Opinion

• How You Can Help Repair Our Broken Political System Perhaps by focusing on local government and praying for our leaders, we can begin to close the ever-growing divide in our culture and politics. Jul 23, 2021

  

  How You Can Help Repair Our Broken Political System
• Confused Souls Find Rest in God's Image I have tremendous empathy for young people who live in confusion in a chaotic, messy culture. I believe that if I was young today being called “sir,” I might wonder if I was supposed to be a boy. I have empathy for these kinds... Jul 23, 2021

  

  Confused Souls Find Rest in God's Image
• The Importance of Trusting God's Promises without Presuming to Know His Plan A wise mentor once told me, “Stay faithful to the last word you heard from God but open to the next.” Henry Blackaby, author of Experiencing God, said, “For you to do the will of God, you must adjust your life to him, his... Jul 23, 2021

  

  The Importance of Trusting God's Promises without Presuming to Know His Plan
• My Response to Mackenzie Morgan Calling out Hillsong, Bethel, and Elevation Should churches use music from Bethel Music, Hillsong or Elevation Worship despite their home churches having questionable theology? Is using the music an endorsement of the music groups' home churches? To offer some clarity on... Jul 22, 2021

  My Response to Mackenzie Morgan Calling out Hillsong, Bethel, and Elevation
• The God Committee and Our Call to Play God Our culture often makes the mistake of asking if we can do something before asking if we should and then determining that if we can do something, that’s all the reason we need to know that we should do it. That is playing God... Jul 22, 2021

  The God Committee and Our Call to Play God
• How to Defend Christianity When Christians Fail Many in our secular culture caricature Christians as weak. Friedrich Nietzsche warned that faith in God would keep us from becoming the “overcomers” we could and should be. Karl Marx taught that religion is the “opiate” of the... Jul 22, 2021

  How to Defend Christianity When Christians Fail
• Should We Purchase Products from Companies That Have Different Beliefs Than Us? The Holy Spirit will guide us and give us an answer if we ask for wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge applied. When we know the situation of a company’s beliefs, we then apply that knowledge if we should support the business or not. Jul 21, 2021

  Should We Purchase Products from Companies That Have Different Beliefs Than Us?
• An Abortion Clinic, a Calling, and Glimpse of Redemption: A Testimony by Prison Fellowship CEO James Ackerman In a recent interview, James Ackerman, the CEO of Prison Fellowship Ministries, opened up about how God used him to fight for life following his own experience with an abortion. Jul 21, 2021

  An Abortion Clinic, a Calling, and Glimpse of Redemption: A Testimony by Prison Fellowship CEO James Ackerman
• The Importance of Trusting God If we are going to trust our lives and our eternities to the God of the Bible, how can we know that he keeps these promises? Comparing current Bibles to ancient manuscripts shows that the Bibles we have today are remarkably... Jul 21, 2021

  The Importance of Trusting God
• Would You Have Been Embarrassed in the Upper Room? Why would we fear encountering God in powerful and profound ways? To be stoic and stiff is fine for a graveyard but not for a dynamic worship service. I wonder if those who criticize charismatic moves of the spirit would be... Jul 20, 2021

  Would You Have Been Embarrassed in the Upper Room?