Evangelicalism in America has officially divided. There is no more middle ground. Those leaders and ministries still trying to straddle the middle are quickly dying out. There are only two options left: Courageous Christianity or Apostasy.
Evangelicalism in America has officially divided. There is no more middle ground. Those leaders and ministries still trying to straddle the middle are quickly dying out. There are only two options left: Courageous Christianity or Apostasy.
Faithful preaching includes 1) revelation (a text), 2) interpretation (exegesis), and 3) application (how we should then live). The “Gospel-Centered Movement” worked hard over the past 20 years to train Evangelicals to despise that last part. They were highly successful.
Joshua reminds the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh of the advantages they had received in being the first tribes settled. The Lord had already appointed to them a particular land for rest, which apparently was uncontested. And yet, they are commanded by Joshua to aid their brothers in the fight for their land so that they might …
The greatest testimony is not an ex-gang member converted to Christ, but a Christian who can never remember a single day when they did not profess Christ as Lord.
It is one thing to salute the doctrine of God’s sovereignty, it is quite another to joyfully submit to God’s sovereign providence as it unfolds in our lives.
May we never forget that God killed an entire generation of Israelites in the wilderness because of their sin of grumbling. The sin of grumbling reveals an even deeper sin: The sin of unbelief.