From the beginning, God create humans to be in fellowship with other men (Gen. 2:18). Part of being a Christian husband or wife, a Christian son or daughter, a Christian American citizen, a Christian resident in your neighborhood, a Christian friend, and a member of the body of Christ is to be involved in other people’s lives, and for them to be involved in yours.

Yesterday, the first day of June, kicked off one of our culture’s new and blasphemous holidays. June is pride month, so says the godless corporate world. One day before that, on the last day of May, NorthStone Baptist Church hosted gubernatorial candidate Paul Renner for a question-and-answer. Mr. Renner answered my questions, questions from the NorthStone faith family, and questions from the community on a variety of moral issues facing Florida.

In Galatians 6:1, when a man falls in an unexpected and unforeseen way, a certain kind of brother in the faith is given the responsibility of restoring him. It is not the most compassionate or empathetic that God approves. Neither is it the most confrontational or uncompromising. The only qualified brother in that moment is the spiritual man: "ye which are spiritual, restore such an one." This of course begs the question: What is the measure of spirituality? Is it acts of ser

There are at least two ideologies that American Christians have absorbed in the 20th century that have harmed our ability to think in biblical categories. These ideas seem innocent, but when placed against the standard of Scripture, they are revealed to be bankrupt. We have absorbed individualism and globalism.

Central to God’s character is that he loves. 1 John 4:8 famously says that “he that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love.” However, when we say that God loves, we are not saying that anything called love is a godly thing. What we mean—because it is what the Bible communicates—is that God is the one who defines what love is.

America is a comfortable place. While not everyone lives a comfortable life, one of the ideas built into the American dream is that living w

The world is full of conflict. There is always a negative comment to respond to or an unpleasant situation to confront. But while...