Today, let’s think about this pressing subject not for nonbelievers but for Christ-followers. After nearly forty years of pastoral ministry, I can testify that Christians can also be fearful of death. While we know that Jesus is our Savior and that our eternal life is guaranteed by his grace (cf. John 3:16; John 11:26), we can nonetheless fear death for several reasons.
The American Bible Society's annual State of the Bible survey recently found that regular readers of the Bible both faced more stress and more hope in 2020.
Why does the secularized culture seem to be winning as the church seems to be receding? Here’s one factor: We must do what God says to experience what he intends. Jesus instructed us to remove anything that causes us to sin (Matthew 18:8-9). We must let go of all that is not of God and surrender all that is. Then and only then can he use us fully.
Perception is not always reality. Truth is more than “my truth.” If we are going to engage our secularized culture with biblical truth, we must believe it to be the truth, since such engagement with moral issues faces greater opposition than ever before in American history.
Relevance is the currency of our culture. While Paul quoted Greek philosophers to reach Greek philosophers (Acts 17:28) and quoted the Hebrew Bible to reach Jews (cf. Acts 17:1-4), you and I live in a society that measures “truth” by its results in its adherents.
An Oklahoma family has been reunited with their late mother’s Bible from 1946 after a man found it on his front lawn.
Hobby Lobby has filed a lawsuit against a former classics professor at Oxford University. The professor is accused of selling the company stolen ancient fragments containing Biblical texts.
An Illinois school has reversed course after it banned a little girl from reading her Bible during recess.
Despite the original publishers dropping the God Bless the USA Bible last week, the controversial Bible is still on track to be published.
This week, Zondervan, a Christian publishing group, said that it will not be publishing a “God Bless the USA” Bible that critics say promotes Christian nationalism.
