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Yesterday I was driving home lost in thought. I have been teaching about grace and I was thinking about the tension between grace and law. Flashing...

The Wall Street Journal weighed in on the latest virginity pledge study, noting importantly that religious teens - whether or not they've taken a...

The teen birth rate in the United States increased in 26 of the 50 states in 2006, representing almost every region of the country, according to a...

Family worship doesn’t have to be complicated, and it doesn’t take someone with a seminary degree to pull it off.

More than half of teens who use the social networking site MySpace have posted information about sexual behavior, substance abuse or violence, new...

Sometimes I wonder how we will be grouped in heaven. Will there be an eHarmony kind of questionnaire to assign us to the right small group? ...

The findings of the recent study concluding virginity pledges are ineffective grabbed the headlines last week. What flew below the radar was the...

Today I accomplished one of my least favorite tasks of the year. Taking down the Christmas decorations always makes me a bit melancholy. One of our...

On my morning walk I started thinking about how we should live in 2009. And I started thinking about adverbs. No kidding. Mrs. Graves would be...

The first day of a new year is a good time to stop, reflect, refocus and consider where we are going.

Jesus didn't die for a campus ministry.

A new study into the effectiveness of teen virginity pledges will no doubt fuel the fire of debate over the issue as well as whether or not the...

The Bible tells us we are mysteriously united to Jesus so that everything that is true of him, in terms of relation to his Father, is now true of...

Could you sum up your life in six words? After this year, some of you might say, “Sure. ‘It has been a living hell.’” Actually, hundreds...

We hear an awful lot these days about the Kingdom of God, and rightly so. Jesus himself calls us to seek first the Kingdom and God’s righteousness,...