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This week my denomination, through its executive committee, voted to “disfellowship” a congregation in California that has acted to affirm same-sex...

What do you do when your church changes? Grow with it.

“The best thing you can do for a child is to encourage their mother,” writes Lisa-Jo Baker on Surprised by Motherhood.

Prayer is an act of weakness. When we pray we admit to God that we desperately need help. That we’re weak and needy and not in control of all...

Every Christian’s every smile, joy, and pleasure, is an answer to Christ's prayer. Every Christian who is dejected and depressed is being prayed...

In Scripture, music provides a platform for mutual and reflective praise, joy, thanksgiving, lament, hope, victory, and the recollection of the...

My prayer is that as my children grow up, they will be so rooted in Christ that they’ll never question whether they belong.

Parenting is hard – probably the hardest job there is. How can parents resist encouraging bad attitudes in their kids?

What do you do when you've lost your spark, but you long to shine? It's time to nurture and recapture your heart with rest.

With jaw-dropping vigor, ignorance, and at times unblushing gall, increasing sectors of the evangelical world are abandoning two thousand years of...

We are moving in the West further along this path as a post-Christian culture. No longer are Christian terms and biblical concepts commonplace....

"Is ministry and worship on the Lord’s Day compromised by my allegiance to football on Saturday and Sunday?" And that's just question one, guys.

We can't be ruled by our feelings or led by them.

The trailer for Billy Graham's new film, "Heaven," was released recently. It's the one I had the privilege to be a part of.

Jesus died for big, impossible, amazing, miraculous, eternal, radical things. So, what DIDN'T Christ die for?