"Adult" Movies Aren't for Adults

A pretty good case can be made that the "adult movies" for "mature audiences" actually are designed to attract only the most juvenile ...

A Perilous Theory

"If it works, that must be God blessing it." So stated, no intelligent Christian would endorse this motto.

Wealth Doesn't Equal Blessing

There is no way, if you take the whole counsel of God's Word, that you can equate riches or material things as a sign of God's blessing.

Enjoying God's Blessings

If our Lord is permitted to create nice large pike and good Rhine wine, presumably I may be allowed to eat and drink.

Missing the Miracles

Too many times we miss so much because we live on the low level of the natural, the ordinary, the explainable. We leave no room for God to do the exceeding ...

Hard Assignments

We do not want suffering; we want success. We identify not with those who are low and hurt but with those who are high and healthy. We don't like ...

Misplaced Passion

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

When Good Business Is Bad Business

The church appears to be adopting the principles and practices of big business and finding these practices very effective.

Now there is nothing wrong with ...

Busyness as Addiction

The Desert Fathers (a protest movement against worldliness in the early church) spoke of busyness as "moral laziness." Busy-ness can also be ...

World Movers

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.