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In a racially divided world, the church of Jesus Christ ought not simply to advocate for racial reconciliation; we ought to embody it.

I remember being shocked as a young adult by some Hollywood wedding (a true story) in which the traditional vows were replaced with promises to be...

Paraphrasing a line attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most segregated hour in America is still 11:00am on Sunday morning. It's a sad...

The first answer is to talk to God, but how many times have you done that and still cannot figure out what He is saying. What do you do then—when...

So many churches focus on finding and promoting charismatic leaders while ignoring or assuming these significant lists of character-based and...

I’m often asked for book recommendations on various subjects. Here's my list of resources on depression that I've found helpful.

If your God always does what you want, he’s probably not the God of the Bible.

We too often have adopted allies on the basis of their intensity of outrage rather than on their consistency with the gospel. If you are angry with...

This is a simple post. When you are discouraged, remember these seven words: There is a God on the loose.

Last week, I was summoned by a 6-year-old little girl in my church. She had some questions about why her daddy had left her and her mommy and was...

Jesus confronted Saul of Tarsus on the way to commit violence, and turned him around, using him to carry the gospel to all of us. And the Lord can...

Is Google our new “God? ” It’s a question I raised in my book, The Church in an Age of Crisis. But I wasn’t the first to raise it.

The charge to guard the truth of the gospel and the apostle’s teaching has been passed down and entrusted to faithful men—undershepherds of the...

Many Christians suffer with anxiety and depression, even pastors, and they often do so in silence.

In a 2011 interview with Stephen Colbert, reggae legend Jimmy Cliff was asked if he was currently a member of a religion. He answered, “No, I’ve...