Two Questions to Determine If We’ve Sacrificed Principles for Popularity
There are many ways to grow a church, business, and social media audience. Some abandon truth, principles, and the gospel in order to gain success.
Many churches are merely religious versions of carnival midways, and their pastors are the barkers. Learn to recognize it and discover the cure.
So long as pride is ignored, it will continue to motivate and drive people to behave like toddlers. So long as pride dominates, peace cannot be achieved.
Many churches are seeing attendance and tithes decline. Many solutions are offered, but few address the whole problem. Churches need to be gospel-centered.
Before birth, that baby is a baby. It is a human baby. That baby is precious because life is precious, both before and after the birth.
How much politics belongs in the pulpit? What constitutes political speech? If it’s on the news or discussed in Congress, does that mean it’s political?
What childhood memories will our children have when they are adults? It’s not always the big things, but the little things, that matter.
All around the nation this Thursday, people will gather around the dinner tables, stuff themselves full of tasty food, watch football, and ask each other what they are thankful for.
Sometimes we don’t realize the impact we have over those around us. The question, though, is how are we using that influence?
Psalm 47 gives us a guide about how and who to worship while allowing the flexibility to incorporate personal or cultural tastes.
