We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.

Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative. The Bible must be read as a whole, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation, letting promise and fulfillment guide or expectations for what we will find there.

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?