The greatest Christian leaders for the last two thousand years have maintained that Romans is the most important theological book ever...

We drafted this post prior to the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd—and the subsequent protests around the...

If I ever had the chance to ask the Apostle Paul what his purpose was, I would have expected him to begin with his Damascus Road...

Less than two months after Jesus had died on the cross and resurrected from the dead, the Spirit that Jesus had promised to his disciples...

When Paul talks about wisdom in areas where Scripture is not clear, he makes it clear that unity is more important than uniformity. Many...

Reading Romans 16 reminds me of a tradition my family had growing up on New Year’s Day. My mom would cook corned beef and cabbage, which...

I’m just going to make my stance clear, once and for all, because I know many people have wondered and speculated about it. I am of the...

The church has one mission. As Paul puts it in Romans 15:21, our job is to ensure that “… those who have never been told of him will see,...

My youth pastor growing up encouraged us to offer our lives as “blank checks” to God. When you gave someone a blank check, you signed...

For the believer, the way you know you’ve really been released from bitterness is you weep in your enemy’s pain and rejoice in their...

During the summer at one of our Summit campuses, an Afghan woman—I’ll call her Hadiya—showed up to VBS and, with a very limited...

Not everything that comes from heaven has your name on it. While all Christians are called to evangelize, give, serve, and pray (among...

This may surprise you, but I’m not an expert on butterflies. I do recall a few key insights from one of my favorite books, The Very...

Many cultural Christians think church is a good thing, but they are not committed. They are not involved in any ministry. They don’t...

A friend of mine was diagnosed with a very serious and deadly form of cancer. It looks like it may rob him of some of the best years of...

The Apostle Paul says that at the core of all our sin is idolatry. He didn’t just mean bowing down to statues (though that counts)....

I once heard the story about an Army officer who had just been promoted to Colonel. He was feeling pretty high on himself and kept...

In the Apostle Paul’s day, there were 613 written, Old Testament laws that Jews strictly adhered to. If that sounds like a lot, it is....

One of the most common objections to evangelical Christianity today is the question of why a “good God” wouldn’t just save everybody. If...

They say the value of something is shown only by what someone is willing to pay for it. Joby Martin, a pastor in Jacksonville, calls this...