The Cripplegate

One of the things that has continuously shocked me throughout my life is the relentless attack against God’s Word – especially from professing Christians. Sometimes, these attacks are subtle, implying the Word of God is insufficient because it is too difficult to understand. Other times, the attacks are blatant, like the promotion of an evolutionary theory as an alterna...

Should we pray to the Lord to deal with us according to our own righteousness? Should we ask, “Father, please help me because I’m innocent in this”? Can we humbly say, “O God, please give me what I deserve”?

Our immediate, good, humble Christian impulse is to say, “No, of course not. I should pray that God will deal with me according to the righteousness of...

What does the eternal, hidden, and

When we have wrong thoughts about God, the consequences can be disastrous for every relationship – especially within the church. Many problems arise when believers’ actions are guided by inaccurate or unbiblical thinking about God. The church at Corinth is a case study in what goes wrong when people’s minds are led astray from the truth of God’s Word.

The very first...

The final words in 1 Corinthians 2 – “We have the mind of Christ” – are some of the most soul-stirring words in the New Testament.

Scripture has much to say about the mind. God’s Word describes the sinner in his natural condition as having a depraved mind in Romans 1:28, as having a futile mind in Ephesians 4:17, as having a defiled