They are more open than you think. By Eric Metaxas, Christian Post. Your unchurched friends are not unreachable. How do I know? They’ve said so themselves. We’ve all heard the statistics about the growth of the religiously unaffiliated in America — the sociologists call them the “nones” — those who don’t belong to any church…
By Clara Hinton, NewsOK (Edmond, Okla.). The Rev. Mateen Elass, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Edmond, is leaving the pastorate to devote his time to preaching the Christian Gospel to Muslims. He also wants to help equip the Christian Church to effectively do the same. The Rev. Mateen Elass looks back on his…
By Robert P. George, Touchstone. The days of socially acceptable Christianity in the West are surely over. The days of comfortable Christian orthodoxy are past. It is no longer easy to be a faithful Christian, a good Catholic, an authentic Evangelical witness to the truths of the gospel. A price is demanded and must be…
By Rachel Lee, Christianity Daily. Pastor Paul Kim is the senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, located in San Diego, CA. Though Redeemer is a multi-ethnic, multi-generational church with over 1,000 regular members, Kim himself comes from the Korean immigrant church background. “I grew up in the Korean church, and I was a part of…
By Greg Gilbert and Sebastian Traeger As a Christian, you are a fully credentialed ambassador of the empire of Jesus, High King of the universe. God has entrusted to you the message of reconciliation, the good news that Jesus reconciles rebels to God. That’s as true from 9-5 Monday through Friday as it is for…
By Erick Erickson I like Ann Coulter. There is no “but” after that. I like Ann Coulter, period. There are many people reacting with hostility and anger toward her over her latest column about the doctors in Atlanta who are infected with Ebola. In her column, Ann asks, “What was the point?” She goes on…
By Christina Fox The gospel saved me. “That’s elementary,” you might be thinking. Yes, the gospel, the truths of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection, appropriated by faith, have saved me for all eternity. But that’s not the salvation about which I am thinking. The gospel saved me from my pit of despair. I have battled…
By Napp Nazworth WASHINGTON — The days of acceptable Christianity in America are over, so in order to be a faithful witness to the gospel, Christians must be willing to suffer the costs of discipleship, Dr. Robert P. George declared in a Tuesday speech. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and chair of…
By Tim Challies I think I may be leaving one phase of fatherhood behind even while I enter into another. My youngest child is just about to turn eight, which means that we are not only past the baby and toddler stages, but even nearing the end of the little kid phase. Meanwhile my oldest…
By Timothy Tennent Many of us are watching with sadness the emerging, seemingly inevitable, separation (however amicable) between the so-called progressives and the so-called conservatives in the United Methodist Church. By any read of the situation, the UMC of the 21st century stands in grave peril. It would be too simplistic to say that it…