What is the goal of the gospel? Fame? Prestige? Large churches? Converts? Heaven? Happy marriages? Large homes? Cottages? Actually, none of the above. In this short video, Skye Jethani explains what the actual goal of the gospel is. You may be surprised with his answer. Maybe not.

The fall season is my favorite time of year, and always has been. Even as a child and teenager growing up in Newfoundland, I fondly remember the beautiful colors of the season, spending time in the country with my dad, picking berries, harvesting the crops at the Clarke family farm, and getting up early in […]

In my first post I focused open theism’s defining claim: the future is both “partly closed” and “partly open” and God’s knowledge of it is accordingly closed or open. And I suggested that to say God knows what is closed about the future is to say God knows what “will” or “will not” occur while […]

Why do I choose to remain in the Pentecostal tradition? I’ve asked myself this question numerous times over the course of the past few years. As a number of my previous posts have alluded to, such as Current Trends in Pentecostalism, I have my concerns, both biblical and theological, with certain trends and aspects of […]

I just finished reading Matthew’s account of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, specifically the last three chapters. One thing that stood out during this particular reading was the variety and content of the insults directed towards Jesus when he hung on the cross in 27:37-44.  “Those who passed by hurled insults at him” (v. 39), […]

Have you ever lived through a difficult period in life?  Or, maybe you’re going through one right now.  Odds are, at one point or another, we will all travel through a ‘dark night of the soul.’ It could be – that your career isn’t working out in the way you anticipated, that you’ve recently lost […]

David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream.  Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2010. The title alone had me hooked, let alone the subtitle.  Radical living for Christ means seeing the Gospel with fresh eyes and then allowing that same Gospel to transform everything about us; our goals, ambitions, resources and hopes. However, living […]

I’m into this great book entitled, “The Next Christians” by Gabe Lyons. His primary thesis in his newest book aims to “restore” U.S. evangelicalism by elevating a generation of leaders marked by six traits suitable for a postmodern, pluralistic, post-Christian America. Evangelicals will need to be “provoked, not offended; creators, not critics; called, not employed; […]