Closing Out the Year Strong

Is this ministry a blessing to you? Do you enjoy partnering with us in planting churches, training pastors and making new disciples? If so, would you prayerfully consider sending a special “Making Disciples Gift” to Thomas Road Worldwide by year’s end? All gifts will...

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Victory Amid the Strife of Life

I fear that the condition of our culture today is a direct result of Christians too often shirking their God-given responsibility to proclaim the Gospel.  That may sound like tough language, but the evidence is clear. So many of us are sitting back and complaining...

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What Are Local Church Centers?

 Through our Liberty Church Network, we have launched 15 Local Church Centers in the U.S., with plans to launch many more in the months to come. At these centers, we conduct much of our pastoral training programs. Our centers also serve as havens of encouragement and...

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Thanksgiving For The Christian

I love Thanksgiving and the family warmth and historic importance of the day. As followers of Christ, of course we need to be thankful every day, even when our lives are in turmoil. Recall that I Thessalonians 5:16-18 tells us: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing,...

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Why the Virgin Birth Is So Important.

The virgin birth of Jesus is the central theme of the Christmas story and illustrates the wonder of the Christ child who experienced physical birth like you and me. He was born the sinless, perfect Son of God whose very beginning on earth was the result of an...

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Flying Blind

As a pilot, I can tell you that the first few times you are flying blind, it can be pretty intimidating.  You must use only your instruments for navigation because the weather is preventing you from actually seeing where you are flying.  Because the mist or clouds...

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Doing The Right Thing

I admit up front that doing the right thing is not always easy to do. In our humanity, we want to trust God, but waiting on Him can be so hard. When I think of trusting God and doing the right thing, I picture my father. A few years after he planted Thomas Road...

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Faithful vs. Popular

Soon after my father passed away in May 2007, I wrote an article titled, “Are You Controversial?” In it, I noted how controversy followed dad, largely because he took a stand for Christ wherever he went. If we are speaking out for Christ, it is quite likely that we...

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How We Are Confronting Culture

  Here is our Top Three List of things we believe the church should be doing to confront culture: 1. PLANTING NEW CHURCHES. In order to challenge our increasingly Godless culture, we need active, determined, Bible-believing churches that will prayerfully and...

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Running From Truth

We live in a confounding world. We see people constantly running away from Truth, while claiming that they desire truth. You know, it is actually quite natural for us, in our humanity, to run away from God. We all have a sinful nature and even we who know Christ as...

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Churches Must Confront the Culture

  In I Timothy 3:15, the church is described as “the pillar and ground of the truth.” This indicates that the church needs to be about the business of proclaiming this truth within our culture. To accomplish this objective, the church must be seen and heard....

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How You Can Engage The Culture

At East Liverpool (Ohio) High School, it was recently announced that commencement would no longer include Mozart’s “Requiem Mass,” Handel’s “Messiah” or “The Lord’s Prayer” — all because an atheist group complained about these 70-year-old traditions. These types of...

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