When Pastor Joby Martin moved to Jacksonville, Florida, one of the first invitations he got was to the local greyhound racing track. The...

Pastor Tony Evans tells the story of a guy who visited his nutritionist and says, “I need some help changing my diet. Every time I go by...

Kids come out of the womb like the seagulls from Finding Nemo, going, “Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine! Mine! MINE!” I’ll bet your 2-year-old has...

Many people think that if Jesus paid it all, we now have this divine Visa card with an unlimited balance. We can just flash it whenever...

There are a number of more liberal theologians today who buck against the idea that Jesus’ death on the cross was a necessary payment for...

The fourth-century philosopher St. Augustine wasn’t raised as a Christian, and he ran with a pretty sketchy crowd as a teen. They...

The Apostle Paul taught in Romans that everybody—religious or irreligious, moral or immoral—is driven by worship. To worship something is...

Sometimes we lose the mind-blowing shock of the Apostle Paul’s first-century conversion. The number one enemy of Christianity...

What is it about the gospel that tempts people to feel ashamed? Even the Apostle Paul indicated that some people are going to feel this...

What is saving faith, and how do you know if you have it? Paul answers that question by looking at the life of one of the most important...

Imagine you were sick with the flu and I gave you this set of rules: Thou shalt not run a temperature, have the chills, sneeze, have a...

When I graduated high school, there was a girl that I had gone out with a few times, but we hadn’t had that DTR  (“define the...

The book of Romans was written right after Jews returned to the church in Rome after being banished for five years by Emperor Claudius...

I often get the question, “How were people saved in the Old Testament?” To answer this question, I usually follow the Apostle Paul’s...

Jews in Jesus’ day had a hard time understanding how Gentiles could be saved. Gentiles were so bad. They were the historic oppressors....

Comedian Brian Regan has a name for the guy at the party who manages to turn every conversation back toward himself: He’s a Me-monster....

This is the last of a four-part series on the self-evident nature of God. Be sure to go back and read Part 1 (If There Is No God, There...

Atheism seems to be making a small comeback. Beginning with Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation and Richard Dawkins’ The God...

I saw a statistic the other day that I thought was fascinating. High school students (not Christian students, by the way) were given a...

Occasionally we get this question: Should Christians celebrate Halloween? And, by “occasionally,” we mean “every Halloween.” On one side...