Understanding what the Bible says about hell is one of the most avoided conversations in the modern church, and that avoidance has left many sincere Christians without a coherent understanding of something that Jesus spoke about more than almost any other topic in His ministry. The silence from pulpits on this subject is understandable. Hell…
Understanding what the Bible says about heaven is one of the most personally significant things a Christian can explore, and yet most believers carry a picture of heaven that is drawn more from culture than from Scripture. The popular image of heaven tends toward clouds, harps, and a kind of eternal Sunday afternoon that honestly…
The signs of the end times are one of the most searched and most mishandled topics in all of Christian teaching, and the gap between what the Bible actually says and what popular culture has turned it into is worth addressing honestly. Every generation in church history has believed it was living in the final…
The biblical call to waiting for marriage is one of the most counter-cultural things a Christian can hold onto in a world that treats the idea as outdated, unrealistic, and slightly amusing, and it is also one of the most misunderstood commitments in the church. Most of the conversation around this topic in church settings…
The biblical meaning of faith is one of those concepts that every Christian hears about constantly but far fewer have actually explored with the depth and honesty it deserves. You can grow up in church, sing about faith every Sunday, hear sermons about it every month, and still carry a version of faith that is…
The evidence of spiritual growth that you are having as a Christian can be more subtle than you realize and that is why many good-hearted Christians spend many years wondering if they are growing at all. It is difficult for a person to recognize spiritual growth. Now, it’s not a certificate nor a sense of…
Searching for what the Bible says about fear and anxiety in the KJV is one of the most honest things a person can do when the weight of worry has become too heavy to carry alone. Fears and anxieties are nothing new. They are as ancient as man. David wrote about them in the Psalms….
What the Bible says about toxic relationships is something that many believers don’t fully investigate, and it costs them years of avoidable pain in friendships, family, and romantic relationships as they slowly pull them away from the person God wants them to be. The Bible doesn’t contain the word toxic. But the ideas behind it…
The question of what the Bible says about dating a non believer is one that tends to make people uncomfortable in church settings, partly because the answer requires more honesty than most people are ready for, and partly because so many sincere Christians are already in exactly that situation when they start asking it. If…
If you’re like most Christians, you can’t list the 66 books of the Bible in order right now without looking. If you pondered for just a second, you’re not alone. The overwhelming majority of us, even those who’ve been going to church for many years, haven’t memorized all of them. And that’s a problem, because…