Opinion

• The Courageous Power of Intimacy with Jesus This week, we are discovering practical ways to experience Christ more powerfully during the Christmas season. Dec 02, 2020

  

  The Courageous Power of Intimacy with Jesus
• Ordinances Banning 'Sexual Orientation Change Efforts' Are Unconstitutional, Says 11th Circuit Many Christians, have bought into what might be called “the inevitability thesis.” Nearly everything in our culture has convinced them to assume that it is futile for anyone to resist their same-sex attractions. And, any... Dec 01, 2020

  

  Ordinances Banning 'Sexual Orientation Change Efforts' Are Unconstitutional, Says 11th Circuit
• Man Put a Black Santa Claus on His Lawn and Got a Racist Note: Responding to Hate with Love That Shapes Our Souls As with every other season of this year, the many tragedies and challenges of 2020 are affecting Christmas. But there is opportunity in the pain of these days. Dec 01, 2020

  

  Man Put a Black Santa Claus on His Lawn and Got a Racist Note: Responding to Hate with Love That Shapes Our Souls
• Focusing this Christmas on 'The Only Relationship That Matters' This is a Christmas season like no other in living memory. Time reports that “the US COVID-19 outbreak is worse than it’s ever been.” Dr. Anthony Fauci warned in an interview yesterday that, following Thanksgiving travel, the... Nov 30, 2020

  Focusing this Christmas on 'The Only Relationship That Matters'
• Emmanuel! Readings for Advent Advent is a time to recall God’s utter and unstoppable faithfulness to His people. Though Israel failed to keep its covenant with God, made at Sinai and renewed on several occasions afterward, He always intended to keep His... Nov 30, 2020

  Emmanuel! Readings for Advent
• Physics and Free Will: Do Our Decisions Actually Mean Anything? When Christians use the term "free will," it often refers to the debate over whether we choose God or God chooses us. On the other hand, when the term "free will" is used by evolutionary biologists, the debate is over whether... Nov 25, 2020

  Physics and Free Will: Do Our Decisions Actually Mean Anything?
• Predictions for the Future and Three Reasons for Thanksgiving in the Present This week, we’re discovering reasons for genuine thanksgiving. Not a generic sense of gratitude such as secular Americans may briefly feel tomorrow, but a true lifestyle of praise and thanks to the God who is our Father. Nov 25, 2020

  Predictions for the Future and Three Reasons for Thanksgiving in the Present
• Cashing in on Psychedelics: Escaping Reality Is Never a Solution On November 3, Oregon became the first U. S. state to legalize “magic mushrooms” for therapeutic use, following the lead of a few cities like Denver, Oakland, and Ann Arbor. Almost immediately afterward, articles appeared... Nov 24, 2020

  Cashing in on Psychedelics: Escaping Reality Is Never a Solution
• An Ancient Story and the Transforming Power of Optimism: Three Reasons for Thanksgiving In writing on thanksgiving during a pandemic, my purpose is not to be naïve but to suggest that choosing an attitude of gratitude even in the darkest days is best for us. It honors the One who made us, loves us, and redeems us... Nov 24, 2020

  An Ancient Story and the Transforming Power of Optimism: Three Reasons for Thanksgiving
• Abandoning the Elderly in Belgium In Belgium, the residents of nursing and rest homes were, according to a new report, “abandoned” by government authorities as the coronavirus epidemic raged. Out of fear of overwhelming Belgian hospitals, only about half of... Nov 23, 2020

  Abandoning the Elderly in Belgium