Do you really know the significance of Advent? Matthew Sigler shares why Advent is a part of the church calendar you should not skip over.
The most important book of 2016 is The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, by Alan Kreider (Baker Academic, 2016, 321 pp.). I say this after
When it comes to politics . . . Since I believe in Jesus and the kingdom of God, I believe: The Lord God is a God of righteousness, justice, holiness, truth, and love—all qualities that
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. So will you. John Grisham’s novel Gray Mountain has everything and almost begs to be made into a movie. Plot summary, without revealing too much: Samantha Kofer is a 29-year-old
Most people these days know something about Pocahontas. Some even know the true story of her conversion to Christianity, and perhaps of the catechetical instruction she went through. But most people don’t know what happened
Surprise! John Wesley is mentioned several times in this 450-page book. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, not once. The book is HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, by journalists Jonathan Allen and
He may not come when you want Him, but He’ll be there right on time. Ann Coker proclaims that our God is an on-time God.
“God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm” (Gen. 1:21). There is no greater creature on earth—land or sea—than the blue whale. This
Jesus says in John 14, “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and
When he comes, Messiah “will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street.” Yet “he will not grow faint or be crushed,” and in God’s own way
(Based on a non-canonical hypothetical conversation between Jesus and Thomas.) For forty days after his resurrection, Jesus met often with his apostles, speaking about the kingdom of God (Acts 1:3). The apostles asked many questions
John Wesley said God’s providence is a key Christian truth. “There is scarce any doctrine in the whole compass of revelation which is of deeper importance than this” (Sermon 67, “On Divine Providence,” Par. 7).
