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The Challenge of the Lenten Season

Lent constitutes both a challenge and an embarrassment to Protestantism. Each year as the season approaches it brings with it the temptation to equivocate. We do not know where we stand because our feet seem to be stuck in both camps.
On one side, our conscience serves to remind us that (if we are the practicing Christians we claim to be) we had better "do something" about observing the most sacred season in the Christian calendar. Read More...

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Strength in Meekness

By: Carolyn Arends

Jesus was quoting from Psalm 37 when he said the meek will inherit the earth, and it turns out that the whole psalm is a primer on meekness. I have always been a little over-meek (reticent, shy, too deferential). So when I read the Bible and find the meek congratulated, I'm delighted.
But there's a catch. It turns out that only two people in Scripture are described as "meek": Moses and Jesus.
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Video Insight

Chuck Swindoll

Have you made amends to anyone lately? In this Video Insight, Chuck Swindoll explains what can weigh us down and keep us from being right with God. See and hear his message by following the link:
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The Masculine Mandate: God's Calling to Men
By: Rev. Richard Phillips

There is a crying need in the church today for men to be men. But competing visions for what a man is to be -- some growing out of popular culture and others arising from flawed teaching in the church -- are exacerbating the problem.
In the foreword, Jerry Bridges says Richard D. Phillips "gives us an accurate picture of what it means to be God's man. The reader will come away reassured that even though he may possess none of the attributes that the world deems essential for a 'man's man,' nevertheless he can be one of God's men." Read More...

 
 
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