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.
Christianity
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.
December’s Themes
Obviously, the Christian message about the Creator and Sovereign of the Universe sending part of himself to be human and experience his own creation is the hallmark of December.
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.”
The Road to Bethlehem
It was not a quiet holiday stroll, but a grueling, exhausting, emotionally heavy undertaking. And yet—they went. Not because it was convenient. Not because they understood everything. But because they trusted God more than their circumstances.
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?
What Does God Want? Not Your Dogma, Not Your Fluff, and Definitely Not Your Churchy Nonsense
Michael Heiser wrote What Does God Want? to bulldoze the religious clutter modern Christianity has wrapped around the gospel. Pastors padded it. Denominations complicated it. Church culture buried it.
Little House in the Big Woods
It was Christmas Eve. Pa arrived back at the cabin in the wagon. His buckboard was loaded with crates and supplies. It was snowing heavily in the Appalachians that night.
“Pride” Flag Flies (in Victory?) Over Now-purplish ex-Catholic Church in Small-town USA
It was a church I believe I might’ve attended one or twice during better days, and its sexual devolutionary transformation seemed quite scandalous. After all, the structure still looks like a church
Protecting Children in School
I pulled my two beautiful children out of public school and put them into a Catholic school. I wanted a refuge. I had faith that in a Catholic school, I would find virtue. What I found was pretense.
The Forgotten Genocide: When the World Looked Away from Christian Armenia
Author’s Note: Tradition holds that the Armenian Church was founded by two of Jesus’ apostles — Thaddeus (also known as Jude Thaddeus) and Bartholomew — who preached the Gospel in Armenia during the 1st century A.D. While Americans scroll, rage, and “fight” spiritual wars on social media, a real one ended quietly in the mountains …
’tis the Season
Even in the holiday and seasonal blues, God offers comfort, practical hope, and the steady promise of His unfailing presence.
Thankful in All Things
On your mark, get set, GO! But before the holiday frenzy gets cranked up, let’s pause to give thanks.
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 …
The Old Preacher
The Baptist church in Brewton was decked for a funeral. Men wore ties. Women wore dresses. The occasional elderly woman in a floral hat was seen wandering the premises. You don’t see many floral hats anymore.
We were burying the preacher today.