Opinion

• Why Did Jesus' Life and Death Have to Happen the Way it Did? Christmas proves that the creator and ruler of the universe (Colossians 1:16) is aptly called “Immanuel,” a name which means “God with us” (Matthew 1:23). If you need forgiveness, you can go to your crucified Savior. If you... Dec 17, 2021

  

  Why Did Jesus' Life and Death Have to Happen the Way it Did?
• Our Nations Crime Spike and the Need for Shalom Though violent crime per capita isn’t as bad as it was in the early 90s, at least twelve major U.S. cities broke annual homicide records this year, before the first week of December. Dec 16, 2021

  

  Our Nations Crime Spike and the Need for Shalom
• If Christians Want Culture to Value Biblical Morality, We Must Demonstrate its Liberating Power If you and I want our culture to value biblical morality, we must demonstrate personally the liberating power of biblical morality through a transforming, daily encounter with the person of Jesus. If we want more people to... Dec 16, 2021

  

  If Christians Want Culture to Value Biblical Morality, We Must Demonstrate its Liberating Power
• Opioid Deaths Pass a Grim Milestone The United States just passed a grim milestone: over 100,000 deaths from opioid overdoses in the past year. Most of these deaths were due to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is sometimes prescribed as a painkiller, and... Dec 15, 2021

  Opioid Deaths Pass a Grim Milestone
• Intelligent Design without God? For example, among the attempts to explain the Big Bang and account for our shockingly life-friendly cosmos were complicated ideas with fancy names such as vacuum fluctuation, cyclic contraction and expansion, the anthropic... Dec 15, 2021

  Intelligent Design without God?
• Why Does God Allow Innocent People to Suffer? One reason many struggle to make God their anchor in the storm is that they blame him for the storm. If he is all-knowing, all-loving, and all-powerful, why are tornadoes allowed to kill little girls clutching their dolls? Why... Dec 15, 2021

  Why Does God Allow Innocent People to Suffer?
• The French Resist Another Revolution … of Words Le Petit Robert, a popular dictionary of the French language, recently created a gender-neutral pronoun. The word is “iel,” a merging of the masculine pronoun “il” with the feminine pronoun “elle.” But, it isn’t sitting well... Dec 14, 2021

  The French Resist Another Revolution … of Words
• The Quest for Hope I was privileged to talk with Chris Brooks on his national radio show yesterday. We discussed the tornado outbreak and the recent high school shooting in Michigan that occurred not far from the church where he serves as pastor.... Dec 14, 2021

  The Quest for Hope
• Should Christian Missionaries Go to Dangerous Places? Why are we willing to risk life and limb so that others can hear about Jesus? We know that the lovingkindness of God is better than life. We know that our Savior took up his own cross to give his life in our place. We know that... Dec 13, 2021

  Should Christian Missionaries Go to Dangerous Places?
• Does God Use Our Tragedies for Good? Tragedy is a tragic fact of life. It is normal and natural for us to ask with the psalmist, “Why, O Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?” (Psalm 10:1). But the fact is, God does not hide... Dec 13, 2021

  Does God Use Our Tragedies for Good?