Why is it true that the only relationship that matters is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord? The biblical answer to our question is clear: God made us in his image (Genesis 1:26) for personal relationship with himself (cf. Revelation 3:20). As the Westminster Shorter Catechism states, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.”
Transactional religion, from the Greco-Roman world to today, treats God’s word and power as instruments to be used for our purposes. We need to measure the news and everything else we experience in this fallen world through the prism of God’s unchanging, authoritative, completely true word. We need to read, pray, and worship for God’s glory rather than our own, to live for his honor above our own, to commune with our Creator for no reason except to be with our Father, to love our Lord and our neighbor for their sakes rather than ours. Anything less makes the King of the universe a means to our end. This is idolatry, and it is dangerous.
A Texas man is crediting God for helping him find a 3-year-old boy who went missing in his community.
A photo of Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and his wife, Ciara, praising God in a church has gone viral. While some found the image to be endearing, many more found it to be an invasion of privacy.
Let me be brutally honest: many who show contempt for profoundly deep and moving experiences with God have never experienced them for themselves. If they avoid prayer meetings, complain about extended and emotional worship, never miss a meal for God, are unaffected by the depravity around them, and are too mature to go to the altar, are these people truly filled with God’s Spirit?
Pastor Rich Wilkerson and his wife, DawnCheré, are thanking God for being able to bring their new baby girl home from the hospital following a six-day stay in the NICU.
A Florida pastor recently argued that today's contemporary worship style fails to praise God with "reverence and awe."
Federal Border Patrol agents and Texas Rangers reportedly saved the life of a 6-month-old baby who was thrown in the Rio Grande river by human traffickers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
In an interview with Chrisitan Headlines, singer Natalie Grant thanked God for resorting her voice following her thyroid cancer diagnosis.
