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We’ve made the marketplace and money, technology and science, everything. But it isn’t. And there is one thing in particular it isn’t.

The answer comes back to three simple words.

There have been few things more damaging to the church’s witness than how it has handled moral failure among its leaders.

As they moved toward the baptistry, candidates were expected to recite the Creed, not to show that they “meant business” but in order to show that they were now entrusted with a glorious mystery of the faith, expected to preserve this for the next generation. (Read more)

The ultimate obscenity, the most profane word in the English vocabulary, the one personal epithet that cannot be hurled, is the “R” word. "Responsible."

On Saturday, April 21, Charles Wendell Colson died. On Wednesday of this week, I attended his memorial service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

Personal development is certainly not wrong, but it is misleading—and it can be very disappointing—to make it our preeminent goal.

Maurice Sendak, who just died, doesn’t seem, at first glance, to have much to teach Christians. But this atheist with a cynical outlook and a foul mouth saw something of the fallen glory of the universe we followers of Jesus sometimes ignore.

Our goal is to remove every barrier that exists between such persons and their acceptance of the scandal of the cross … except the scandal of the cross!

It’s been a breathtaking week on the culture front in relation to homosexuality.

Are you busy mixing or do you drink grace straight? Are you always in a spiritual hurry or is your soul free to rest and raise a glass?

It’s amazing the degree to which outreach strategies rest on a single, and deeply flawed, premise: That people want what you have to offer.

The headline is simple, but profound: “Mainline Protestants and Catholics who dominated the 20th century are literally losing ground to the rapid rise of Mormons and, increasingly, Muslims.” (RCMS Study)

If Jesus has done enough to accomplish salvation for us, are we satisfied with him?

Designing and marketing a newspaper to people who demonstrate no interest in reading the existing newspaper presents a challenge.

The preacher isn’t called to give his opinion on anything. He is called to say what God says.

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.

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

These three words guided Chuck Colson's life.