The Way We Were

Introduction

When I was about 11 years old, I almost drowned. I was swimming in the pool at summer camp with my friends from church. I had graduated ...

A Reminder To Remember

C.S. Lewis once made a comment somewhere along the lines of, "Christians don't need to be instructed as much as they need to be reminded." ...

The Church in a Non-Christian Culture

A significant event takes place in Acts 7, marking a trend in church history that unfortunately continues to this day: persecution. In this text, Stephen, ...

You Get What You Give

Introduction

On February 3, 1998, Karla Faye Tucker was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, TX, for her role in a 1984 double homicide. In the ...

Radical Mercy

When I played football in high school, I realized that my size and ability would limit my chances of earning a "letter", so I decided to try out for ...

The Grace of God

One of the worst movies of all time, in my humble opinion, is Superman 2. Even though the movie wasn't very good, there was one scene that I really ...

What to Do When Your Life Is a Mess

Maybe I hang out with a rough crowd, but everyone that I know well enough to know the details of their life has, at some point, found themselves in ...

The Messiah On Trial

This is our second week in a series on the Passion of Christ. Last week, in Act One of this drama, we saw Jesus praying alone in the Garden of Gethsemane. ...

When Your Enemy Prospers

God spares Nineveh, and Jonah is angry. He said: God, I knew you'd do that. That's why I didn't go, because I know you're gracious and forgiving, and ...

When Your Enemy Prospers

When Your Enemy Prospers

by Bruce Larson

God spares Nineveh, and Jonah is angry. He said: God, I knew you'd do that. That's why I didn't go, because I ...

Some Way to Run a Farm

I would wager that the two predominant reasons I've heard people give for not being active in a church are: (1) people in the church seem just as lousy ...