Prayer as a Measure of Your Spirit-Filled Life

Owen notes that the Holy Spirit is performing two general works in a Spirit-filled Christian to aid him in prayer. First, the Spirit makes us want to pray. Secondly, the Spirit gives us the ability to pray—not in general, but upon each prayer event. But how can we know that the contents of these prayers are Spirit-led when our own deficiencies and depravities crowd our thinking? After all, we need the Spirit to help our weakness, because we don’t even know what to pray for without His help (Rom 8:26). Owen offers three requests that are regular elements of a Spirit-filled prayer life.

How Pandemics Change Christianity

Our family has been through enough natural disasters to know that we're never completely prepared. Our comfortable lifestyle has been so normalized that we can't wrap our head around a different way of living ... until that disaster happens. Every type of disaster -- whether hurricanes, floods, or tornadoes -- reminds us of essentials that …

Thiselton’s New Horizons in Hermeneutics

Progressive analysis of the hermeneutical theories through time helping readers approach Scripture. -- a book review --

5 Tips for Evangelistic Living

I am an introvert. Even more, I am a very busy introvert. Introverts do not necessarily dislike people. I pastor and engage with people in my church every day. I love people. However, introverts do not charge their batteries around people. Most introverts rest and renew their energy alone, away from people. Further, when an …

Devotions to Your Devotional

5 Questions When Using a Daily Devotional

Assessing a Friendly Church

in a selfish consumer-minded culture

Preference or Conviction​

a religious conflation unmasked

Lowry’s How to Preach a Parable

Designs for Narrative Sermons
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Long’s Preaching and the Literary Forms of the Bible

-- a book review --

Using Zotero for Citation

A SWBTS help in writing with Turabian