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Laughter is the best medicine. And that's why you should always laugh at sick people.

I’ve written here before about what an influence the singer-songwriter Michael Card has had on my life and theology. In this week’s episode, Mike joins me in the studio to talk about the only song of his that I don’t like.

The United States is “bigger, older, more Hispanic and Asian and less wedded to marriage and traditional families than it was in 1990.”

Rumor has it that there is a moral code in professional hockey that guides how players hit each other or when they fight. Supposedly everyone knows it and it is universally seen as “dirty pool” when someone breaks this code. However, whether the code actually exists is a matter of debate. Is there such a code in the Christian blogosphere?

A new Christian writes to ask about the nature and purpose of baptism.

Martin Luther was once approached by a man who enthusiastically announced that he’d recently become a Christian. Wanting desperately to serve the Lord, he asked Luther, “What should I do now?” As if to say, should he become a minister or perhaps a traveling evangelist. A monk, perhaps.

According to recent studies, almost half of all American college students will abandon their Christian faith during their undergraduate years.

Some think that fiction is wrong because it’s “not true.” Hardly! I read more fiction than I do non-fiction, if you exempt the Bible from consideration, and I consider it, most often, truer than anything in the world.

Should we be surprised that the Lord chose to do such great things through William Carey when he had such a prayer warrior pleading with the Lord for his work?

To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, “Nothing clears the mind like the certain knowledge that you will be shot in the morning."

The Spanish translation of Credo: Believing in Something to Die For has just been released.

From creation to redemption, in ten quick steps.

An assumption is taking something for granted. It’s supposing something to be a fact.

Leave it to God to give me food for thought from a memoir written by someone not exactly purporting to have a biblical worldview.

Here's a great quote from Richard Lovelace that addresses a daily problem that Christians face: failing to realize the present power of Christ’s justifying work on our behalf. This quote is worth reading over and over again...

Instead of allowing God to speak into her circumstances, Naomi interpreted God through those circumstances. When her life was good, God was good; when her life went bad, she believed that God was bad.

Throughout the first decade of the new millennium, multiple studies—revealing a crisis among youth in the church—seemed to appear almost every year and now in 2011, the research still shows no improvement. It is astonishing to note that despite the continued evidence demonstrating the American church’s failure to adequately and holistically disciple the faithful into maturity; the leadership in so many of our churches continue to do the same thing

Family and close friends gathered with “Uncle John” as they listened to Handel's Messiah.

So how should Christians engage homosexuality, and the various issues it presents to our culture, going forward?

The most divisive and contentious issue of our day is no longer abortion; it is gay marriage.