To desire spiritual gifts is good. To desire the good of the church is better. To hold both together with wisdom is the mark of maturity.

It deliberately crafts strategies to attract outsiders by anticipating what they want and offering it to them.

Do we presume to be smart enough to compute the parameters for our own existence, or will we trust in the timeless wisdom of God to govern our lives?

For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness, even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

I suspect that many christians do not even believe in God.

With all the weight of apostolic urgency, James lays down this principle: if you would walk as Christ walked, watch your mouth.

You hear the word theology, and for a lot of people, that’s an automatic pass. But guess what? We are all theologians.

Whether you’re Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, male or female, salvation is equally available.

The Church is built not on human wisdom, but on the immovable foundation of Christ Himself.