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The Christmas season is once again upon us and with it overwhelming encouragement from Madison Avenue to spend what we have not earned to buy what we cannot afford. The thrust of this consumerist message is that the holiday is best enjoyed or most...

The Christmas season is once again upon us and with it overwhelming encouragement from Madison Avenue to spend what we have not earned to buy what we cannot afford.

The Christmas season is once again upon us and with it, overwhelming encouragement from Madison Avenue to spend what we have not earned to buy what we cannot afford. The day after Thanksgiving, known as “Black Friday,” indicating the period in...

A week after Tim’s memorial service, I’m still reveling in the afterglow of its poignant beauty. And I’m also reflecting on the effects of the amazing era ushered in by Tim’s ministry. His work inspired so many New Yorkers to come to faith and so...

The MacDonald/Platt discussion at "The Elephant Room" conference was tense at times, perhaps because the practical ramifications of how we think about money always hit close to home.

American Christianity is far less bloody than it used to be. We’re eager to speak of life, but hesitant to speak of blood. Yet, there is power—wonder-working power—in the blood. Our culture already sees that. They’re simply looking in the wrong...

Keith Urban won Entertainer of the Year at last night’s Academy of Country Music Awards. Thomas Rhett and Kacey Musgraves won Male and Female Artist of the Year. But, in my opinion, the most significant achievement in country music came earlier in...

God longs to use you and me to assist the homeless and harassed. What does the Bible say about our responsibility to these brothers and sisters of ours? How are we to respond?

The call to “not forsake assembling together” demands that we recognize the importance of the faithful gathering. The truth is, if we wish to draw closer to the Lord, be steadfast and hope, and encourage one another, assembling with the community...

We is it so hard to enjoy the good things God has given us?

There are few things more important to guard before a watching world than a church’s financial reputation.

"The Bible is pretty clear that we need to keep money in proper perspective," one author and deacon says.

We can echo Dickens: "It is the best of times, and...the worst of times." While we seem to live in the worst, from God's prophetic perspective, times couldn't be better.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) - Pope John Paul II urged President Bush in their first meeting together to bar creation of human embryos for medical research, saying Monday that America has a moral responsibility to reject actions that ``devalue and...