We’ve all heard it. There is a decision to be made in your life; you reach out for help. The most well intentioned, heart-felt friends say these comforting words to you:, “Just follow your heart.” Ahhh….yes. “Follow your heart,” sounds innocent enough. No harm or foul play there, right? Wrong! This sort of melodrama is… Continue Reading
Why Young People are Slamming the Church Doors Shut
“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth” (3 John 1:4). Young people are leaving the church in record numbers. Disgruntled youth declare, “Religion is not for me.” Raised in the Church their entire life, they simply walk away from their faith. They not only walk away… Continue Reading
How Christians Live Like Atheists
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none who does good (Psalm 53:1). How Christians Live Like Atheists You would not think of jumping out of a flying plane without a parachute. This exercise in “Extreme-spiritual-stunts” is exactly what you participate… Continue Reading
Four Tips Christians Can Use to Inspect Their Own Fruit
You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles (Matthew 7:16, NLT)? In the produce department of the grocery store the other day, I saw an elderly woman inspecting a cantaloupe, trying to decide which one to buy. She… Continue Reading