Of all the big questions about our faith in Christ that we sometimes struggle with, one of the biggest is this: “Can anyone be saved?” On a microlevel people may wonder if there is hope for “themselves”, or hope for some person who seems incapable of doing what is right? On a macrolevel the question...
Just what does the true Christian life look like? That is not an easy question. To some people, truly following Jesus means adopting an unreachable standard. To others it means “doing no harm”, and after that, doing whatever they want. If you sense that neither extreme is really the truth, then you are invited to...
The question of just where women fit into the Kingdom of God is a subject that is hotly debated in many churches. Although Christianity is nothing like what is portrayed in, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, some Christians have been taught that God intends women to be subordinate to men, or at least to stay in their...
Many people today make little room for faith in God, or they hope to have just enough faith to get by. That is understandable. That is only human. But deep down, all of us know that that approach makes no sense. Either God is not real and therefore does not matter at all, or God...
To many people “Christian doctrine” has little to do with real faith. That is understandable if they associate the word doctrine with dry sermons and dusty books. In reality however, “Christian doctrine”, and even “theology”, are disciplines of thought that Christians developed in order to try to understand what God had done through Jesus Christ,...
When many Christians think of the Holy Spirit, they imagine overly emotional fanatics speaking in unknown tongues, faith-healers working miracles that can’t always be verified, and celebrity prophets making predictions about national elections, the way that football prognosticators regularly tell us who is going to win the big game. For these reasons and more, it...
