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Repent and Believe When a friend, family member, or coworker announces, “I’m expecting a baby!” or “I’m going to be married!” we cannot ignore their joyful news. Instead, we break into a smile of delight and offer a heartfelt, “Congratulations!” Sharing the news of God’s love doesn’t simply end with announcing the glorious truth of Christ’s...

An Evangelist’s Heart: Humility “Secure your own oxygen mask before assisting other passengers.” These instructions are familiar to anyone who has traveled on a commercial airplane in recent years. In order to be useful to other people, travelers should first make sure they have what they need to breathe. In order to effectively evangelize...

An Evangelist’s Heart: Joy In an 1850 letter to her publisher, George Smith, English novelist Charlotte Brontë wrote: “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.” As we will see in today’s passage too, our happiness in our salvation should necessarily overflow into sharing—and this makes our joyful experience...

An Evangelist’s Heart: Sorrow In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized abortion until the third trimester of pregnancy with its ruling in Roe v. Wade. Cardinal Terence Cooke spoke for many when he lamented the decision to The New York Times as “an unspeakable tragedy.” In days to come, groups opposed to abortion would begin to...

An Evangelist’s Heart: Compassion During a qualifying heat for the 5,000-meter race at the 2016 Olympic Games, New Zealand runner Nikki Hamblin fell, accidentally tripping American runner Abbey D’Agostino. The two women took turns helping each other to stand and then finish the race. Though neither medaled, they were given the only Fair Play...

An Evangelist’s Heart: Holiness In a 2012 conference address, author Albert Mohler said, “We shouldn’t expect that the gospel will have credibility if we don’t look like gospel people.” As important as our spoken message is—and it is essential—we must also testify about Christ with our entire lives. Christians ought to be beacons of holiness...

Never Alone In Lone Survivor, a memoir of life as a Navy SEAL, Marcus Luttrell explains one of the central tenets of SEAL team conduct: never leave a man behind. “It’s a sacred promise to us from our high command,” he writes. “That’s why it gets drummed into us from the very first day . . . you are not going to be alone. Ever.” The work of...

Israel: The Unfaithful Bride In 1993, scientists began to work with Eugene Pauly—or “E.P.” as the medical literature referred to him. Suffering from viral encephalitis, Pauly had lain in a life-threatening coma for ten days. Though he survived, Pauly lost memory from the previous three decades of his life as well as the ability to form new...

Yahweh: The Prosecutor When U.S. Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his post in Afghanistan, he claimed that he wanted to report on misconduct in his unit. Instead, he was captured by the Taliban and tortured for five years. When he was finally released and eventually tried for desertion, the judge in his court-martial sentenced...

Plague and Promise In his book Surprised by Hope, N. T. Wright explores the surprising good news of God’s judgment. “We have judged apartheid and found it wanting. We judge child abusers and find them guilty. We judge genocide and find it outrageous. We have rediscovered what the Psalmists knew: that for God to judge the world meant that...