This must be the "week of the conscience" since I found another helpful tool to help us think through Christian liberty. How does this relate to the conscience? It is because to exercise Christian lib...  Read More

This is a helpful article that helps us walk through how our conscience works and how we can calibrate it to God's Word. It is interesting to see in the scripture that our conscience can be desensitiz...  Read More

During my sermon this past Sunday (March 22), I discussed how God graciously met Gideon where he was and answered Gideon's request to give him a sign with the fleece. This was after God had already pr...  Read More

This is a bit of a longer article that is a book review of Preston Sprinkle's latest book on women's roles in ministry. Sprinkle is a well-known apologist who has helped many in defending the faith.I ...  Read More

This is a great article by Trevin Wax on an instance when Harry Truman lost his cool in public - and the ensuing firestorm that ensued. It is short apologetic for the biblical virtue of self-control a...  Read More

This is helpful series designed to equip parents in helping disciple their children. This article focused on the question, "Why doesn't Jesus fix everything right now?" (A question many adults might a...  Read More

Tim Challies has some very practical and helpful approaches to help you build habits of healthy prayer into your life.......  Read More

This is an interesting article considering the impact AI will have on art and literature. The author considers that sports might be one of the true unknowns with imperfections that remain that add tex...  Read More

Back in January I posted the text of former Senator Ben Sass's announcement that he had stage 4 pancreatic cancer. It was a sobering yet joyful approach to how a believer can embrace death that is bea...  Read More

I've felt it the past few years as our church has grown - perhaps you have as well. How can I have meaningful relationships with everyone? It seems like every friendship or relationship would be shall...  Read More

This is a great article that considers what happens on Sunday morning: it is a weekly gathering of the saints for war against Satan and his lies. As the author notes:Gathering with the church seems li...  Read More

This is a first-person account of what happened at Cities Church in Minneapolis on January 18. I have previously posted on this, but thought this article by their lead pastor was so insightful and enc...  Read More

Tim Challies shares wisdom from a friend who recently went to be with the Lord. This man was able to reflect on his life as he was dying in a way that brought purpose to that death and glory to God. I...  Read More

A few weeks ago I read a deep dive article on Josephus the Jewish historian and how a disputed passage about Jesus has received greater clarity over time. This article is by the same author (who wrote...  Read More

As many of you know by now, this past Sunday anti-ICE protestors infiltrated a Baptist Church's worship service in Minneapolis and shut it down in protest, yelling and screaming at worshippers, includ...  Read More

In my sermon last Sunday I read part of an open letter that former Senator Ben Sasse wrote around Christmas in the wake of learning he has advanced pancreatic cancer. I had tremendous respect for him ...  Read More

Insecurity is often backed by unbelief in what God has promised his children. This is a helpful article in thinking through a mindset that affects most believers in some way. I love the way it conclud...  Read More

Back from a break for Christmas and the start of the year, The Front Porch kicks off with a helpful summary of what it means to be the member of a church. I see so many of you practicing this already ...  Read More

This Sunday we kick off an in-depth study of the book of Judges. Early on in the book we run into an issue that has been the subject of much discussion and even angst - the conquering of Canaan and th...  Read More

About a year ago, I saw a social media post from a pastor and national church leader who was (I think) trying to stir the pot of division by saying that the ONLY reason people raise their hands in the...  Read More

In our Sunday gathering this week I gave a quote from Athanasius, an early church father who fought heresies against the nature of Jesus being fully God and fully man. Athanasius paid dearly for his c...  Read More

Here's a deep dive on a vital doctrine for evangelical churches such as ours - the doctrine of sola scriptura. Many people get confused on what this exactly means. For instance, how do creeds and conf...  Read More

This is a short but helpful article to help us think through engaging as a congregation with the music we sing every Sunday.  Hint: it begins with not thinking, "what can I get out of this" as you wal...  Read More

I've been in ministry long enough to sees the latest ministry trends come and go. One of those is the concept of gospel centrality in all we do as a church. It was a catchword for a while and everythi...  Read More