The Communion service in its "official" form contains three different exhortations concerning the importance of partaking of the Lord's Supper in a worthy, and regular manner. These three exhortations are not normally included in the service that people actually attend. As a result, many people are completely unaware of their existence.

Not everyone is an extrovert, but all of us can pray. In fact, prayer needs to undergird and cover all that we try to do for the good of people and the glory of God.

I think Bible memorization is a great good, one that all Christians, regardless of age, should practice.

In some parts of the world, what I will say would be seen as highly partisan and political. Some would counsel me not to speak as I will.

People mistakenly talk as if evangelism is persuasion. If evangelism is mere persuasion, then you will learn from Canadian culture how to persuade.

Depending on the Bible translation that you use, James 5:12 says that you should not swear. What does that mean?

If you are at all well instructed in the Christian faith, you know that God hears and answers every one of your prayers. He either says, "No," "Not yet," or "Yes." However, most of us talk about prayer in a very different way, and our unreflective speech reveals what we actually believe.

Just because the Bible is silent on many matters does not mean everything outside of the bible is gray, uncertain, and relativistic.

“All you can do is wear rose coloured glasses and pretend you have the real Bible and that you can really understand it." Have I "tipped my hand" about the real state of the Bible? Not at all.

People like having positive experiences. Nothing sucks the positive out of a room more than mentioning sin.

Our true hope was never in our search for god. Our true hope was that He would search for us - but more than us - that He would search for you and me - but more than search - that He would search and save.

Just as you can get things wrong in modern day life, so you can get it wrong with the Bible.

Shouldn’t religion and spirituality be all about helping people feel better about themselves? Doesn’t this prayer encourage you to have a terrible self-image?

The time nestled between justification and glorification is a time of sanctification. In that time you strive to put off vice and put on virtue.

To boast truely and wisely is to boast knowing that by His grace you are an adopted child of the true and living God.

The Bible describes and encourages ceaseless praise. I want to begin by stating the biblical teaching in a “positive” manner. The Bible is filled with commands and exhortations to praise the Lord with our lips.

Everyone can become legalistic and have a “religious spirit” about how their church service is organized or unorganized. Legalism and a religious spirit are human problems.

It is very obvious that the Christian year can become “mere religion”; its own end; something that forces you to serve it, rather than having it help you. But the correct response to an abuse, or misuse, of a good thing, is not abandonment of the good thing, but proper use.

God’s word does not require that we all react emotionally the same way at the same time. The lockdowns have not affected everyone equally.

The lockdowns are hard. They are hard in too many ways to count and in too many ways to describe.