Opinion

• Is It Biblical to Seek to Influence Culture? God’s Word makes plain that His plan involves not just the saving of souls but the restoration of His creation. His efforts in various times and places in history are according to this redemptive plan. The final chapters of... Apr 27, 2023

  

  Is It Biblical to Seek to Influence Culture?
• Four Steps to Practical Significance Once we are clear about our God-given identity, we can find transformative ways to use our God-given influence. Apr 27, 2023

  

  Four Steps to Practical Significance
• What Is Odinism? If I were to ask you who a Presbyterian, Methodist or Baptist was, you would have at least a general idea, even if the extent of your knowledge was only that they were a Christian who belonged to a Protestant group. But what if... Apr 27, 2023

  

  What Is Odinism?
• The Victims of Divorce: Statistics and Stories of Hurting Children A 2019 paper in World Psychiatry summarized that divorce and separation are associated with higher risk of academic difficulties, lower grades, higher school dropout rate, conduct and substance use problems, and depression.... Apr 26, 2023

  The Victims of Divorce: Statistics and Stories of Hurting Children
• What Is the Path to Our Best Future? The path to our best future lies not through the voting booth or the Oval Office but at the “throne of grace” (Hebrews 4:16). Only Jesus can forgive our sins, save our souls, and transform our lives. Only he can make fallen... Apr 26, 2023

  What Is the Path to Our Best Future?
• The Viral Kids Are not OK Recently, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt launched a Substack newsletter called After Babel to explore the cultural effects of social media which, he says, reminds him of the biblical account of the tower of Babel. Recorded... Apr 25, 2023

  The Viral Kids Are not OK
• Why We Can't Escape the Consequences of Our Choices While the future prospects for recently fired news anchors Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon look vastly different at the moment, both remind us that no amount of success can render us immune from the consequences of our choices.... Apr 25, 2023

  Why We Can't Escape the Consequences of Our Choices
• Should AI Be Shut Down? Recently, a number of prominent tech executives, including Elon Musk, signed an open letter urging a 6-month pause on all AI research. That was not enough for AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky. In an opinion piece for... Apr 24, 2023

  Should AI Be Shut Down?
• We Must Move to a 'God-Centered Dialogue' Now you and I have a choice to make. We can believe in a generic God and think that because we are religious, we have all of God we need. Or we can follow David’s example by making God our “rock” in every moment of every day as... Apr 24, 2023

  We Must Move to a 'God-Centered Dialogue'
• Women as Pastors If you have been watching the church world at all in recent months, I don’t need to walk you through the brouhaha surrounding Beth Moore leaving the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) over her calling to teach, or the attempt by... Apr 24, 2023

  Women as Pastors