Jul 10, 2017The 7 critical questions of church discipleship strategyWhen a church develops (or redevelops) its strategy for ensuring that believers become disciples who grow and multiply, there are seven...
Jul 4, 2017Why you can't be a progressive AND a cultural relativistOne of the planks of today's progressive worldview is cultural relativism. Yet progressivism and cultural relativism are fundamentally...
Jun 27, 2017The post-truth eraSince the election of Donald Trump, prestigious figures in journalism have been wringing their hands over the "post-truth era." The New...
Jun 12, 2017The 4 ingredients of personal changeWhat are the basic ingredients of positive character change? Four: distress, truth, the Holy Spirit, and intimacy. Distress is the...
Jun 12, 2017The glory spiral of John 17The New Testament writings of John are ingenious. He employed a very small palette of simple terms—almost Hop on Pop-simple—but he used...
May 9, 2017A culture is shaped by the shape of its storiesWhen we think of what is or is not an appropriate story for a book or film—whether from the perspective of age-appropriacy or of...