When Violence Comes Home
Cindy’s voice shook uncontrollably as she explained over the phone that her husband Ron had just tracked her down with a loaded gun and threate...
When Tragedy Strikes: Finding Security and Hope in an Unsafe World
When tragedy strikes, safety evaporates. Security is undermined. Uncertainty abounds. And fear threatens to take over the human mind and heart. R...
When The Pain Won’t Go Away – Recovering From Abortion
Women feel compelled to choose abortion for a wide range of reasons, and they react to that choice in multiple ways. But the tragedy of abortion ...
When Anger Burns
Anger is one of our most powerful emotions. Its intensity can lead us to view anger negatively, as if it is an invasive parasite. In reality, how...
How Can I Have the Right Self-Esteem
Some believe self-esteem and the Bible don’t mix. Others are convinced there is no better place to find self-respect and self-acceptance. The t...
How Can We Trust A Bible That Tolerated Slavery?
Behind race relations in America lies an ugly historical fact. Some people still believe the Bible justifies slavery.
The Forgiveness of God
To be human is to second-guess ourselves. Even the most confident among us struggle with guilt and doubt. Many of us go through life hoping we’...
God’s Design for Sexuality
Our culture reinforces such an assumption. We are surrounded by those who know that they can make a living career out of by stirring up and fanni...
Open Hearts, Open Homes: The Call to Christian Hospitality
The way that I was welcomed when I was a stranger in Southeast Asia sparked in me a desire to extend the same kind of hospitality when I returned...
Die First, Then Comes the End
After everything evil in the world, it just felt good to feed my imagination with the picture of God slamming the wicked with hailstones. Vindica...
God Reigns: Living Out the Kingdom of God
Most of us are well aware that Jesus was a different kind of king. That helps us explain why he was crucified, and why the last question his disc...
Clinging to Hope
Some of the biggest tempests come within our own families and among our closest friends. We have little control over other people’s actions and...
Character Comes from the Story We Tell Ourselves
What did you want to be when you grew up? Depending on the stories that captured our young imaginations, that answer could range from princess or...
Catching Your Breath: Grieving the Loss of a Spouse
God’s breath, the ever-flowing life of His Spirit, will continue to course into you. You will inhale and exhale again—without always catching...
Broken-down Cars: Grieving with those Who Grieve
But when it comes to grief, the happy ending rarely comes so fast. Experiencing the death of a loved one is a lot like being stranded on the side...
Being Jesus Online: Biblical Wisdom for a Wired World
Much has changed but much has stayed the same. Communication is still difficult. Relationships still take work. And followers of Jesus still have...
Art Is
We see God’s art in every freshly painted sunrise and sunset. We observe it in the elaborate intricacy and functional elegance of a single inse...
Are You The One? – Keeping Faith When Life Doesn’t Go Our Way
A Torrent of Justice: Building Relationships of Love and Kindness
Sometimes we end up getting more than we bargained for. And for both the prophet and the recipients of the prophecy in the book of Amos, that pos...
A Message for All Time – Understanding the Bible
When you realize that the Bible isn’t primarily about rules but relationships, your Scripture reading will be transformed.
A Child’s Compassion
As a parent, the memories that stick with you aren’t only the happy ones—sometimes they’re the moments of complete failure. The instances w...
A Better Way to Live
If I had to pick one word for what God has been teaching me lately, I think it would be "freedom." It's a little word, one I think we tend to thi...
The Compassion of Jesus
Trying to capture a person’s heart in one word is difficult. We are complex beings and display many different emotions and responses to life.
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