Opinion

• When I Give God My Best, He Gives His Best to Me and Through Me Anxiety is the most common mental disorder in the US. In my wife’s excellent recent blog on anxiety and thankfulness, she notes that “experiences of high psychological distress are especially widespread among young adults.”... Jul 20, 2023

  

  When I Give God My Best, He Gives His Best to Me and Through Me
• Investing and Inviting to Achieve Maximum Impact The core dynamic of evangelism is investing and inviting. Let’s start off with the invest part. Investing in someone is simply about building a relationship: getting to know them, spending time with them, entering into... Jul 20, 2023

  

  Investing and Inviting to Achieve Maximum Impact
• Questions to Ask Yourself When You're Feeling Off Spiritually God puts us in deeper waters through many different aspects of our lives. Maybe it’s a new job that requires way more than you feel capable of, and you lose your bearings on who you are and what you can do. Maybe you lost a... Jul 19, 2023

  

  Questions to Ask Yourself When You're Feeling Off Spiritually
• Why Caring for Children Has Always Been a Priority of the Church Nineteenth century India was a particularly brutal place for girls. Women were considered inferior to men and were not allowed to be educated or employed. Child marriage was a fairly common practice. Though the practice of sati... Jul 19, 2023

  Why Caring for Children Has Always Been a Priority of the Church
• The Post-Christian Trajectory of Our Culture Does Not Have to Be Ours The Scottish theologian Sinclair Ferguson is right: “We cannot reach our destination if we are traveling in the wrong direction.” But the post-Christian, even anti-Christian trajectory of our culture does not have to be ours.... Jul 19, 2023

  The Post-Christian Trajectory of Our Culture Does Not Have to Be Ours
• Tears – The Battle Cry of a Dying Nation Don't let your past failures make you think you've caused irreparable damage. Don't lose heart; you will be amazed at what God will do with humility, brokenness, and repentance. You may not be able to change your... Jul 18, 2023

  Tears – The Battle Cry of a Dying Nation
• Being Christian in an Age of Heightened Hostility For the sake of our neighbors, all who believe in the importance of truth must continue to say so. Jul 18, 2023

  Being Christian in an Age of Heightened Hostility
• The Urgency and Power of Discernment Yesterday we focused on the battle being waged in our culture against a spiritual enemy who “comes only to steal and kill and destroy” (John 10:10, my emphasis). Today let’s add the fact that winning this battle depends greatly... Jul 18, 2023

  The Urgency and Power of Discernment
• How Two SCOTUS Dissents Reveal Worldview Since objective truth doesn’t exist, justice is left to the eye of the beholder. Once, in a presentation to congressional staffers, Justice Sonia Sotomayor was asked about the foundation of justice in our country. She replied... Jul 17, 2023

  How Two SCOTUS Dissents Reveal Worldview
• What Mission Impossible Teaches Us about the Battle for Our World My wife and I saw Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One over the weekend and I understand why one of its actors called it “the biggest action movie of all time.” Without giving away the plot, I can tell you that Ethan... Jul 17, 2023

  What Mission Impossible Teaches Us about the Battle for Our World