When Christians Forget They’re Christians on Facebook
Often when I speak publicly on the issues of homosexuality and the church, Christian family values and biblical sexual ethics, I feel like I am in a lose-lose situation. Doing so leaves me open to a host of stereotypes and positions me squarely against the cultural norms that prevail in our society today. And it...
Guy Hammond
Don’t Even Think About Discipleship Until You’re Doing This First
Discipleship. You’ve heard the word tossed around quite a bit lately and you’re probably wondering just what it takes to get involved in this kind of relationship. Should you ask your pastor for help? Is there a podcast you can listen to, a blog you can read for answers, or maybe a “Discipleship for Dummies”...
Joanne Kraft
Relearning How to Reach the Unreached
My family and I had the honor of serving the Black Tai people, a mountain tribe in NW Vietnam. Brave Pioneers had already been working on the translation of the Bible in the Black Tai language for 40 years and they finished up the translation the year we went. As we spent time with the...
James Bard
Randy Gariss
Frustrated by Life? It Could Be God’s Gift.
Stephen is senior pastor of Trinity Worship Tabernacle, a non-denominational church in Nakuru, Kenya. His story is full of examples of trials giving way to triumph. Here, Stephen reflects on his first semester as a student in the United States. It was January, amid an unforgiving midwestern winter. Looking out, it was all white–the ground,...
Stephen Muhota
When Holiness Is Attractive
Jesus warned in the last days there would be such an increase of wickedness that the world would resemble the total decadence of the days of Noah and the days of Lot. Christ-followers are instructed not to get sucked into the declining values but to live distinctively holy lives. “Since everything is going to be...
Bob Russell
God, Chaos, and the Nashville Tornado
Many of us awoke on Tuesday, March 3, to news that storms had killed numerous people in middle Tennessee. Among the devastation which hit four counties was a tornado that mowed over parts of Nashville. It’s frightening enough to wake to news like that. But let’s not forget that some Tennesseans were awakened in the...
Daniel McCoy
The Promise Keepers and Spiritual Warfare
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces...
David Roadcup
Why Rhett & Link’s Deconversion Feels So Right
Popular YouTubers Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal have publicly announced that they have left Christianity and landed in agnosticism. Their deconversions are especially noteworthy given how publicly the two had once been with their Christian faith (e.g., missionaries for CRU, featured in Phil Vischer’s What’s in the Bible?). It’s also noteworthy that Rhett and Link...
Daniel McCoy
Are You Finding Your Value in Victimhood?
Early last year, I sold my aquarium on Craigslist and ended up having an interaction with the buyer that has stuck with me ever since. This elderly man showed up to look at the aquarium. As we were making small talk, he mentioned that he’d lived in a small South American country for many years....
Luke Gray
Book Review: Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser
The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible by Michael S. Heiser is an excellent book that is a challenge to many of our presuppositions of what Scripture says about the unseen, spiritual world. In the first chapter of the book, Heiser points out a watershed moment in which his friend told him...
Jonathan Lichtenwalter
What Today’s Disciples Can Learn from the First Disciples
Being a successful Christian businesswoman isn’t something that just happens—there is a becoming involved. As I’m sure Mary Whelchel Lowman would agree. She shared her story in her book Extraordinary Women by Grace. It was a remarkable journey. By God’s grace, she has become a businesswoman who faithfully goes about making disciples—in her home, in...
Debbra Stephens
Lent & the Value of Subtraction
I’m writing this on the day before Ash Wednesday. When I was growing up, my church tradition never addressed the practice of Lent. In a movement that preaches “No creed, but Christ,” I grew up assuming that most ancient practices of the church were misguided and unnecessary. It is possible that adding such practices can...
Corey Scott
Uncertainty: Just What We Should Expect
Uncertainty isn’t the same as unfaithfulness. Far from it! You are going to face tough questions about your faith. And even though you can find solid evidence for your faith, you aren’t going to find certainty. But is that really a problem? Deuteronomy 29:29 tells us, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God,...
Brett Seybold
