A story in Acts 16:16-18 caught my attention recently: “It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling. Following after Paul and us, she...
It is a good thing to defend faith and take a stand for what is right. Scripture encourages us to be discerning and it is appropriate to call sin what it is and to expose injustice. Sometimes a battle is called for. But we don’t have to do it with anger....
There is sometimes confusion and misunderstanding in the church about who the Holy Spirit is and what His presence looks like in the life of a Christian. Some barely give his existence a passing thought, while others take it to the opposite extreme, attributing to him...
Most of us have likely encountered questionable teaching within the church. Sometimes, this comes from someone who has lifted a single phrase out of Scripture and built a doctrine around it. Maybe we have even done this ourselves, intentionally or not, as we focus on...
During the worst of the economic recession a few years ago, I heard story after story of people going through devastating financial challenges and forced downsizing of their homes. For most of us, this would be a tragedy but as many discovered, it could be a blessing....
