What do I mean by “fickleness” among Christians? Here are four examples to give you the picture. Exhibit A. Christina is on fire for the Lord. Four years later, she turns away from Him and goes back into the world. Exhibit B. Doug is fully engaged in the deeper journey. Three years later, he loses all interest in it and instead opts for superficial religious intellectualism, confusing it with spirituality. Exhibit C. Josh is on track to become a worker... Read more

I appreciate all the emails testifying how the recent conference messages on restoration that dropped two weeks ago so many of you ablaze. Most Christians who are impacted by a book, an article, a podcast, or a spoken message will never tell the author/speaker, so it’s always encouraging to receive such testimonials. God uses every one of them. One of my publishers – Tyndale – informed me that sales for my book Hang On, Let Go: What to Do When Your... Read more

Since my landmark book Insurgence released, I’ve been privileged to appear on many different radio programs and podcasts, sharing about the gospel of the kingdom. During one of those interviews, the host said he got chills and goose bumps many times. Interestingly, I had no such experience while talking, so his report came as a surprise. Not long after, someone else who heard the interview wrote us and said they experienced chills and goose bumps while listening. The same thing... Read more

They are in no particular order, but these are eight things evangelical Christianity never taught me: How to practically live by the Christ who dwells inside me. How to practically learn how to hear the Lord’s voice beyond “pray and read your Bible.” That church-as-we-know-it is drastically different from church-as-God-would-have-it. What the gospel of the kingdom is and how radically it can alter a human life. How deep the tentacles of the world system go and how to break with it. That... Read more

As I explained in Insurgence, the gospel of the kingdom leads to inheriting the conscious presence of Christ. Right here, right now. During one of our Deeper Christian Life Conferences in Orlando, FL, we practically sought the Lord’s presence and virtually all who attended encountered Him in fresh and surprising ways. The heaven’s opened to us and we were wrecked. The following is a short excerpt from one of the seven messages I delivered in that conference. In the excerpt,... Read more

Last summer, a friend suggested that I relaunch my vision for a ministry dream team after I released my signature book Insurgence: Reclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom. His thinking was that the book would give leaders a startlingly clear vision of what the dream team would be focused on. To wit, the team would labor together arm-in-arm to proclaim the explosive gospel of the kingdom and spread the Insurgence. So at my friend’s suggestions, I crafted a brand new... Read more

I’ve had 7 conversation partners on the podcast, including recording several episodes with the late Michael Heiser. At the moment, we are very close to 700,000 downloads. Our goal is 1 million downloads. If you’re a Christian who is interested in the kingdom of God, you don’t want to miss it.  The idea of this podcast has been brewing in me even before I launched what many have called my signature book, INSURGENCE: Reclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom. All... Read more

The Genuine Jesus and the Counterfeit Christs by Simon Gathercole presents a rigorous defense of orthodox Christian claims about Jesus against alternative portraits found in non-canonical gospels and contemporary scholarly reconstructions. Writing with both academic precision and pastoral concern, Gathercole argues that the canonical Gospels provide a more historically reliable picture of Jesus than either the apocryphal texts or modern revisionist theories that have captured popular imagination. Gathercole’s central thesis is straightforward: the so-called “lost gospels”—including the Gospel of Thomas,... Read more

The Fourth Synoptic Gospel by Mark Goodacre challenges a longstanding consensus in New Testament scholarship by arguing that the Gospel of John was not composed independently of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, but rather demonstrates literary dependence upon them. This provocative thesis upends generations of scholarly assumptions about John’s origins and invites a fundamental reconsideration of how the Fourth Gospel relates to its canonical counterparts. Goodacre’s central argument directly confronts the dominant view that John represents an independent tradition about Jesus,... Read more

I’ve gone on record stating that Craig S. Keener is the greatest New Testament scholar in the world when it comes to the background of Matthew to Revelation. For that reason, I was deeply honored when he wrote the Foreword to my new book, The Untold Story of the New Testament Church: Revised and Expanded (2025). Keener released another marvelous book recently. 1-2 Peter, Jude by Craig S. Keener, part of the Word and Spirit Commentary series, exemplifies what biblical... Read more