A great Pastor by the name of RC Sproul once said, “I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of dying.” In the context of what he was speaking of was the suffering end of dying. I had an uncle who had a really horrible death. The last two weeks of his life [...]

I had an interesting conversation with a coworker today that was about the foundation of truth. He stated to me that it depended on what one has been exposed too. He used the simple fact that someone’s truth could be pulled from many different religions and that we can’t say what is true because “everyone” [...]

Prayer is, as all Christians know, the means of our communication with God. God communicates with us through His divinely inspired Word, and we communicate with Him through the means of prayer. As John MacArthur put it, “For Christians prayer is like breathing. You don’t have to think to breathe because the atmosphere exerts pressure [...]

In the book Spiritual Leadership, J. Oswald Sanders seeks out to explain the crucial role of a Spiritual Leader. The leadership of the Church today is lacking in their dependence upon the Spirit of God and tend to seek their own fulfillment and, without understanding the cost demanded, they neglect the true model of leadership [...]

I was deeply encouraged when I encountered a friend, a dear brother in Christ, tonight on the campus of our Church, Grace Community Church, here in Sun Valley, CA. It had been awhile since he and I had last seen or spoke to each other so there was plenty to talk about. What was so [...]

Have you ever had the desire to do something for God that was beyond your comforts? Have you ever laid in your bed and prayed that God would give you the simple courage to share the true reality of Jesus Christ with a lost loved one? In this message John Piper explains what it means [...]