There you have it! A man with the most despicable life imaginable, at the last possible moment of life, made a profession of faith, to which God said “yes”. He did nothing to earn this, nor could he do anything to prove his worth afterwards. Instead, an exception to the rule, this man was ushered from conversion, to im-mediate death, to judgment. There he found that hi...

You will experience the Spirit-ual Octane-Boosted life. As you do, let your gratefulness for your new life propel you into witnessing to those around you. Some of them are driving their lives into the doom of hell. Others may or may not be saved, and need to know how you’ve learned to live by the Spirit-powered, faith-fueled new life in Christ. Both kinds of people will ...

Unless we return to this fight (witnessing), one of these doomsayers is gonna be right and the sky is going to fall on us. Unless we return to training for this fight (discipleship), we will keep fighting the wrong bat-tles, with each other and the world. Unless we return to going to the arena to cheer on our Champion Jesus (worship), we will shout ourselves voiceless in a...

Now, more than ever, we need to fall down before God and plead his mercy on us. We need to be wary of falling into the various us-vs-them traps Satan uses when God’s people begin to observe something is stink-ing up the Church. We need to plead for our own humility, looking for where we might be guilty of devalu-ing, defacing, or detracting from the gospel of Christ. And...

America’s right to “free speech” is enshrined in the idea of the open public square, where anyone is allowed to set up their soap-box and bellow out the message they think their fellow citizens need to heed. With this SCOTUS decision, the soap box has been forcibly removed, and replaced with a guillotine. Mark these words and watch as what are now only implication-pr...

This is what the Millennial-none needs: a believer, secure in a Spirit-born faith, to trust God and take the gospel to them. Yes, skepticism will be wide and deep in the Millennial-none’s life. Yet the Spirit who gives true new life will cause our light, Jesus himself, to shine in our words and ways. He will lead them to a faith that ends both their slavery and their wan...

This is why we pray for revival. It is a good expression of our faith to learn how to witness, to develop lists of people we know need Jesus, and to strategize on how to give them the gospel. Yet apart from the Spirit’s effective presence, we labor in vain. Apart from the Spirit’s powerful response, our efforts will be for naught, so much exertion of our energy without...

If Jesus were a superhero, one of his titles would rightly be The Abominator. The gospel begins with this horrible truth that all of us are so fully and truly abominations before the Lord that we have no hope of ever finding even the possibility of peace with God. Yet, God who justly hates us in our abominations has also chosen to love us in them! He sent Jesus to become t...

We who have Jesus have a shame-free hope, one that is both the right quality and quantity that secures our true purpose-in-life. Let us take the message of this sure hope back to our community!...

Surely the coronavirus is a crown of judgment. Yet until Jesus returns it is a crown that warns people to flee to Jesus to escape the coming judgment from which there is no hope of escape. Let us recommit ourselves proclaiming this good news echoed in this crown of judgment....

Rejection is a bad thing, right? Unless it is one of the three manners of rejection that God uses in the ministry of the gospel. Without these three manners of rejection, there is no true salvation....

Unless and until we get back to telling folks that, there is little hope that the soft-prosperity/life-coaching/sin-neglecting gospel will make any difference for them. Instead, as they discover this gospel is worthless, they will continue to abandon the church. May we repent and return to offering them Jesus, the only wellspring of the soul!...