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Raising sons is a joy. Here are the five things every son must hear from Dad.

There are billions of stories unfolding in this world. What a joy it will be to trace these threads, these stories, to see how they are interwoven,...

Why the gospel forces us to talk about two realities at the same time

This is a good little book, just as it was a powerfully challenging chapter in "Don’t Waste Your Life."

A new school curriculum which will affect 46 out of 50 states will make it mandatory for at least 70 percent of books studied to be non-fiction....

The law is like a brush-fire. I cannot escape it. But if I stand in the burned-over place, where law has already burned its way through, then I...

There has been a seismic shift in outreach that few church leaders are understanding, much less pursuing.

What bothers me is that it seems that we are tempted to trade unity for blog traffic.

How can we be used by the Lord to help turn hearts toward Him if we're not willing to sit and listen to the hearts of those who don't acknowledge...

Are you "double-hearted"?

The idea of Western individual spirituality--me and God--actually hurts the process of change.

A few months ago I shared a few lessons I’ve learned along the way—a few things I’ve learned about preaching since I rather unexpectedly found...

That is an occupational hazard for a preacher of the gospel and a fatal flaw in our makeup, this “wanting to please people.” God help us. The...

The Old Testament was written in the language of its writers, which was Hebrew, and the New Testament was written in Greek.

Sometime back a survey from the Barna Group yielded six reasons young people leave the church.