But ultimately God used my failures to produce a healthy respect in me for what I didn’t yet know, and he gave me an even greater desire to learn from those who did. This is the blessing of learning from the experience of others, or, as we might call it, gaining wisdom.

For the believer today, spiritual warfare is as real and intense as combat on the battlefield was for David in the Old Testament. Therefore, like David, the believer must learn how to properly war and fight. The inability to do so ensures a defeated spiritual walk.

Christian, please don’t let the devil win in your life by distracting you from the real mission of winning souls. Don’t lower yourself and abandon your high calling just so you can fight for an earthly kingdom. Our true, eternal citizenship is in heaven.

As a father, it is my responsibility to properly teach and inform my children, not my culture or the media. If I entrust my culture, Fox News, CNN, or Facebook with informing my children, I will have failed both them and my stewardship before God.

I could point to a lot of things we seem to share in common with groups like the LDS, but with all of them we have to ask: is it common truth or just common terms?

There will come a time in every parent’s life when you will not be able to control what your children do. They will make their own decisions. They may make decisions that go against what you have taught them. At this point, you must trust in the Lord with all your heart.

Although Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, we can have real, meaningful fellowship with Him — spirit, soul, and body — because He replaced all three parts of Himself.

It is legitimately strange (as in not common) for someone today to be truly interested in Christ. Not religion, not companionship, not understanding the universe, but Christ. That is the most beautiful kind of strange that exists, and I live to find these people.

If the mission of the church is to make disciples, the discipleship team within the church cannot afford failed stewardship in overseeing the discipleship ministry. It would most certainly cripple the church for years to come.

Jesus gave us a Great Commission, but Satan offers a grand strategy to strip the saints from each other so it is never accomplished.

What is far more vitally essential than denominational labeling is the core doctrine of the need for man to be born again by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and the authority of the plain words of the living God in our Bible.

I can't help but think that the world would give anything to see people from all walks of life live together in genuine love, unity, and peace. This is what Christ has given us, and it is so very precious.

The future of our churches is solely dependent on biblical discipleship at all levels. Our children need to know both the Lord and His works, and it’s our responsibility to show them what He’s doing.

Contrary to the racial narrative being propagated, this is not a racial issue. Racism is merely a symptom. Sin is the real problem, and it will never be solved through politics and legislation.

Our earthly bodies cannot enter heaven to be with God because they are corrupted by sin. So, God has designed a new body for every believer in Jesus Christ. This new body is incorruptible and immortal.

Christians cannot just offer the best things a lost man can do on a good day. We need to take these moments when people are overwhelmed with national traumatic events, when the world looks to churches and pastors, and bring those people the gospel.

A wife is a biblical role, but the biblical qualities of a wife don’t change based on who you’re married to. My husband is called to a pastoral ministry. In my role as his wife, my biblical responsibility is to him and the Lord as his help meet. My responsibility to you as a church member is to follow God’s word and operate as an “elder woman” of our local church body. How a pastor’s wife grows into that role as a teacher is the same as how any woman learns to teach the younger: through (often the pain)

The best thing you can do with true rejectors is to leave them in your dust and focus your obedience upon those who are glad to hear. Don’t allow yourself to be distracted with vain questions and rejections or to be derailed by harsh words and hurt feelings. All you can do is leave them behind and aim your interest at those who are interested.

There is perhaps no doctrine of the Bible that has been attacked with greater subtlety yet vehemence than the doctrine of the deity of Christ—the indisputable fact that Jesus Christ is God and very God.

As a newbie to Mission Focus, I wasn’t sure what to expect. The reality is that it was exactly what I needed as a pastor to bring the totality of the Mission into clear Focus. I was able to witness firsthand the culmination of evangelism, discipleship, ministry training, and church planting. I heard personal testimonies of people who were won to Christ through evangelistic Bible studies. People were open and excited about being involved in discipleship. We celebrated those graduating from LFBI. Andew Ong was ordained into the pastoral ministry. Missionaries from all over the world were prayed over and supported. And many surrendered their lives completely to the Mission.