Serious About Scripture

Mentoring and motivating Christ’s people to live his words

NEW BOOK! — The Most Powerful Words: A Primer on the Public Reading of Scripture

To order (or read) this 85 page book, click here. From the back cover: If you have a Bible in your language, you have the most powerful words in the history of the world — God’s words — at your disposal. What are we to do with these words, especially when gathered with other believers? Paul told Timothy, “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture” (1 Timothy 4:13). But how is this practice beneficial to those…

Childhood Conversion

A woman came to humorist Will Rogers, saying, “I struggle with this problem. Every time I look at myself in the mirror, I’m proud.” He said, “Ma’am, that’s not pride, that’s a mistake!” Now I know that you are proud of your children, but you have never been as proud of a child as a woman I met who claimed that her five year old daughter had never sinned! She was serious. I realize that this woman was not doctrinally…

Providence in Romania

After ministering just a few days in Romania in 1985 when the Iron Curtain was still up, I received a call that my mother was dying in a hospital room in Oklahoma City. “We think she is holding on until you get here,” my brother said.  It took two days to leave. It was hard enough to get into Romania at Oradea a few days earlier. At the checkpoint, the border guards asked if we had “any guns, drugs, pornography…

No Excuses: Moving from Unbelief to Faith in Christ

Believing the truth about Jesus as announced in the gospel and living under his authority is not optional. At the heart of the Christian message is the declaration that God raised Jesus from the dead and exalted him as his king over all creation. Therefore “he commands all people everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30-31).  Perhaps you have heard the gospel before. But you have not yet decided to trust in and follow Christ. What can you do?  First, I recommend…