Our culture tells us that stuff will make us happy, winning the lottery will make our lives care-free, and climbing to the top of the corporate ladder will give us a better view of life. The problem is that when we feed our spirit with material delicacies it gags, when we win the lottery we get paranoid trying to…..
Christian orthodoxy is the set of beliefs that have been put in place to protect the integrity of the deposit of faith handed down to us from Jesus. Orthodoxy is like a drawbridge into a castle of truth that allows one to enter without having to swim through the crocodile-laden moat of heresy. It is built with solid planks of…..
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only… (James 1: 22)
One of the more controversial issues in the church is the faith versus works debate. I believe the book of James is quite helpful in this regard because it points out that our salvation should be evident by the way our faith…..
Jesus didn’t die to make us happy. He died because He loved us so much that He didn’t want us to suffer from the consequences of our sin. Sadly, many of our churches have become clearing houses for therapy literature rather than hospitals for sinners. Trying to be PC, the church often transforms the Bible into a self-help book written…..