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Edith and Francis Schaeffer’s Ministry to Children
By Cynthia S. Fischer
The Schaeffers ministry to children holds many implications and admonitions for the church today.
Connecting a Congregation with God’s Word
By Carmen Sechrist
Champagne’s Sunday sermons are inspired by the previous week’s readings, which has helped keep congregants engaged and enthusiastic about the commitment to God’s Word.
Friendship in the Valley of the Shadow of Death
By Megan Fowler
As Andrews disease appeared and progressed, Ed helped guide Andrew and his wife, Amy, through the wilderness of terminal illness.
How to Repent of Slander in a Digital Age
By Jay Sklar, Covenant Theological Seminary
What happens if we have slandered someone publicly and want to repent? What does true repentance look like?
For McElrath, Sponsler, and countless other Christians in the sciences, the daily work of science is not a battle with their secular colleagues. Rather, the battle is with their own sinful natures.
“Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened.” – C.S. Lewis
For Christians, This is a Time for Confidence
By Richard Doster
There are sound reasons ?to trust God in our ?post-Christian culture.
A diminished view of union with Christ, Wilbourne believes, brings a diminished view of salvation: We may know what Christ saved us from, but we lost sight of what God has saved us for.
Christians struggle with prayer. So much so, says Paul Miller, author of A Praying Life, that only about 10 percent of believers claim to have an effective or meaningful prayer life.
Perseverance of the Saints
By Michael A. Milton
Perseverance of the Saints cannot be reduced to once saved, always saved. That phrase does not tell the whole Story of the biblical doctrine.