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We all know the two biggest rules for social media: 1) don’t put anything dumb out there for the world to see, and 2) leverage it as much as you...

I find it almost hard to believe now, but there was a time in my life that I hated coffee. At least I thought I did.

A new challenge game is going viral. It’s about connecting with a dead spirit from Mexico named “Charlie.” If you are ever invited to play this...

Out of one side of our mouth we speak allegiance to Jesus, but out of the other side we’re speaking allegiance to wealth.

News reports are filled with stories and analysis about Josh Duggar, the reality television star-turned-conservative activist, who is alleged to...

He loves overflowing praise and exuberance in His children. He just wants it based on something more substantial than the latest results.

After confessing to pedophilia, Jordan is currently in good standing with The Village Church. His wife is under church discipline. Why?

One of the most common objections made to the absolute claims of Christianity is that Christians are arrogant. Christians are arrogant to claim...

Forgiveness can be hard, and it’s usually far less satisfying than vengeance. We’d much rather see people pay for their crimes, especially when...

I believe that treating mental illness as only (or even primarily) a spiritual problem is both profoundly unbiblical and incredibly hurtful to...

By now you may have heard that a judge in Manhattan has ordered a hearing that will determine whether chimpanzees can be considered “legal persons”...

A number of scholars have insisted that the early fathers saw nothing distinctive about the NT writings as compared to writings being produced in...

The heart of the problem is the problem of the heart.

When I wrote "The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated," the most recent data revealed that the “nones” made...

To claim that the Bible doesn’t tell us what church should look like allows a person to substitute his own preferences for the clear teaching of...