Peter: What’s in a Name?
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains the battle between the temptation of sin and the call to spirituality in leadership.
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains the battle between the temptation of sin and the call to spirituality in leadership.
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains three raw materials of leadership: being inquisitive, having initiative, and being involved.
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains the place of life experience in leadership.
What characterizes biblical leadership? This article considers Christ’s training of Peter in order to show that submission is something that should characterize leadership.
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, this article explains two characteristics of leadership: compassion and courage.
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains three characteristics of leadership: restraint, humility, and servanthood.
How do you know if you are growing spiritually? Here are eight signs that point to true biblical sanctification in your life.
This article provides an introduction to the prophecy of Zephaniah.
If worship does not change us it has not been worship.
It is difficult to see how Christianity can have a positive effect on society if it cannot transform its own homes.
Forgiveness is the soil in which spiritual fruits and divine blessings are cultivated. This article explains that extending forgiveness to others brings great blessings upon the Christian life.
The restoration of Peter as recorded in John 21:15-17 teaches us that obedience is the essential evidence of genuine love.
Who was Phoebe? Was she a deaconess? How did she serve the church? What does this mean for women in the church today? From Romans 16:1-2 this article tackles these questions.
Christians are expected to put on the helmet of salvation for their engagement in spiritual warfare. What is the helmet of salvation and why is it important? The article explains from Ephesians 6:17.
What offices did God give to his church? This article explains the list of gifted men and spiritual gifts from 1 Corinthians 12:28-30. Among these gifts are apostles, prophets, and teachers.
Does every believer have a guardian angel? Does not Matthew 18:10 imply that believers have guardian angels? The article engages with these questions
What ought to be the character of one's pastoral ministry? Based on 1 Thessalonians 2, this article explains six things should characterize one's leadership.
How do you draw near to God in a way that you can discover his wonders? This article addresses this question, explaining that true worship is drawing near to God in a mind renewed by the truth of God. It offers some pointers on how to prepare for worship.
How do you deal with problem people in the church? 1 Thessalonians 5:14 identifies three groups of problem people: unruly, fainthearted, and weak. This article explains how do you deal with such church members.
This article shows that the only logical consequence of confessing the inerrancy of Scripture is expository preaching. Such preaching is the only method that preserves the purity of Scripture.
This article explains how the New Testament authors could say that the second coming of Christ was imminent, even though now 2,000 years have passed and he has yet to return. The day is still at hand today, since no other events need to happen on the prophetic calendar before the return of Christ.
This article discusses the kind of love we need to show, in light of Ephesians 5:1-3.
This article makes a case for long-term ministry in one place. It offers four suggestions that may enable one to sustain such a ministry.
This article explains the humiliation of Christ from an Old Testament perspective, with a focus on Isaiah 52:14.
This article features some of the major characteristics of the decree of God, with ample biblical support.
John 14:16-17 explains the importance of the work of the Holy Spirit in counselling. This article explains how this is so by referring to the Holy Spirit as the One who dwells in us, as the Comforter and as the truth teacher.
Chapter 2 addresses man’s ill-motivated interest in heaven, angels, and the afterlife. Much of this interest flows from gullible superstition, Gnosticism, occultism, or New Age philosophies. The author examines popular claims to near-death experiences, including Todd Burpo’s claims to being a visitor to heaven.
What is heaven and what might it be like? Heaven is often associated with the life hereafter. In chapter 1 of this book, the author attempts to explain why every major religion and every significant culture in human history has had some notion of heaven or “paradise.” Different names are used: nirvana, Elysium, Valhalla, Utopia, Shangri-La, etc.
This article addresses one of the main weaknesses of the seeker-sensitive approach to the church's worship service, which is the lack of participation of the rest of the congregation members in ministry.
This article is about the eternal sonship of Jesus Christ, and Jesus as the only begotten son of the Father. The author also discusses Hebrews 1:5, the eternal generation of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ of the same essence as his Father.