The modern view of the afterlife has been softened into something dangerously misleading. Even among professing Christians, there is a casual, almost cartoonish attitude about what comes after death. Heaven is treated as a vague reward for generally being a decent person. Hell is either denied outright or reduced to a metaphor for temporary discomfort…
Few words in the Christian vocabulary are more argued over and less understood than repentance. Some insist it means only a change of mind — purely intellectual, no behavior required. Others reduce it to behavior modification — clean up your act and God will accept you. Still others dismiss it as a category that belongs…
“The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” — Galatians 5:6 There is a confusion spreading in parts of the church today that has just enough truth tangled into it to feel righteous. It is the belief that serving the needy, giving sacrificially, or living a life of active love is somehow…
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” — Ephesians 2:8–9 One of the most persistent distortions of the Christian gospel is not the outright rejection of Christ but the…
“We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.” — 2 Corinthians 3:18 One of the most common sources of discouragement in the Christian life is the gap between what new believers are told to expect and what they…