s surprising messianic claims and the verdict
Does Trump 2.0 Care About Religious Freedom Abroad?
The president nominated Billy Graham’s granddaughter to lead a gutted religious freedom office. She’ll have her work cut out for her.
God isn't waiting for you to find Him. He's constantly chasing you
The Good Shepherd has not lost you in the valley simply because you cannot see Him clearly right now
Jesus' divinity wasn't invented by a council. Jews already believed it
The first Christians did not smuggle a foreign god into Israel s faith
Never forget? I bet you will
Kudos also to Bill Maher for ripping media outlets for deliberately refusing to use the word “terrorism” to describe what happened.If you think I’m making mountains out of molehills here, then please step back for a moment and ask yourself if there are any parallels with the 9/11 “forgetting” and another, larger-scale tragedy.Following WWII, “Never Forget” and “Never Again” became moral imperatives raised by writers like Nazi survivor Elie Wiesel and global communities at large to keep attention on the Holocaust and ensure its true history stayed alive. And it all happens because of an even greater kind of “forgetting.”Forgetting GodAleksandr Solzhenitsyn identified the cause of our primary, reckless amnesia years ago in a speech discussing 20th century atrocities that many call “The Great Forgetting”: “Today’s world has reached a stage which, if it had been described to preceding centuries, would have called forth the cry: “This is the Apocalypse!” Yet we have grown used to this kind of world; we even feel at home in it … we have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”Scripture warns countless times about forgetting God and what happens when we do. The biblical pattern is there for all to read: God blesses, people become comfortable, people forget God, turn away, and rebellion follows.For example, God warned ancient Israel: “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them, and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Deut.
The Lord's Supper doesn't give grace. It celebrates it
When Paul says the Corinthians are eating in an unworthy manner, he is not introducing a rule about private sin
