In her new book, author and apologist Alisa Childers targets the lies that often masquerade as cultural proverbs today. In Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-Obsessed, Childers offers just what the title promises. She exposes the bad ideas at the center of slogans we hear all the time.
Avoiding sin today (Ephesians 4:27) to avoid God’s judgment one day (2 Corinthians 5:10) is the best way to live today (cf. John 10:10). Doing what God will reward in heaven builds with “gold, silver, precious stones” on earth; refusing what he will condemn in the next life is refusing “wood, hay, straw” in this life (1 Corinthians 3:12).
If you knew you had only today to use the temporal for the eternal, what would you change? I cannot promise you that this is your last day on this planet, but I cannot promise you that it is not.
An 85-year-old man surrendered his life to Jesus Christ for the first time ever during a recent mass baptism event hosted by Pastor Greg Laurie at California's historic Pirates Cove.
Here’s America’s great problem: most secular Americans don’t know the peril they face.
They don’t know that their sins have separated them from God and his best for them (Isaiah 59:2). They don’t know that their rejection of biblical morality is poisoning their minds and corrupting their souls (cf. Isaiah 64:6). They don’t know that they are one day closer to divine judgment than ever before: “While people are saying, ‘There is peace and security,’ then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape” (1 Thessalonians 5:3).
This is why we owe it to them to tell them. A person with the only cure for a deadly pandemic has a moral obligation to share it with everyone they can. Whatever it takes for America’s Christians to lead Americans to Christ will be worth it for all eternity.
Over the weekend, nearly 7,000 people made professions of faith during a two-day evangelistic event by pastor Greg Laurie that included performances by some of the top names in Christian music and a message by Laurie.
Sir Isaac Newton, in a letter written in 1675 to fellow scientist Robert Hooke, wrote, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Chuck Colson was one of those giants for many of us, and it is our privilege to steward his legacy at the Colson Center.
In fact, Chuck believed that his most important legacy, more than any of the organizations he founded or the many books he authored, would be people. That’s why he started what he called the Centurions Program, something that continues today under a different name, the Colson Fellows program.
My wife and I were discussing the lost submersible yesterday, and she made the point that every lost person we meet today needs to be rescued spiritually just as urgently as the passengers on the Titan submersible need to be rescued physically. Like them, our time is running out. Death is one day closer than ever before, and we have only today to be ready.
Even though the map of Scripture is “absolutely necessary” for knowing God in a transforming way, it is conventional wisdom in our postmodern culture that declaring and defending biblical morality unjustly “imposes” our personal values on others.
Let’s respond with an analogy: If you knew the location of the missing Titanic submersible and how its crew could be rescued, would you be “imposing” your opinion on others or offering information that could save lives? How is the gospel, “the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (Romans 1:16), any different?
Christian singer Katy Nichole encouraged the audience at her show during the Rock the Universe Christian music festival to "hold on" to God amid deep despair.
While cultural engagement can be uncomfortable and our cultural opponents can be rancorous, we owe everyone we meet the privilege of hearing the truth that changed our lives.
