Make no mistake, whatever your posture towards it may be right now, wherever you are in relationship to the web, it is serious stuff.

During seasons of profound frustration, the pragmatism bug begins to seep into my heart. I scavenge the church-self-help books on Amazon or roam the web for the latest curriculum that will finally deliver its promised result to bring spiritual life. I look for the latest trends, methods, or man-made strategies to do what only God can do.

All church planting wives start as generalists. We are children’s ministry coordinators, counselors, graphic designers, web managers, worship leaders, hostesses, and the primary sounding board for the church planter. Multiply this work times years of church planting, and it can make for one exhausted woman. I know, because I was one.

We Christians of all backgrounds and proclivities can trap ourselves in webs of pride that threaten to kill our spirituality and love for the Lord.

These five boundaries promote an attitude of sexual purity and can keep us safely away from situations which could make it easier to commit sexual sin.

How do I respond when a profoundly effective method of preventing disease – vaccination – intersects with my moral opposition to abortion?

There is much good in young men rejecting passivity, taking responsibility, and seeking to better themselves. But the arteries of anger, victimhood, and aggressive machismo running through the new masculinity movement do not bode well.

There is a certain quality Christians should strive for as we represent God to the world.

I took my first vocational ministry position the summer I graduated high school (1994), becoming the youth minister for Zion Chinese Baptist Church. (You read that right.) In the twenty years since, I've heard a lot of good words on ministry and ministry life, and while a lot has been good, a few choice bits […]

Giving attention to the “shadow” of the Father helps us understand what it means to confess, as the Church does at the opening of the Nicene Creed, “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty.”