The Gospel Forum

06/20/2026

Walk into evangelical churches on a given Sunday and you will often meet one of two extremes. In one, the service is ordered and theologically careful. Doctrines are explained, creeds are recited with precision, and yet something is missing. There is little warmth, little sign of transformation, little evidence that these truths have reached the heart. Faith lives in the mind but seldom touches the affections.

In another, the atmosphere could not be more different. Emotion runs high and testimonies abound. People speak readily of what God is doing in their lives, of impressions and feelings and encounters. Yet doctrine is thin, and there is little to hold the soul steady when feelings fade or when experience runs contrary to Scripture.

Walk into evangelical churches on a given Sunday and you will often meet one of two extremes. In one, the service is ordered and theologically careful. Doctrines are explained, creeds are recited with precision, and yet something is missing. There is little warmth, little sign of transformation, lit

06/10/2026

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06/10/2026

Does Your Christianity Make You Look Different to an Unbeliever?

If someone watched your life for a week, would they know you're a Christian—without you saying a word?

If someone watched your life for a week, would they know you're a Christian—without you saying a word? Back in 1989, I was a 21-year-old lost young woman. Having lived a very ungodly life as a teen model and actress in Japan, I was desperate for change—desperate to find something that would lift...

06/01/2026

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Justification has been called the doctrine on which the church stands or falls. To grasp it rightly, we must hold the balance between legalism and antinomianism.

05/29/2026

We live in an age that has lost confidence in truth itself. Not particular truths, though those are contested endlessly, but the very possibility of truth as something given rather than made. This is the inheritance of postmodernism, the philosophical settlement that has reshaped how the modern person thinks about knowledge, reality, and meaning.

The postmodern says, speak your truth and make it real. The distorted Charismatic says, speak your desire and make it happen. Biblical faith says something far better than either. Seek God's truth. Speak in alignment with it. Trust God to accomplish His purposes in His way and His timing.

05/27/2026

Should Christians “live and let live” when it comes to morality, s*xuality, marriage, abortion, and gender? In this episode of The Gospel Forum, Dan, Micah, and Shawn continue answering questions from the 2026 conference Q&A and discuss why Christian silence is not always loving.

They also address a modern misuse of Genesis 1:27, explaining why Scripture does not teach a gender spectrum, but clearly presents mankind as created male and female.

Should Christians “live and let live” when it comes to morality, se...

05/26/2026

In a culture where churches exist on nearly every corner, the question is no longer whether there is a church, but how to discern which one you should join.

In a culture where churches exist on nearly every corner, the question is no longer whether there is a church, but how to discern which one you should join. This decision is more consequential than most Christians treat it. The church you sit under will shape your view of God, your understanding of

05/22/2026

Human beings are drawn naturally toward tribal affiliations. The families, communities, and spiritual leaders who have shaped us hold a place of deep affection in our hearts, and there is a certain dignity in defending devout pastors and theologians from unjust criticism. Yet when that defense becomes a barrier to truth, when we close ranks to protect "our side" rather than to honor God's Word, we have crossed from biblical faithfulness into spiritual idolatry. Loyalty is commendable only when grounded in Scripture and in allegiance to Christ, who declared, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free" (John 8:32).

Tribalism offers the comfort of belonging but exacts the price of truth. To prize truth above tribal loyalty is not to abandon community or to grow cynical toward leaders. It is to repent of an idolatry we may not have known we held, and to redirect our deepest allegiance to the One who alone deserv

05/18/2026

One of the greatest lies the world tells about s*x is that it belongs to the individual. It is my body, my desire, my satisfaction, my choice. The world treats s*x as something to be used for personal gratification, self-expression, or pleasure without covenant responsibility. Scripture gives us a completely different picture.

One of the greatest lies the world tells about s*x is that it belongs to the individual. It is my body, my desire, my satisfaction, my choice. The world treats s*x as something to be used for personal gratification, self-expression, or pleasure without covenant responsibility. Scripture gives us a c

05/16/2026