Someone recently approached me asking about the evil spirit from God  after a sermon on 1 Samuel 19 and 20 . I believe there is real value in sharing questions and having honest conversations about things in Scripture, so I figured I should share that answer with you as well. It was a thoughtful question, and it deserves a Biblical answer that is rooted in the Word of God. When the Bible tells us that an evil spirit from the Lord troubled Saul, it is important to understand w

I have spoken with believers who try to frame cowardice as a Christian virtue. Many believers have confused softness with spirituality and passive surrender with Christlikeness. Somewhere along the way, “harmless as doves” stopped being balanced with “wise as serpents.” The result is a generation of Christians who believe the most spiritual thing they can do is to let a criminal carve them up like Thanksgiving turkeys while they recite the Beatitudes through a forced smile. L

There was a day when the church feared sin. Now the church fears looking strange. Somewhere between Corinth and Laodicea, we learned to baptize carnality as long as it stayed quiet, clean, and socially acceptable. The devil does not mind if you sit in a Baptist church. He minds if you live a holy life. So he has outfitted a new line of sins that wear suits, sing hymns, and bow their heads during prayer. The average Christian would never dream of robbing a bank or running a me