Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress says that Mormonism is a cult.Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Seminary, says Mormonism is not a cult. To confuse matters further, William McGurn denounces the “cult” of Anti-Mormonism.Who’s right?The answer is, it all depends on definition and context. Some years ago Walter Martin offered the follow…
From the question box:If a believer continues to struggle with any sin after confessing it to God and asking for deliverance, does that mean he was never saved?The answer is no. Struggle with sin is the common experience of Christians everywhere. James 3:2 says, “We all stumble in many ways.” Romans 7:23 speaks of a “war&rdq…
This afternoon I did some research into the traffic at the Keep Believing website. Since the site debuted in March 2008, we have had:2,033,484 visits to the website.1,101,217 unique visitors.7,435,672 pageviews.Visitors have come to us from 226 countries and territories. Just recently we added our first visitor from Somalia. Here are a few ran…
“I think you should consider a partnership with Trans World Radio."That simple comment, made a year ago by someone we met at a Bible conference in Michigan, started a discussion that led to a major decision.Last Saturday the Keep Believing board voted to enter a strategic partnership with Trans World Radio (TWR) to do ministry in China….
“Like grabbing a dog by the ears, so is a bystander who gets involved in someone else’s quarrel” (Proverbs 26:17). Sometimes it’s better not to get involved.A while back someone wanted me to get involved in something (how’s that for a general statement?) that I just didn’t want to bother with. I did have some opi…
It’s hard to know what to say about your 59th birthday. What exactly does it represent? Does it have a deep meaning? After pondering the matter I have drawn a few tentative conclusions:1. I can’t stay up as late I could 20 years ago.2. You’re definitely not young when you are 59.3. I was going to say I run slower now but that&rsqu…
A few years ago–about eight years ago, I suppose–I received an email out of the blue from a man named H. B. Charles, Jr. who wrote to ask me a question about something I had written about preaching. I didn’t know him or the church he pastored, Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Through an email correspondence we b…
After the service last night several of us went out to eat. During the meal Pastor H. B. Charles, Jr. shared the story about a man named John Kavanaugh who went to India to spend some time serving in Calcutta with Mother Teresa. The trip came at a turning point in his life when he was seeking God’s direction for the future. It seems that when…
For many years I’ve turned to J. C. Ryle’s Expository Thoughts on the Gospels when I wanted to study a text from the gospels. Ryle, an evangelical Anglican who served in the late 1800s in Great Britain, had an uncanny ability to get to the heart of each passage. More than that, he knew how to find the “preachable truths&…
Today I’m flying to Los Angeles to take part in the Fall Church Institute at Mt Sinai Missionary Baptist Church. When I received this invitation a few months ago from Pastor George Hurtt, I was glad to accept because he asked me to speak on one of my favorite topics–expository preaching. I’ll be leading a workshop on preachin…