Does One Really Matter?
Repulsive. Dirty. Cast aside. Unwanted. Abandoned. All of these words described the orphaned girl in the picture. I wanted to turn away, but I couldn’t. I wanted to pretend she wasn’t there, and go back to ironing, cooking, anything to take my mind off the image glaring at me from my computer screen … but [...] Read More >
Tithing in Tough Economic Times
Well-known Christian authors/pastors, like Rick Warren and Francis Chan, are known to “reverse tithe”. Instead of tithing 10%, they tithe 90% of their income. This is possible because they earn large amounts of money from their books and other sources. Although the graciousness and commitment of these men should be commended (they are of course [...] Read More >
New Authority for a Marine
“Who am I to counsel and advise 600 men?” I asked myself. “And what really are my values?” I had never examined my beliefs before. But now that I had been promoted to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, I felt I had to. At Annapolis, I was put in charge of a battalion of [...] Read More >
Judge Gives Probation to Parents in Prayer-death Case
What role should prayer play in the medical care parents provide to their children? Recently two parents were found guilty of second-degree reckless homicide, a charge that carries up to 25 years in prison, after they prayed for their sick daughter instead of taking her to a doctor: The Central Wisconsin parents convicted in their daughter’s [...] Read More >
What makes you angry?
The Barna Group poll results, summarized below, can help us to gauge what seems to be the most important moral issues to many Christians in America. Barna asked people which issues they thought was a “major problem” facing the country: Abortion is the overwhelming choice of evangelicals as the nation’s top moral problem, according to a [...] Read More >
“Mars Hill Conversations” on Adoption
Right now in North America, there are tens of thousands of children available and waiting to be adopted. In today’s video, several professors at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Russel Moore, Randy Stinson, and David Prince, sit down and talk about their experiences adopting children, and how it’s affected both their lives and the lives of [...] Read More >
Have better faith conversations
Most subjects are fair game for discussion at work: weekend activities, family life, health, the economy, sports, politics … but talking about faith? Religion? Christianity? It likely depends on your particular work environment, but in many places, talking about faith is a taboo topic. One of the worst insults in modern Western culture is to be [...] Read More >
A Unique Medium for Ministry
Web evangelism gives believers opportunities to reach people with the Gospel right where they are, just as Jesus and Paul did. Read More >
An Old Testament Lesson on Contentment: Hannah
I’d been praying for a husband for a long time. In fact, I adapted Hannah’s request for a son in I Samuel 1:11 to my situation: “O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant [...] Read More >
The Ridiculousness of Forgiveness
In my perfect world, the criminal will be caught, publicly apologize with profuse crying and groveling, and then sent away to the Island of No-Return. Forgiveness? What a ridiculous idea! Read More >
Connecting Through Technology
Do you use technology to stay in touch with family and friends?
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