“But everyone knows faith is what you aren’t sure about,” the man said. “So how can you be sure of your salvation if it’s based on faith?” The man thought […]

What brings you joy? I am not asking about what stimulates you, excites you, or distracts you. I am asking what brings you joy? Have you ever considered that Jesus’ […]

If you read lots of Christian books, or watch lots of popular preachers on TV, you will notice that many of the most popular preachers and authors have stopped emphasizing […]

I am from Kentucky. I played basketball in high school for a small school in the Appalachian Mountains. As with many people my age who grew up in Kentucky, college […]

I met Bruce Wilkinson, then the head of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries, at Western Conservative Baptist Seminary in Portland Oregon in June of 1987. He was teaching a one-week […]

Philip Gulley is a Quaker minister and novelist whose fiction I greatly enjoy. Gulley is best known for writing in a humorous, Americana style, about the town of Harmony, Indiana, […]

Princeton Theological Seminary was going to give Tim Keller the “Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Witness.” Then critics complained about Keller’s traditional views that women and […]

A little more than a decade ago James White, a Calvinist apologist, and I debated the issues of faith and assurance in Oklahoma City. Today I received word from Shawn […]

Have you ever seen the scrambled words test? You are presented with a paragraph of text, and even though the words are scrambled, you can still read it without too […]

I’m the kind of person who overthinks things. There’s about three or four thousand books in my home library that can attest to that (not counting the books in my […]