Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash Each and every time I attend an event that the North American Mission Board facilitates they submit several questions to participants for the purpose of personal engagement. Too often we hear great content but fail to reflect and intentionally think how we can appropriate certain truths or principles into our lives. Questions…
It’s essential in confronting the charge of hypocrisy. It’s essential in escaping the life of hypocrisy. God is the God of truth. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. The Scriptures are the truth. The gospel is the word of truth. Conversion is a turnaround triggered by truth. Discipleship is the way of…
It’s essential in confronting the charge of hypocrisy. It’s essential in escaping the life of hypocrisy. God is the God of truth. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. The Scriptures are the truth. The gospel is the word of truth. Conversion is a turnaround triggered by truth. Discipleship is the way of…
The Bible uses many strong terms to describe unbelief, including hardening, twisting, blindness, deafness, unnaturalness, lies, deception, folly, rebellion and madness, but none repays reflection more than Paul’s phrase in Romans. At the heart of sin and disobedience, Paul says, is a flagrantly deliberate and continuing act of violence to truth. Sin and disobedience lay…
The Bible uses many strong terms to describe unbelief, including hardening, twisting, blindness, deafness, unnaturalness, lies, deception, folly, rebellion and madness, but none repays reflection more than Paul’s phrase in Romans. At the heart of sin and disobedience, Paul says, is a flagrantly deliberate and continuing act of violence to truth. Sin and disobedience lay…
Os Guinness gives three reasons why asking questions is helpful when confronting people in their views. Questions help people examine their life. Questions can uncover errors. Questions can appeal to a person’s desire to grow. Taken from Os Guinness’ book A Fool’s Talk.
Three truths about Christian persuasion. Christian persuasion, while always addressing the human mind and therefore focusing on the act of knowing, must also address the human heart and what Bible views as the anatomy of belief and unbelief. Christian persuasion, while addressing the mind, must be faithful to address the heart, including the passions or…
Three truths about Christian persuasion. Christian persuasion, while always addressing the human mind and therefore focusing on the act of knowing, must also address the human heart and what Bible views as the anatomy of belief and unbelief. Christian persuasion, while addressing the mind, must be faithful to address the heart, including the passions or…
Os Guinness gives three reasons why asking questions is helpful when confronting people in their views. Questions help people examine their life. Questions can uncover errors. Questions can appeal to a person’s desire to grow. Taken from Os Guinness’ book A Fool’s Talk.
Christian persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern. In today’s climate, anyone who prizes reason and truth and makes use of them in the defense of the faith is apt to be dismissed as a modernist. Equally, anyone who uses imagination and stories is apt to be either…
Theology Along the Way 