Opinion

• The Plight of Hong Kong and Its Christians Is there hope for Hong Kong? That’s the question the city’s citizens, including nearly 1 million Protestant and Catholic Christians, are being forced to ask daily.   Apr 28, 2022

  

  The Plight of Hong Kong and Its Christians
• Christians Must Be Discerning amid an Increasingly Secular Culture Evangelical Christians must be discerning of secular culture on a level unprecedented in American history. Apr 28, 2022

  

  Christians Must Be Discerning amid an Increasingly Secular Culture
• Want to Revive Our Churches and Communities? Focus on Our Kids Our kids are our future, so why not focus on changing the lives of those who will shape what our churches look like in the next generation? Why not invest in and empower them to become powerful, grounded witnesses and leaders... Apr 27, 2022

  

  Want to Revive Our Churches and Communities? Focus on Our Kids
• Taking Unpopular Stands in a Strange New World History shows that Christians had to oppose cultures before change took place. Of course, they had no way of knowing whether or not their actions would bring change. Telemachus did not live to see the redemptive... Apr 27, 2022

  Taking Unpopular Stands in a Strange New World
• Our Democracy Needs Christians to Act Like Christ Our democracy needs Christians to act like Christ, to demonstrate the “fruit” of his Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) and to declare and defend biblical truth in love (1 Peter 3:15-16; Ephesians 4:15). We must not allow the urgency... Apr 27, 2022

  Our Democracy Needs Christians to Act Like Christ
• 'Treatment-Resistant Depression' and the Loss of Meaning Behavior modification can treat symptoms, but not the underlying despair. In a Pew Research Center study released last November, only 15 percent of Americans mentioned faith as a “source of meaning”; outside of the U.S., the... Apr 26, 2022

  'Treatment-Resistant Depression' and the Loss of Meaning
• Practical Ways to Gain Victory over Our 'Besetting' Sins When you know you are being tempted, take these steps in this order: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). And remember that the cost of what you are being tempted to do... Apr 26, 2022

  Practical Ways to Gain Victory over Our 'Besetting' Sins
• Thunderous Applause over Murdering Children – Will it Happen Again? A.B. 2223 will make infanticide (the killing of born babies) legal in California. Will thunderous applause take place if AB2223 passes? Will pastors have the blood of the innocent on their hands (if they don’t already)? Time... Apr 25, 2022

  Thunderous Applause over Murdering Children – Will it Happen Again?
• Teen Sadness and the Crisis of Meaning From 2009-2021, the share of American high-school students who say they feel “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26 percent to 44 percent. [This] is the highest level of teenage sadness ever recorded.... Apr 25, 2022

  Teen Sadness and the Crisis of Meaning
• Only Jesus Can Give Us the Victory We Need I plan to focus tomorrow on practical ways to “concentrate” on God so fully that we find victory over “besetting” sins and thus become catalysts for spiritual renewal in our broken culture. For today, let’s close by choosing to... Apr 25, 2022

  Only Jesus Can Give Us the Victory We Need