Twenty nine years ago a teenager named Gary Cox led me to faith in Christ in Cloudcroft, NM. In 1995 I published an article about Gary in 21st Century Christian Magazine. The article described three simple… Alpine Evangelist: The Teen Who Saved My Life
David Kinnaman’s UnChristian and You Lost Me provide sobering studies of spiritually-minded people who want nothing to do with church or institutional Christianity. Even those raised in the Christian faith are now turning away from the… A Call for Less Orthodoxy
Two of Jesus’ greatest messages on spiritual formation are recorded in Matt. 5-7 and Matt. 23. One positive. One negative. Both are introduced with words that remind us of the personal benefits of spiritual… Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Others
In my book Preaching to Pluralists I describe a change in conversion obstacles which has taken place as Western culture has shifted from Modern to Postmodern. In the Modern era, the greatest obstacle had… The Changing Obstacles to Faith