Dishonoring Christ In The Christmas Season
A Dallas area church is lying to its parishioners, and destroying the trust the Christian church needs to tend a flock.
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We Are Born to Hate Snakes: it’s encoded in our DNA
Humans didn’t wake up one day and decide, “You know what would be fun? Being irrationally creeped out by a legless tube of teeth and venom.” We were built this way.
Christmas Is the Story of Love
The story of Christmas is, at its heart, the story of God’s love. It is the story of a Creator who loved His people so deeply that He could not leave us lost and separated from Him.
Reaping What We’ve Ignored
I’m about to share some heartbreaking news — and we should all be in prayer about this, because it seems people in our country have become unbelievably cruel and unthinkably evil — to their own children.
Break Glass When You’ve Tried Everything Else and Nothing Works: Why Your Life Still Hurts And Sucks — And How to Start Over Without Losing Yourself
If you’ve tried everything else, try the one thing that isn’t just another version of you trying harder. Try grace. Try the One who actually knows you.
Eternity Has No Neutral Ground: Pick Your Master Before Time Runs Out
Someone once said life is short, but that’s not quite right. Life isn’t just short — it’s strategic. It’s the brief stage where humans decide whether they want to be restored imagers of God under Christ, or remain in rebellion with the powers who oppose Him.
Christmas as an Act of War; Part III
Every year, right on schedule, someone announces that Christmas is “really pagan,” that Christians stole December 25, and therefore the celebration is tainted. This is what happens when people learn one fact, ignore ten others, and then build a personality around it.
Christmas as an Act of War; Part II
If you want to understand Christmas like the New Testament does, you don’t start with December 25. You start with war; Just not the kind fought with steel and blood
Christmas as an Act of War; Part I
Christians don’t need gimmicks to believe the Bible—but we do need to stop reading it like modern people who assume the universe is silent. The biblical authors didn’t.
Hope In The Darkness
“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.” (Isaiah 9:2)
Gently, Humbly and Patiently
Because we’re so zealous for righteousness, truth, and the truth of God’s Word, we can sometimes become somewhat smug, under the banner of the old adage, “Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.”
A Peace of My Mind
My wife and I read aloud from our little Episcopal book, standing before our Advent candles, using solemn voices. The dogs were seated around our feet, trying to interpret our human words, listening closely for words like: “Ham.”
Carl Sagan: America’s Prophet of Darkness–Smug Influencer, and Still Wrong After All These Years, Part I
Carl Sagan wasn’t a prophet; he was the patron saint of smug. The original PBS influencer before social media existed. And like most influencers, he had one core belief: “I am smarter than 2,000 years of biblical wisdom.”
Socialism: A Violation of the 10th Commandment
Of the 10 things God told the Israelites not to do, which no-no is the most socially destructive? I’m not asking which sin is the evilest. I’m asking which sin has been the most demonstrably destructive to human attempts at civilization.
Count Your Blessings
In these times of trouble and tribulation, with all that’s happening in the world today, it’s easy to succumb to a spirit of hopelessness, despair, and grief — for the deceived, lost and perishing people around us, and yes, even for ourselves.
Is Political Engagement a Moral Imperative for the Faithful?
Most churches loath getting involved in politics – and not only because it jeopardizes their tax-exempt status. They understandably prefer to focus their efforts on matters of the soul rather than of the body.
No — The Crusades Were Not a Good Thing, and Modern Calls for Holy War Are Not Biblical or Constitutional
The real danger isn’t Christians defending their families or forming lawful militias. The danger is people confusing holy war rhetoric with biblical responsibility and constitutional order.
’tis the Season
Even in the holiday and seasonal blues, God offers comfort, practical hope, and the steady promise of His unfailing presence.
A Perspective on Our American Revolution (Part 1)
In 1775 after a revolutionary season of 12 years, one third of the Enlightenment Era, Dissident Protestant British people across four regional cultures (in 13 separate Colonies) took up arms to keep the Rights their ancestors won in the previous century.
A Mission In Your Own Backyard
As a Christian, do you feel it’s important for us to reach the lost and perishing with God’s Word and truth? Should we be working to put forth truth, rather than letting deception run rampant in the hearts of our nation’s people — young and old? Is that something you’re concerned about? And when you …