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Christmas rolled around last year, right on schedule as I recall, and with it the annual platitudes about consumerized Christianity. As a youth pastor, I had set myself up for failure by assuming the worldly and the spiritual could be totally...

One of the things that really struck me from the movie "End of the Spear" was that in the Waodani language, there is no word for forgiveness. The concept was so foreign to that culture that no word had ever been coined. In our Christian culture we...

Often we do our best to discern God’s calls. We pray feverishly, take personality inventories, and seek professional as well as personal advice. Still, no calls arrive directly from God. Scripture teaches that God calls, but we imperfect creatures...

Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) admits that political conservatives have often failed to present a comprehensive vision of the underlying commitments and convictions that frame the conservative vision. Beyond this, he laments the fact that some...

We're a people who need community. However much we must focus on Jesus to meet our needs, standing straight and not allowing others to define us, we still need each other. So why don't we make healing a community activity?

President George W. Bush is recommending a book these days, and the President's new literary interest has caught the attention of the world press. President Bush is recommending Natan Sharansky's new book, The Case for Democracy, and he has made...

Southern Baptist evangelism statistics are grim, but they could be far worse. That’s the finding of a major new study by a leading church growth expert who argues empirical evidence demonstrates the Southern Baptist Convention is in an...

The decline of church discipline is perhaps the most visible failure of the contemporary church. No longer concerned with maintaining purity of confession or lifestyle, the contemporary church sees itself as a voluntary association of autonomous...

The first time I heard Dr. Al Mohler talk about why he believes adulthood equals marriage, I high-fived my car stereo. It was March 2003 and I was two months shy of turning 40 ... as a single woman.

It’s frustrating to be plagued by weaknesses, but they don’t have to be your undoing. Inside every weakness lies the potential for growth. By recognizing and confronting your weaknesses, you can actually use them to build strengths.

As the nation slides into a possible period of suffering, preachers should be voices crying in the wilderness about a better place.

What do the bees possibly have to do with end times prophecy? When will I get justice and what will it look like? When it comes to defeating my enemies (spiritual or not), what is God's formula for success? Learn new perspectives today...

Few activities in life rival the thrill of passing judgment on another human being. I don't believe I can go a day on God's green earth without in some way indulging in this forbidden art.

I asked my pastor about the four horses of the Apocalypse and he didn’t seem to know very much. Can you help me out?

Generation Z is faced with so many sources of confusion. They need strong, biblical principles to be taught at home in order to fight the lies with the truth.