A Chilling New Front in the War on Religious Liberty— Denny Burk writes on an issue we should all be informed about. Why would the ACLU and gay rights groups remove their support for such a measure? Because the current form of the bill provides an exemption for religious employers. The ACLU et al. have …
Faith and Mental Illness— I field questions about depression and mental illness form a Christian perspective almost weekly. This is a helpful perspective from Michael Horton. The Morning I Heard the Voice of God— I was directed to this yesterday by Matt Rogers. I’m not sure how I’ve never seen this from Piper, but it …
Reverse engineering. It is the process of creating a device after observing an the original and ascertaining its technical specifications. Of course, it is not only a “thing” that can be reverse-engineered, this process can take place in behaviors and relationships as well. People who want to lose weight will often hang an old picture …
Our Unrealistic Views of Death, Through a Doctor’s Eyes— The farmers I take care of aren’t in any more of a hurry to die than my city-dwelling patients, but when death comes, they are familiar with it. They’ve seen it, smelled it, had it under their fingernails. A dying cow is not the same as a …
Reaching Men from the Pulpit— Today, I had the privilege of contributing to LifeWay’s Pastors Today blog. Here’s an excerpt, Do men perceive of you as a godly person or a godly man? Men follow men. Pastors, we must resist the temptation to sacrifice our masculinity for a gender-inclusive form of Christianity that appeals to women …
When We Best Learn the Bible— “But sound Bible study is rooted in a celebration of delayed gratification. Gaining Bible literacy requires allowing our study to have a cumulative effect — across weeks, months, years — so that the interrelation of one part of Scripture to another reveals itself slowly and gracefully, like a dust …
Several years ago, Brad Waggoner and his research team from LifeWay discovered the that the most important factor in determining a Christian’s spiritual maturity was daily Bible reading. This is not to say that other spiritual disciplines are not important, but it may point to the fact that other spiritual disciplines are built largely off of …
10 Things no one Ever Told me About Having a Daughter— There is an indescribable, kinetic ferocity that gets into your bones. I can remember walking white-knuckled through a crowded farmer’s market with baby girl in the stroller, unable to enjoy myself for the visions of violence I was prepared to mete out upon any member …
Do you Pervert the Grace of God?— Do you have a growing desire to “reject authority” (verse 8), and have you become suspicious of any perceived authority that would constrict your autonomy? If even archangels are happily under God’s authority (verse 9), how much more should we be as the redeemed? Are you eager to ascribe …
In the beginning God created all things. He created the material world and declared it to be good. God then created man and woman in His own image and declared them to be very good. Mankind was given a unique task among all of creation as God’s vice-regents. The crowning jewel of his creation, they …