Does your walk with God need renewed energy and joy? Do you want to break free from the wintry spiritual blues? Do you need some fresh wind in your sails? You’re not alone. Lots of Christ followers are reporting a…

The gun is loaded and pointed. Right at the Bible. That’s what you get when you combine rampant moral relativism and widespread hostility toward objective truth. So those of us who believe the Bible better know why we believe what…

“Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death” (Matthew 26:59). The scene in Jerusalem was a palatial mansion. As the supreme ecclesiastical court, supposedly in search of…

I write this as a passionate foreign language major. With career ambitions in teaching or international law, I received my undergrad degree in Spanish from the University of Kentucky in 1984. I earned a 4.0 in my major, under the…

Still reflecting on all that I have seen here in D.C. surrounding the inauguration, I am rather quiet tonight. The climate in Washington is invigorating, in both a political and meteorological sense, but I am silently pondering the responsibility that…

The evangelical culture has dropped the ball. It’s my guess that no one intended to drop the ball, but we did. After the widespread failure of “purity culture” to deliver the healthy marriages and families that it promised – at…

I just don’t have enough faith. Let me be clear: I don’t have enough faith to believe that you and I evolved from nothing. In fact, I don’t believe that species-to-species evolutionists can answer my most fundamental question: If nothing…

We in affluent America rarely think of just “one thing” for Christmas, but maybe we should. The Apostle Paul expressed a powerful sentiment with these words (Philippians 3:13-14): “… one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward…

This photograph captures our 2010 Christmas. We were living in Southern California, and Josh had just turned 11. In the storehouse of my memory, it was a special year, as Eileen and I enjoyed that season of our son’s life…

When I was a kid in Christmas pajamas – fourth grade to be exact – I decided to spark things up a bit. We had a nice fire in our South Georgia fireplace, but to me things were getting a…