Just follow your heart. Are you in love? Follow your heart. Deciding on a job? Follow your heart. Moral decisions? Follow your heart. But, what if your heart is wrong? What if your heart isn’t even trustworthy? Of course Jeremiah 17:9 warns us that the heart is deceitful and wicked, but that’s not all. Romans …
Our current sermon series at Malvern Hill, The Lights of Christmas, focuses on the good news that came with Jesus. As a part of the introduction to that series, I wrote, “Christianity rises and falls on the truth of the virgin birth.” Without the virgin birth, there can be no biblical Christianity. During this time …
School mornings in our home can be an absolute nightmare. Our local elementary school begins the day at 7:30 (yes, in the morning) which means getting the kids up before 6:30 and out the door no later than 7:15 (so at least we live close). I take our kids to school most days; it is …
Angela and I love Christmas. When I say we love Christmas, of course I mean the fact that it is the birth of Christ and the celebration that surrounds it, but I also mean that we love everthing that goes along with the Christan connotation. We love lights and trees, tinsel and ribbon, and we …
Last year I asked the question, Do Christians Have a Responsibility to Observe Halloween, and I still stand behind everything in that article. I do believe that Halloween represents a unique opportunity for Christians to be on the offensive against the darkness of sin in our culture and to communicate the gospel with our lost and …
Writing in the 40’s, C.S. Lewis found himself “constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our hearers but by their real religion.” The “real religion” of the popular world of Lewis’ time was one that he defined as Pantheism. Pantheism is the religious idea that the universe or nature is one with the divine. Pantheistic …