Serious About Scripture

Mentoring and motivating Christ’s people to live his words

Getting John 1:12 Right: Should You Invite Jesus Into Your Heart?

Is it useful to critique any person’s or ministry’s method of evangelism? For one thing, there are not enough people calling on others to follow Christ. Should I attempt to cripple anyone’s efforts in the slightest way, even for the few who might listen to me? I hope I will not. I would rather think that I’m improving our evangelism. And it does need improving. The apparent results of the method of evangelistic appeal built upon the verse in question…

An Amazing Promise NOT for You (Jeremiah 29:10-14)

10 “For thus says the LORD, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.11 For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.13 You will seek Me and…

HALLOWEEN or REFORMATION by guest author Ron Owens

While millions will be celebrating HALLOWEEN, and spending over $13,000,000,000 (billion) this coming Saturday, how many of us will be celebrating REFORMATION DAY, or even be thinking of what happened on October 31, 1517, 509 years ago? Who would have suspected that the sound of a hammer striking the Castle Church (Schlosskirche) door in Wittenberg, Germany on that day would be heard around the world, and ultimately lead to one of the greatest transformations of Western society since the Apostles…

What Parents Can Do if They Contributed to Their Teens’ Rebellion

We all have regrets. You might wish you had continued those piano lessons. Or perhaps you’re sorry you didn’t spend more time with your grandparents before their passing. One of the worst regrets in life is looking back and saying, “I was such an absent father,” or, “If only I had done things differently as a mother, maybe my children would love the Lord today.” I’ve known some parents of teenagers who had major regrets. They knew Ephesians 6:4 by…