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A God Thing?
On 9 January 2013 my wife Nancy and I attended the funeral for Mary, a dear Christian friend who had died of breast cancer at age 42. She left behind her husband Eric and two children, ages 11 and 7. …...
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How to Know the Will of God
In Bible Fellowship we were discussing John 9, the healing of the man born blind. During the conversation we noted how the man heard Jesus tell him to wash in the pool of Siloam, and he trusted and...
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A Theology of Missions
18And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the...
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A. Reid Jepson – Pastor, Missionary, Mentor
The classroom was empty, but I was sure it would soon be full. A junior at Biola University, I was excited about my developing relationship with God and expecting the gospel of Jesus Christ to reach...
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The Problem is the Soil
Last week I was writing a commentary on Matthew 13. Verses 1-23 contain one of the most famous parables of Jesus, the Parable of the Sower. In it some seed fell on a hard path, other seed fell on stony...
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Do We Hate Our Bodies?
The other day I read an article written by a hospice chaplain from South Carolina entitled “What the dying really regret.” The author interviewed an elderly woman who was dying of cancer, who said: “I...
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A Witness Carol
In his famous work, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens told the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman who learned the true meaning of Christmas. Three important characters in the...
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Archery and the Christian Life
During a recent flight to San Antonio I was reading Marshall Hodgson’s classic The Venture of Islam (V1) and considering the spread of Islam in the world. I pondered the Muslim Arab victories over the...
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A Christian Intellectual
FAITH AND SCHOLARSHIP: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CHRISTIAN INTELLECTUAL? Years ago my wife and I were buying Christmas gifts for our children and we ran across some information cards that proclaimed in...
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Physical Beauty and the Christian
My recent travels led me to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a conversation with Felicity, a Boyce College undergraduate studying the Bible before she moves on to a degree in cosmetology....
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Spiritual Warfare
Our church recently sent a mission team to Bulgaria to work with local churches in music, outreach, and Vacation Bible School. As they were returning to the airport, the driver nodded off and the van...
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