There are moments when I almost despair at the state of Christianity in the United States. The percentage of Americans with no religious affiliation continues to increase, while the share of those identifying as Christian and attending worship services declines. … Continue reading Only by Prayer
January 7–13, 2024 is the 82nd Annual Assemblies of God Week of Prayer. The theme verse of the week is Habakkuk 3:2: “Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Repeat them in our day, in our … Continue reading Praying for Awakening in 2024
According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, the birth of Jesus Christ was attended by many miracles: angelic visitations, prophetic dreams, the miraculous birth of John the Baptist, and the virginal conception of Christ himself. The first Christmas, then, … Continue reading Did Christmas Really Happen? Part 1
A statement in Faith Beyond Youth Group captures the urgency of helping teenagers cultivate lifelong faith in Jesus Christ: While spiritual and religious activity under age eighteen seems to slightly increase the odds of faith lasting after youth group, a … Continue reading Cultivating Lifelong Faith in Teens
The October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, and Israel’s response to it, has raised anew questions about the morality of warfare. Throughout their long history, Christian thinkers have not had one mind about these questions, but the majority … Continue reading How War Can Be Just
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, … Continue reading Abraham Lincoln‘s Thanksgiving Proclamation
Humility is a biblical virtue. “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble” aptly summarizes Scripture’s plotline (James 4:6; cf. Proverbs 3:34). No wonder Peter urged Christians to “clothe yourselves with humility toward one another” (1 Peter 5:5). … Continue reading The Biblical Path to Christian Character
“To live holistically in the Spirit requires knowing that the Spirit guides us toward beauty, goodness and truth,” write Dr. Steven Félix-Jäger and Dr. Yoon Shin in their new book, Renewing Christian Worldview. “It also requires living out and desiring … Continue reading What Is a Pentecostal Worldview?
“The church’s growing irrelevance in parts of the United States as well as some other places in the world is not because Christianity has lost its brain but because it seems to have lost its heart,” writes Dr. Dennis Edwards. … Continue reading Humility — A Biblical Path to Christian Character
What does the Holy Spirit have to do with Christian worldview? Read evangelical books on the topic, and the answer seems to be, “Not much.” The index to one bestselling textbook, now in its sixth edition, lacks any reference to … Continue reading Beauty, Goodness, Truth and Pentecost
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