Sometimes, you just end up being alone on the Fourth of July. Well I say forget the picnic for one! This year, you won’t have to share your coleslaw and fried chicken with just the ants. I’m coming to your doodle-dandy rescue!

Sometimes in our attempt to reach out to the prodigals we know, we can intervene too soon. We may think that someone has hit rock bottom when they are still scheming a way out of their problems.

How sexual orientation takes the direction it does for any given individual continues to be a scientific puzzle. A new study from Sweden indicates that many roads may lead to the same outcome. Evangelicals need to allow these new findings to inform their understandings of homosexuality.

Two wars that feel like one fetid, ever-growing quagmire. A dollar that feels more like bad Kleenex than good money. Stranded polar bears having to figure out how to use sun screen. Can any of us REALLY have a happy Fourth? You betcha.

Dear Sen. McCain: Washington watchers know that you are a Teddy Roosevelt fan. That’s a good choice; TR didn’t get everything right, but no one does. He was one of our greatest leaders and I admire your taste...

When America’s second president, John Adams, and America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson, both died on the same day in 1826 – and that day was none other than the Fourth of July – it was seen as a sign of God’s favor on the United States. As historian David McCullough notes in his widely-acclaimed biography of Adams, it “could not be seen as mere coincidence.” It was a ‘visible and palpable’ manifestation of ‘Divine favor,’ wrote John Quincy in his diary that night, “expressing,” McCullough adds, “what was felt and would be said again and again everywhere the news spread.”

On Monday night Don Lough shared the advice he received from Howard Hendricks when Don was named as the next Executive Director of Word of Life. The advice is a powerful admonition for every pastor and every Christian leader.

What next? Put a fat, drugged MOUSE in there with him??

As of today, we Californians are not allowed to talk on our cell phones whilst driving--UNLESS we're doing so via a hands-free cell phone device. It's so stupid.

Remember back in the day, when the little "e" symbol for ecology was everywhere? I keep waiting for that little symbol to make its Big Comeback. I figure it already has, and I've just somehow missed it. But if not, let's bring it back, I say! Right on!

Truth, absolute truth that comes from God's revelation of Himself in His Word, defies the vote of the majority. It flies in the face of opinion polls and focus groups. What makes Barack Obama, Jim Wallis or anyone else believe the only way truth can be injected into the public arena is by stuffing it with reason and coating it with compromise?