Religion
The Story: Two Israeli embassy staffers—including one who was a Christian—were killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, earlier this week ...
We proclaim our belief that God works all things for our good and his glory (Rom. 8:28). We affirm that the Lord will fulfill his purpose for us (Ps. 138:8) ...
Believers appreciate Isaiah 9:2–7 because Isaiah prophesies about the child, a son, who will be named “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father an...
Cultural perceptions of transgender theory have shifted recently. Evidence continues to mount that cross-sex hormones have generally negative outcomes for mi...
Melissa Kruger and Courtney Doctor talk about how to seek out the counsel of wise friends and how to respond well when friends seek your counsel. They discus...
Feeling marital distance can be like sharing a home with a stranger. An emotional gap in marriage is one of the leading causes of divorce 58% of divorced cou...
My worn Bible lay open before me. I had that look of pained reflection that often attends my guided prayer times. Hoping for fresh insight, I reread Psalm 33...
Many of us learned about the Bible for the first time in Sunday school classes or youth group Bible studies. Perhaps in college we learned how to study it fo...
They have been quick to brand the new pope an ‘anti-Trump’ ‘total Marxist’. In return, he is already critiquing their worldviewIn the outer reaches of the Ma...
As we seek unity in our churches, there are three counterfeit forms of unity to watch out for.
The first is coercive unity, in which people are pressured to...
Most pro-life Christians are well versed in the scriptural, philosophical, and scientific arguments that support our belief that the fetus is a person. We ca...
Across the United States, we see a generational crisis in our churches. Older and younger Christians often don’t understand each other and their differing pr...
When I was younger, a particular kind of 3D picture was popular: You could easily identify the picture at first glance, but if you stared at it long enough, ...
Paul commands us to set our minds on things above (Col. 3:1–4), and one reason for this instruction is that it’s so much easier not to. All sorts of diversio...
In 1969, John Stott had a counterintuitive idea. The fruit of this idea continues to hone and challenge my preaching all these years later.
Each time someon...
I was the kid who couldn’t wait for the first day of school. Newly sharpened pencils and crisp, clean notebook paper made me giddy. Each subject seemed like ...
If you’ve wandered into certain back alleys of the internet, you’ve likely run across discussions of the “friend-enemy distinction.” Carl Schmitt, a German p...
Every time I teach a course on the Pentateuch, the topic of God’s law comes up. I typically ask, “When you hear the phrase ‘God’s law,’ does it leave you wit...
Scammers’ souls | Peter Sullivan | ‘The enemy within’ | Strangers to whom? | State ownership of newspapersYears ago I decided to interrupt cold callers (Lett...
In his days as a young monk, Martin Luther struggled to love God. His words looking back were, “Love God? I hated him!” This isn’t surprising, since all Luth...
I don’t know where it came from, but now it seems to be everywhere. I hear it on podcasts and TV shows. I’ve seen it on T-shirts and social media graphics. A...
