Articles by Our Coaches

Is it a sin to be cremated? While this may seem like a random or odd question, it’s actually one I hear regularly as a pastor. After losing a loved one, some Christians begin to wrestle with whether or not it is sinful to have their body cremated versus having a bodily burial. I actually grew up around a tradition of Christianity that frowned on cremation, but when you talk to people who assist families in making decisions concerning death, they will tell you that statistical

As Christians, we believe in and celebrate the bodily resurrection of Jesus. We also rejoice in knowing that because of His resurrection, we will experience a bodily resurrection. But what would life be like had God not raised Christ from the dead? There is no more beautiful treatment of the resurrection in the New Testament than in the fifteenth chapter of the book of First Corinthians. Responding to those in Corinth who denied the idea of bodily resurrection, Paul takes us

How often do you think about the Lord’s presence in your life? In Exodus 33:15, we find Moses declaring to the Lord, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.” What we should thirst for more than anything in this life is the manifest presence of God—in our lives, our homes, our churches, in our relationships. We know that the Bible teaches God is omnipresent, meaning He is in all places at all times, which is true. The same Scripture that teaches us

D.J. Horton said one of his main “dad speeches” that he gives his kids is this — “Do not let life happen to you; you happen to life.” For him, that idea carries over into the beatitude he preached on at the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference June 12 — “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God” (Matt. 5:9). “If there is one way this beatitude differentiates itself, it is that it is the one that stands alone as a call to action,” sai