What does Christian maturity look like? Are there definitive elements of Christian maturity, lacking which one cannot be called a “mature” Christian? In the text before us the Apostle Paul answers this question and in doing so lays down a marker...

Many of the one another commands are warm instructions that we are eager to obey, even if we find it difficult to do so. The command to forgive is one against which we sometimes bristle. We know we should obey it, but we don’t always want to....

God’s work usually progresses inauspiciously, invisibly, and imperceptibly—and yet inevitably. It is precisely because it is God’s work that it will come to pass. God expects us to believe this. He expects us to please him by having faith in...

James has been called the wisdom literature of the New Testament. It is filled with the practicals of the Christian life. One of these practicals is the good work of prayer. In chapter 5 James makes it clear that those who believe the gospel will be...

Christ has commanded his disciples to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Believers, therefore, have a responsibility to the world around them—without distinctions of race, language or class—to communicate the gospel of Jesus...

In the command to greet one another with a holy kiss, the kiss is of secondary importance. The command is actually to greet one another, and the kiss was simply the way in which that would ordinarily happen. The burden of the command is upon the...

If church revitalisation is like raising the dead (a difficult task by anyone’s standard—except Christ’s!), church planting is like giving birth (easier, perhaps, but still painful and labourious). Still, like childbirth, church planting can be...

Pastors Conrad Mbewe (Kabwata Baptist Church) and Phil Hunt (Kitwe Church) detail the history of the Reformed Baptist church planting initiatives in Zambia in recent decades.

Pride causes us to divide. It makes us place one preacher, one church, one brand above another. It keeps us from working together, because it makes us feel that we are either superior or inferior to others. The result: There are areas of our world...

We live in a day in which the church has become so seeker-sensitive that churches exist to serve men rather than God. As a result, the spiritual growth of churches often remains stagnant and, in some cases, even declines. Many Christians are not...