5 Min
Eight Reasons Women Should Not Serve as Deacons
Pastor Mark Hogan
Jul 2, 2025
Do 1 Timothy 3:11 and Romans 16:1-2 advocate for female deacons?
4 Min
Diagnosing Our Personal Idols
Pastor Mark Hogan
Jun 26, 2025
Idols are secret loves, hidden trusts, and time-grabbers. We sometimes need to fish them out of the depths of our hearts where they stay hidden.
2 Min
Christian, Don't Suppress Your Identity!
Pastor Wes Bredenhof
Jun 24, 2025
There's often a temptation to cover up who we are as Christians. We have to fearlessly live out our identity in Jesus Christ.
4 Min
What to Do When the Bible Makes You Uncomfortable
Pastor Mark Hogan
Jun 24, 2025
Instead of ignoring, or self-condemning, or looking for quick comfort, we should honestly search our hearts and ask that God would change us.
6 Min
The Google Earth View on Besetting Sin
Pastor Mark Hogan
Jun 19, 2025
Christians trapped in a repeating “sin-cycle” are sometimes myopically focused on stopping the sin itself, that they don’t address the deeper motivations of why it is necessary to stop sin, and what the sin has to do with idolatry.
2 Min
Reformed Stupidity?
Pastor Wes Bredenhof
Jun 18, 2025
Reddit writer: Do Reformed preachers not see the stupidity of telling people not to rely on their works while also saying genuine faith produces good works?
2 Min
Bible Reading: Perfunctory Exercise or Devotional Enhancement?
Pastor Mark Hogan
Jun 10, 2025
Puritan Thomas Watson said, “The reason we come away so cold from reading the Word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.”
7 Min
For Whom is the Church?
Pastor Wes Bredenhof
Jun 10, 2025
Does the church exist for God or for the world?
4 Min
Is God Your Friend? What About Jesus?
Pastor Wes Bredenhof
May 28, 2025
On the basis of God’s Word, can we say that God is our friend?
3 Min
The Greatest Guide Overcame
Pastor Wes Bredenhof
May 20, 2025
When you're in dangerous terrain, you want an experienced and well-equipped guide.