Why Loving People Isn’t the Same as Liking Them
Love means acknowledging that other people are made in God’s image, and pursuing God’s best for them, often in a way that is self-sacrificial.
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Love means acknowledging that other people are made in God’s image, and pursuing God’s best for them, often in a way that is self-sacrificial.
Paul speaks of the Spirit sealing believers in three texts (2 Cor. 1:21–22; Eph. 1:13; 4:30). While interpreters often associate this sealing with the down payment or guarantee of the...
Jesus does not demand something from us that he has not himself endured. Indeed, we suffer because we follow a suffering Saviour.
“He was taken up in glory.” This is how Paul describes the ascension of Jesus in an early doctrinal summary of the Christian faith (1 Tim. 3:16). This event in...
We live in a cultural moment where feelings are no longer just influential—they are increasingly authoritative. The question has shifted from “What is true?” to “What do I feel?” That...
A bit embarrassingly, we have two kinds of pew Bibles at our church. I didn’t realize this until one of our preachers began telling us which page numbers to turn...
I recently asked a room full of Christian leaders to share the Gospel as they would to a 10 year old child 3 minutes before they fell asleep. Then I...
Pastor Paul Carter explains why he uses the RMM Bible reading plan.
In this episode, Pastors Paul Carter, Steve Bray, and Paul Martin discuss the differences between church planting and church revitalization.
Statistics tell us that 25% of current pastors plan to retire in the six months. If that’s even close to true, then we have to ask the question: where will...
What standing for the truth of God's word even at great personal cost looks like in Canada
