The Vine’s Purpose, the Gardener’s Care, and the Fruit’s Harvest

The Christianity that is growing and dominant in Africa is essentially a Christianity that profoundly misunderstands the Holy Spirit. It misunderstand His nature, it misunderstand His work, it misunderstands His purposes. Instead of having a theology of the Holy Spirit derived from Scripture, it is almost entirely a theology derived…

Christmas, if we define it biblically, is actually a mission, a quest, an errand. It involves a Sender, and the one Sent. Christmas celebrates the arrival of the Sent One, the Questing One. Christmas is not really an end point of this quest, a celebration of the mission completed. Christmas…

Some Christians are really not ready for the world's hatred. They believe they can still be on great terms with the world if they are diplomatic, or winsome in personality, or explain things better, or do better marketing and branding of Christianity, or do more apologetics and show reasonable people…

Even though people now have hordes of people they chat with online, tons of followers, likes, subscribers, and "friends" online, people are still haunted by, and chilled by a profound loneliness. People live behind their screens, live in bigger and bigger cities, where you are more and more anonymous, lost…

Jesus has one word to describe Christian spirituality. This is really the heart of John 15:1 - 11, which centers around this word "abide". We need to know what it is, how it happens and what it looks like when it's happening. Here we can learn a true, biblical Christian…