Gospel-Based Discipleship

Gospel-Based Discipleship

Recently a dear friend, a man I have spent considerable time over the years thanked me for helping him to be a better husband and father. What is significant about that is I cannot ever remember having counseled he and his wife. Nor have I ever spoken to him about how...
A Lasting Legacy

A Lasting Legacy

​ Have you had a spiritual mentor who God used to strengthen, define, or refine God’s call? A couple of weeks ago, I lost a friend who had a great impact on my life and not mine only, but thousands of others as well. His name was George Bogle, and he was well known in...
Keep a Close Watch on Yourself (I Timothy 4:16)

Keep a Close Watch on Yourself (I Timothy 4:16)

The Evangelical world was rocked recently when it learned that one of the world’s leading Christian apologists, Ravi Zacharias, engaged in years of sexual misconduct. This is the conclusion his own ministry came to after hiring a group of independent investigators to...
The Greatest Interview

The Greatest Interview

While working out this morning I had a strange thought: ‘What was it like when Larry King, the consummate interviewer, passed from this life and faced his own interview with the Greatest Interviewer? Scripture teaches that he did face his own interview the moment he...
The Dissolution of Cultural Christianity

The Dissolution of Cultural Christianity

In recent days, I watched in amazement as our television screens daily broadcast images of civil unrest, the pulling down of statues, not to mention our unparalleled political upheaval. More than once, I turned to my wife after watching a newscast and said,...