Does Prayer Spoil the Party? …
Consistent Christians never want to exclude Jesus from anything they do.
Consistent Christians never want to exclude Jesus from anything they do.
Pray for total healing and total salvation. But also pray for smaller steps to be made on the way.
Galatians is the preservation of the gospel for Bethlehem Baptist Church. It is for you. Marry it!
A description of the new arrangement of responsibilities among the church staff.
We shouldn't neglect needed improvements. But we should major on exploiting our strengths for God’s glory.
Praying is worm-work. You can’t see worms doing their work. But without them you couldn’t plow the field.
Become the kind of person who cannot walk by someone in need and do nothing.
Anything that helps you express your heart for God and does not hinder other people is good.
Preaching that doesn't deal with the details of God's Word will only cater to and cultivate stiff-necked listeners.
How could Paul have Timothy circumcised and yet totally refuse it for Titus?
Practically speaking, how do I obey God so that it is “not I but Christ in me”?
Has it ever bothered you that sometimes in the Old Testament when one man sins, many get swept away in God's punishment?
Two reasons, among many, to trust the Easter story.
Part of the process for determining God’s will for your life is deciding what you are good at. So with churches.
Part of the charter for a new group at BBC called Frontier Missions Prayer and Study Group.
Why do people want to get rich when they already have things valued in the millions of dollars?
Four reasons why Unification Church theology should be rejected.
The best way to free people from slavish sins and irrational fears is to fill their lives with big and powerful realities.
If meal time prayers are almost always the same, why not craft some which really say something significant?
Gratitude seeks to show the value of God’s good will, which it does best in words of praise, a heart of trust, and a life of love.
If picnics don’t have to do with God, then we may as well close up shop.
Real guilt is radically God-centered. Satan’s substitute is the bad feelings we get from a wounded ego.
A brief report of the good things going on at BBC after 3 years as pastor.
John Piper recounts the activities and effects of vacation with his family.
If every member could express why we exist as a church, there would be a new intensity about all we do.
We cannot define our mission in terms of deeds alone because any deed can be done with an attitude that does not glorify God.
One way to raise up church leaders is to provide in-house training opportunities.
Jesus is not partial to the healthy. He prefers the homeliest, weakest patients whose eyes sparkle when he enters the room.
The announcement of the then forthcoming sermon series, "Desiring God."
Christ has plotted many tactical advances before the time of the final victory.
One reason we settle for such ordinary “soap opera” lives is because we have no heroes.
Screwtape scolds Wormword for not doing more to undermine prayer at Bethlehem.
Sunday should be a day for delighting ourselves in the Lord in ways we can’t on other busy days.
Denying God's control over evil does not bring the healing it purports to.
His work was successful, his marriage okay, his kids out of trouble—why get fanatical about Bible reading and prayer?
The cause of world missions is absolutely assured of success. It cannot fail.
Laymen must be challenged to live for a cause greater than their present jobs.
Knowing someone's name opens up the miracle of fellowship.
The Noahic covenant seems to rule out the idea that there will be universal devastation before Christ returns.
Christmas is a model for missions. As I so you. And that mission means danger.
Where are the Joshuas? Where are those whose knees are as calloused as their hands?
The measure of our present experience with Christ is the intensity of our longing for its increase.