eternal life, God, Gospel, Holy Spirit, Jesus, John, salvation
Perhaps the most famous Bible verse is John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Jesus said this during a conversation with a higher-up Jewish leader,...
Acts, anger, evangelism, Gospel, grace, Holy Spirit, identity, Jesus, love, relationships, witnessing
In the evangelical Christian world, we often treat “witnessing” as something on our to-do list. It’s what we are supposed to do (but very few of us do it…). Never mind that non-Christians aren’t tasks to be checked off but human beings to...
believe, Church, discipleship, Ephesians, evangelism, God, Gospel, grace, Jesus, Luke, Matthew, salvation
I started reading a Bonhoeffer book last week. He wrote it in the 1930’s, but it reads as if he wrote it yesterday. Is the price that we are paying today with the collapse of organized churches anything else but an inevitable consequence of grace acquired too...
Bible, evangelism, God, Gospel, Jesus, love, Mark
“Jesus looked at him and loved him.” This sentence stole my breath yesterday. I came across it in the Gospel of Mark, where an account of Jesus’ interaction with a rich man is detailed. Mark 10:17-22 reads like this, 17 As Jesus started on his way, a...
1 Peter, apologetics, Bible, C.S. Lewis, evangelism, Gospel, Jesus, parenting
Before I became a Christian, I realized something pretty quickly about the teenagers in my public high school who believed in God: they had no idea why they believed what they believed. They couldn’t give me much of a reason to trust their belief system over...
1 John, 2 Timothy, Bible, Colossians, Exodus, faith, Galatians, God, Gospel, Isaiah, Jesus, John, Leviticus, Romans
Isaiah 43:11-13. I read it and smile. Because the Old Testament always points to the New. The Bible isn’t 66 books – it’s one book pointing us to our need for the one God. “I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior.”...
