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The world has about eight billion people distributed over its surface in remote villages and massive congested cities. Estimates vary but it is believed there are about four thousand recognized religions in the world with Christianity first with 2.5 billion adherents, Islam comes in second with 1.9...

Paul Harvey, the beloved radio broadcaster who chronicled mysterious “rest of the stories” for America with his nationally syndicated program, shared this sad but true account of “Sparky”: WHEN HE WAS a little boy the other children called him, “Sparky,” after a comic-strip horse named Sparkplug...

Editor's Note: Christian Focus has graciously supplied us with a chapter from Rob Ventura's forthcoming book Equipped to Evangelize: A Biblical Foundation. Ref21 will publish portions of chapter one along with endorsements over the next several months in anticipation of its September release date...

A (Brief) Theology of the Sabbath By Dale Ralph Davis From ‘Is Reformation Really Possible? Or: The Ongoing Perils of the Church (Nehemiah 13:4-31) in Ezra & Nehemiah: The Quest for Restoration , Focus on the Bible (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2025), pp 195-97. A bit about the background and...

Fundamentally (an interesting choice of opening word given its vexed history in Protestantism; here I mean by it “essentially” but in the sense of “foundationally,” what is at base rather than merely what is at the core or essence of a thing), the church in Western culture is facing a trilogy of...

In college, I lived with seven of my best friends in apartment Nu 8, “The Ocho.” Our living room was placarded with posters displaying our various passions: a Pulp Fiction scene with John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson pointing pistols at a hapless victim, an atomic mushroom cloud, the album art of...

In our judgments of individuals, the Scriptures offer various binaries: one is either a child of God or a child of the devil (Jn. 1:12; 8:44; 1 Jn. 3:8–12; Matt. 13:38); one either has the Spirit of Christ or does not have the Spirit of Christ (Rom. 8:9); one either walks in darkness or in the...

To the American fashion industry: I am both amazed and appalled. Somehow, you have managed to make America clothed and nude at the same time. And you convinced mainstream culture that it is acceptable. You glorify and splash across the front pages the women who wear see-through dresses to the Met...

It is difficult to argue against the claim that Princeton Theological Seminary of Princeton, New Jersey occupied a—if not the —principal position of influence in shaping American Reformed Christianity in the nineteenth century. The years between its founding in 1812 and the resignation of Dr. J...

Jack is not going to seminary. He has a good job, he is settled in his local church, and he wants to minister in his home state, preferably his hometown. Staying put permits him to help in his local church and to build connections he’ll need in the future. Jack will get his book learning from...