1 Corinthians 1:23

A recent viewing of CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien" has got me in the mood for a rant. It concerns me greatly that Joel Osteen's success is giving him so many opportunities to speak in public forums. His bestselling books get him a seat at…

A recent viewing of CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien" has got me in the mood for a rant. It concerns me greatly that Joel Osteen's success is giving him so many opportunities to speak in public forums. His bestselling books get him a seat at…

By Elizabeth Prata This is my last day of summer. In fact, yesterday really was. Today I have a church event for 2/3 of the day. And tomorrow is the Lord’s Day. It was a good and relaxing tim……

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart, (2 Corinthian 4:1 NASB)…

“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And ho……

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart, (2 Corinthian 4:1 NASB)…

Unregenerate sinners arecompletely lost. Unaided and unilluminated, in his natural condition and without the gospel, the sinner will never find a way to God. In fact, he won’t be looking for it to begin with. “A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and …

In the opening words of his first epistle to the Corinthians, Paul wrote, “Christ did not send me to baptize, butto preach the gospel” (1 Corinthians 1:17, emphasis added). Just a few verses later, he wrote, “We preachChrist crucified” (1 Corinthians 1:23, emphasis added). Then a paragraph or two after that, he wrote again, “I …

Through the years I have had the pleasure of rubbing shoulders with noticeably wise people. I have learned from some while experiencing intimidation by others.…

This post was first published in January, 2014. —ed. Sadly and ironically, in its attempt to achieve cultural relevance, mainstream evangelicalism has become essentially irrelevant. As Os Guiness points out,[1]the seductive promise of “relevance” is, in reality, the road to irrelevance. When the church markets itself like the world, the distinctiveness of its message is …