Once upon a time, in a world far, far away churches had prayer meeting every week. People knew that coming to church in the middle of the week was primarily for praying, even though a few other activities took place as well. Everyone knew that praying was the purpose and the focus of the meeting.…

There is a lot of talk about revival lately. Even secular media types referred to the events surrounding Charlie Kirk’s memorial service as a “Christian revival.”  However, the discussion is not new, it is just amplified in the wake of Kirk’s assassination.  Young people are returning to religion in record numbers. Videos of mass baptisms…

We are talking about the September/October edition of FrontLine with some of our authors. The subject of this edition was “Using Your Words: Glorifying God with Language.” The issue hit on various aspects of things we say, good and bad, and what the Christian perspective should be. Today’s discussion is with Preston Mayes, who teaches…

As today is “Reformation Day,” the anniversary of Luther posting his 95 Theses to the doors of Wittenburg, I’ll echo a truth that he captured from Romans by looking at Galatians 2:16–21: we are justified by faith alone. Setting the Context In leading up to this passage, Paul has given an introduction (Gal 1:1–5) and…

Should we build our theology off the teaching of the apostles or the teaching of Jesus? Probably, to most of the people reading a post like this, such a question sounds absurd. Why would we need to choose? Jesus and the apostles were both inspired writers of Scripture, so everything they say agrees and it…

“Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples” (Luke 11:1b). The disciples voice an often heartfelt sentiment of Christians everywhere. Who among us really feels that we understand and practice prayer as God intended? Who among us would say, “I’m confident that my prayer life is more than adequate”? No mature believer…

The Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah, delivered a series of warnings from God to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem to turn from their sin and to keep the covenant they had with God from the time of their exodus out of Egypt. Jeremiah gave some of these messages to the kings in Judah throughout the…

Peter Thiel and New York Times editor, Ross Douthat, differ about the nature of the Antichrist. Yep. It’s true. People in the business and media mainstream are now talking about the Antichrist—and they are talking about it seriously, not just in some derogatory manner. Peter Thiel is giving lectures about the rise of the Anti-Christ…

We’re discussing the September-October issue of Frontline, which had the theme, “Using Your Words: Glorifying God with Language.” This issue of the magazine is full of helpful articles and we will be talking to a few of our authors to give you a bit more than they had time for in the magazine. Today’s conversation…

The rapture is the event in which “the dead in Christ will rise first” and “then we who are alive, who are left” are “caught up together… in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17). We can never know when exactly the rapture will take place, but Scripture at least…