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There is enormous energy spent by many Christians on protecting the unborn. But what about protecting the long-born?

God’s good law reveals our desperation; God’s good gospel reveals our deliverer. We are in constant need of both.

I don’t mean to be a curmudgeon and I don’t mean to be insensitive, truly. Colson may not have set out to do this and he may not even have understood that he was doing this, but it remains a fact that there are two prominent and public testaments to his willingness to tamper with the purity of the gospel… (Read more)

By way of a little refresher, here are some of the main stars, if you will, of the Old Testament, in order of their appearance in that truly awesome book

Why is this simple lesson, being learned by necessity over and over by other groups, agencies and enterprises, so resisted by the church?

Slacktivism, a term coined in the mid-1990s, refers to the increasingly popular phenomenon of casual activism.

These three words guided Chuck Colson's life.

Forget about evolution or climate change. Disneynature’s newest nature film is solely about primates . . . and doing the right thing.

This morning we start a major ministry trip to New England.

The CDC found that 1 out of every 4 women surveyed say they were violently attacked by their husbands or boyfriends.

Recovering the distinction between law and gospel is THE answer to the church rediscovering the gospel in our day

Debate routinely swirls around accused terrorists or enemy combatants of the United States concerning whether or not they have a right to due process. An answer to that question may be determined case to case.

A woman writes in with an emotionally grueling problem.

Wheaties has fallen on to hard times of late. There are many reasons, but industry insiders say that the heart of the matter is simple. It’s in “no-man’s land.”

I have come to believe that the most urgent business of the Church is not the evangelization of the lost, as important as that is, but the re-evangelization of the saved...

"Fire and Rain: The Wild-Hearted Faith of Elijah" is now available as a free ebook.

If you lie, commit adultery, take drugs, break the speed limit, drink and drive, and willingly handle stolen goods, you’re in good company. Or at least company.

Perhaps we need to consider simplifying our “worlds,” so that we may be ready to answer: “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

Standing at Thomas Jefferson's grave reminds me how limited even his legacy can be, in the grand scheme of trillions of years of cosmic time.

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