How did the church win over so many ancient civilisations, and how could that be done again?
The Libyan Christian martyrs on the beach in 2015 made an immensely powerful witness to the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ. If He offered any of us the opportunity to do the same, would we accept that?
The secular age is fading away. It was an interesting Enlightenment project born out of a Christian culture that, throughout global history, has mostly lived under governments that were at best indifferent and typically hostile to us. The secular age could only ever be a relatively brief experiment because it is built more on the absence of a governing worldview than a positive, self-sustaining one. As the supporting Christian foundations were eaten away, so the secular age crumbles.
Transparency in church: A Biblical call for confession
The concept of confession isn’t new. In ancient times, sins were openly confessed within the community – as we read …