The New Heavens and The New Earth

In Revelation 21-22, we find something very familiar… we get a sense of deja vu if you will… it’s creation, recreated. C.S. Lewis said, “I believe man once lived in […]

The Nature of Our Resurrection

Is heaven a real place? Or is it merely symbolic? Wayne Grudem writes, “Stephen did not see mere symbols… It was rather that his eyes were opened to see a […]

The Call to Be Heavenly Minded

The man who is about to sail for Australia or New Zealand as a settler is naturally anxious to know something about his future home, its climate, its employment, its […]

Treasuring Jesus Over Treasuring Riches

Contentment is a feeling or showing satisfaction with one’s possessions, status or situation. The word literally means, “self-sufficiency” but not being independent in terms of not needing God; it’s a […]

A Charge to the Church to Persevere!

If the church is going to persevere and keep their eyes on Jesus, we need to be a people who run from sin, who pursue godliness, who fight for truth […]

The Gospel Leads to Eternal Joy

Sound Doctrine is a Christian’s starting point for a life of godliness and contentment. The core of sound doctrine is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Sound Doctrine – the Gospel […]

The Gospel and Slavery

Philip Graham Ryken said, “part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see, and to ignore what we want to ignore until it’s too late […]

What’s the Mission of the Church?

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Over the last 20-30 years, churches and individual Christians have plunged into short-term and long-term missions like never before. Thousands have been deployed: digging wells, building schools, caring for orphans, […]

Caring for Your Leaders

The culture of a church staff and its members should look different from the world. There should be a love and a respect that members and leaders have for one […]

Biblical Womanhood

There are no ordinary people. You have never met a mere mortal. → C. S. Lewis. We are all persons who will live an eternity, and a woman has an […]