Sam Hardman Have you ever asked yourself the question, “Why does Jesus enter Jerusalem for the final time during his earthly ministry in the way that he does – what Christians call ‘The Triumphal Entry’ – when he knows that in a matter of days he is going to die?” We know that he knows he’s going …
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Sam Hardman As more and more Millennials walk away from the Christian faith they once claimed to hold, it’s tempting for Baby Boomer Evangelicals like me to decry this state of affairs and to worry about the trajectory of the Church in America. Millennials are leaving the Church in droves. They say they can no …
Sam Hardman Recently an interesting letter to the editor appeared in a Kentucky newspaper called the Lexington Herald-Leader. In it the writer, speaking of Christians, said in part that “these people have been trained from childhood to believe in fairy tales…. From childhood, they were told stories that were fascinating but simply not true. This …
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12/17/2019 Did you know that singing Christmas carols with a true heart is, fundamentally, an act of war? You may think this is a joke – or the musing of a madman. But on the contrary, it is an entirely serious claim made in a moment of singular sanity. This war is not primarily cultural …
How many of us hear others talk or write about their experiences of sweet communion with God and wonder, “What’s wrong with me? Why don’t I have experiences like that?” Do you ever feel that way? A.W. Tozer once said, “True Christian joy is the heart’s harmonious response to the Lord’s song of love.” Is …
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How to Pray : Seven Exhortations from 2 Samuel 17 In our time and place – in the midst of our post-modern and post-Christian culture in the West – there are so many things that seem to be against the very idea of prayer. Prayer assumes the existence of a powerful, personal God who actually …
Sam Hardman Sometimes life doesn’t seem to turn out the way we want it to or expect it to. We might believe the promises of God – and we might anticipate good things in keeping with those promises – but life delivers the opposite, or so it seems. Perhaps that is how the Israelites felt …