Pew Forum Survey Reports Shifts in the United States Religious Landscape
Based on interviews with more than 35,000 American adults, the Pew Forum has produced an extensive survey of the religious landscape. The Survey reports that the United States is on the verge of...
View ArticleFruits
Many of us have good works, Christians and non-Christians. But do we have good fruit? Colossians 1:10 reads, “And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please...
View ArticleSobriety Is Like a Divorce
The thing that most people tend to ignore about addiction is that it simply feels good. It's not popular, nor in most cases appropriate, to acknowledge why people get addicted to things. Whether it's...
View ArticleEyes Fixed on Him
“The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.” (Luke 4:20) * * * Rather than meditate on the story told in today’s text, I’d like to riff on this one sentence and think about the spaces in...
View Article13 Reasons Christians Don’t Have to Be Afraid
Fear is like the monster under my kids’ beds — it’s power is fueled not by what’s really there, but by what might be, what we imagine could be. Fear is a hollow darkness in the future that reaches back...
View ArticleOrphan Man with Umbr
Orphan Man with Umbrella, Seen from the Back – Vincent van GoghCategories: Pinterest(Read more...)
View ArticleLeonardo da Vinci, S
Leonardo da Vinci, Studies of the Arm showing the Movements made by Biceps (ca. 1510).Categories: Pinterest(Read more...)
View ArticleZero Dark Thirty and the value of ambiguity
Zero Dark Thirty, a dramatization of the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden, is up...
View ArticleWhy the Rest of Your Week Matters to God
In general, the church has done a fine job equipping Christians for the "private" areas of their lives: prayer, morality, family life, and so on. But what about equipping people for the "public" parts...
View ArticleLoneliness Is My Best Friend
One of the most difficult aspects of my life since becoming a follower of Christ has been in figuring out relationships. Everything seemed so simple and easy before I was a Christian. It was clear...
View ArticleMy Only Response - AMEN - Lectio Divina
He read it aloud from daybreak till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate in the presence of the men, women and others who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the...
View ArticleOne Opportunity Every Church Pastor Should Know About
I’m excited because this month at Liquid Church we are launching a massive campaign to get up to 3,000 people to read the entire New Testament Bible in 40 days all together as a community. If you...
View ArticleThe promise in our season of overwhelming sorrow
When tempted in our season of overwhelming sorrow to say, “Never has there been so dark a cloud, never a heart so stripped and desolate as mine!” Let this thought hush every murmur, “It is your...
View ArticleStrength for the Journey: “A Season of Discontent” (Part Two) – Numbers 11
Benjamin Franklin once wrote: “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.” It is possible that you have complained once or twice in your life… or this week… or before you arrived...
View ArticleCharleston, South Carolina
Eric will be delivering the Hamrick Lectures at the First Baptist Church of Charleston on Sunday evening, January 27th, and ...Read More
View ArticleHeidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 4 (God’s Justice)
9. Question: Is God, then, not unjust by requiring in His law what man cannot do? Answer: No, for God so created man that he was able to do it.[1] But man, at the instigation of the devil,[2] in...
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