Some churches love talking about money. Some churches (if you even want to call them that) even go as far as to teach a perverted “gospel” in which God's blessing can be purchased in four easy payments of $19.99. The error of these kinds of churches is obvious. But there is another way churches can err when talking about money; it’s much more subtle, and at first glance might even sound like a good way to deal with the topic. Instead of talking about money all the time, some swing the pendulum too far and neglect the topic altogether. Here’s why that’s a problem: we cannot avoid talking…

Prior to the invention of the pasteurization process, communion was universally partaken with wine rather than grape juice. But with the influence of the Prohibition Era, and the innovation offered by Dr. Welch, there are many Christians in America who would be uncomfortable with taking communion with wine instead of the grape juice they’re used to. But here is the question we’d like to explore in this blog: is grape juice actually  an acceptable substitute for wine? Or, to ask it in another way, is serving grape juice in communion the most faithful option for churches today?

We suffer for many reasons: we live in a broken world, God uses suffering to discipline those he loves when we walk in disobedience, God uses suffering to grow us in our faith, suffering is a way to imitate Christ, etc. But the purpose of this blog is not to give a full theology of suffering. Instead, this blog is aimed at addressing a common misconception many Christians have when it comes to righteous suffering. It goes something like this: “When we suffer it is because God wants us to come to a cognitive knowledge of some fact and, once we have learned that fact, he will take away the suffering.”

The American church has a long and tortured history with alcohol paved by winding turns of excess, prohibition, legalism, licentiousness, and confusion. So what should Christians think of alcohol today? Does the Bible command, condone, or condemn drinking alcohol? Is drinking appropriate, sinful, or unwise?

We recently had a good discussion in one of our theological equipping classes about what Protestants should think about Catholics. Are they friends or foes? Can a Catholic be saved and remain a Catholic? Is Protestantism a new church or is it simply a purification of a church that had drifted a bit?

What does Jesus mean when he tells the church to treat an unrepentant brother as if they were “a Gentile and a tax collector” in Matthew 18? Does this mean that we should treat them like Christ treated Gentiles and tax collectors? If so, how did Jesus treat them? Or does it mean we should shun or excommunicate them? If so, how and why?

Imagine this scenario in your local church: A 70-year-old Christian man (who has never been married) and an 18-year-old Christian woman (who has never been married) want to marry each other. You immediately assume that...

Over the past several months, domestic abuse has been on the front burner of evangelical thought. All condemn abuse as sinful and wicked. All desire to help. But beyond a shared sense of sympathy and compassion, it seems that pastors and churches cannot agree on how exactly to answer this particular question: Does the physically abused spouse have biblical grounds for…

In 1 Corinthians 7:15, Paul writes that abandonment provides biblical grounds for divorce. But what exactly constitutes abandonment in Paul's context? Is it solely physical desertion, or could it also refer to things like emotional, spiritual, or mental abandonment?

Jesus says that looking at a woman with lustful intent is adultery. Elsewhere, Jesus permits individuals to divorce their spouse if their spouse has committed (you guessed it) adultery. So then, does this mean that you can divorce your spouse if they look at (or have an addiction to) pornography?