IntroductionEvangelicals exhibit a mysterious suspicion of the assurance of salvation. And so it is that lots of Christians struggle with a lack of assurance. They have anxiety about the final state o...  Read More

It's hard to date the beginning of the madness. Maybe you trace it to the death of George Floyd in May of 2020, the shooting of Michael Brown in August of 2014, the creation of Black Lives Matters in ...  Read More

IntroductionThe Industrial Revolution changed the world. In some ways, the changes have been good. In some ways, they haven’t been. The changes are more than just HVAC units and electricity. The Indus...  Read More

IntroductionThe inner ring is the sort of club where it is not easy to tell who is inside and who is outside. There is no formal admission procedure and no protocol for expulsion. There is usually a c...  Read More

IntroductionThe word “bless” is a regular part of life in the South. Clerks conclude the transaction with “Have a blessed day.” Little old ladies conclude the gossip huddle with “Bless his heart.” Fam...  Read More

Nat Hentoff said that “Fiction is sometimes more real than fact … it can tell you more than facts.” What follows is a fictional conversation.Cherry: Cleo, why are you proposing that we let people who ...  Read More

Many of you are now in the midst of memorizing Psalms for our annual Psummer Psalms (thanks to Daron Drown for organizing this event every year). This is where you pick a Psalm, memorize it, and then ...  Read More

IntroductionHook-up culture is now a problem in the evangelical church, which has high rates of fornication. Men expect sex after two or three dates and too many women comply. Sexual confusion is inhe...  Read More

In Mark 6:7-13 Jesus sends the twelve disciples out on an authorized mission. The word used for “send” in Mark 6:7 is apostello, which is a cognate of the word apostle. So the disciples are on an offi...  Read More

IntroductionSo you are about to graduate High School and head off to college. Your college experience may be the first time you interact with the broader evangelical world. You’ve heard us talk at chu...  Read More

God made human beings in his image as people who require knowledge (Prov. 18:15). To argue otherwise, to argue that we don’t require knowledge, is to spit in the face of the doctrine that says that hu...  Read More

IntroductionIn 1952 the minister Norman Vincent Peale published his best-selling book, The Power of Positive Thinking. It sold 2.5 million copies from 1952 – 1956 and serves as one of the pillars of t...  Read More