My heart is heavy today. During the last several months, people have pointed out on social media that the thief on the cross was delivered to paradise even though he had not been baptized, had not given financially, had not done anything else that Christians are...

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in...

In the first several centuries of the church, it was becoming common to plan for baptisms to take place on the day they celebrated the resurrection of Jesus (not yet called Easter). The church did not have the view that as soon as you became a believer, you should be...