From Fear to Faith
Whenever we receive troubling or confusing news, it’s normal to feel unsettled, even to fear. But it’s what we do with those feelings that is vitally important. We can either turn to God or away from Him. Thankfully the Bible…
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The Lord is Our Fortress
Ask anyone if they need help and the answer is usually Yes, at least if they’re honest. People need help finding a job. They need help navigating a difficult relationship. Couples need help communicating in marriage. Parents need help raising…
Whom Shall I Fear?
Ask any child what they’re afraid of and you’ll likely hear answers such as snakes, the dark, falling off their bike, getting into trouble, not having any friends, being picked on, and bad grades. Ask any adult and you’ll probably…
A Christian View of Science: What is Science?
The Christian is tasked with being a citizen of Heaven while living in a broken world alongside sinful men and women within the context of a given culture or society. One aspect of that living that has seemed to transcend…
A Greater Blessing and a Greater Kingdom
Although believers have received the promise of an eternity with the triune God in the new heaven and the new earth, we’re often tempted to lose an eternal perspective, whether during days of mundane matters or terrible trials. You may…
Tsehay Tolessa – Through a Fiery Furnace
Tsehay Tolessa – Through a Fiery Furnace When, on July 28, 1979, the Lutheran pastor Gudina Tumsa was abducted at the end of a church service, the troubles for his wife were far from over.[1] Kidnapped at the same time,…
Promise: God Will Not Withhold Any Good Thing
A man loses his fortune in a fire. Shortly after, all four of his young children die in a tragic shipwreck. A young woman’s husband is brutally murdered. Her second husband dies of cancer, and she herself passes away after…
Psalm 128: The Lord Blesses Those Who Fear Him
As my wife and I anticipate our seventh covenant child (and third daughter) joining us early next year, I told our other children that it is their fault that we’re having another baby! Because they are all so amazing—so wonderful…
Denial of Sex Distinctions is a Symptom of Evolution
God reveals Himself not as “Mother,” but “Father,” and so fatherhood is foundational[1] as is maintaining Biblical gender designs during the annual Gay Pride Month this June. While prototypical man and woman were in many ways the same, they also…
Leadership & Integrity
Recently, Christians have agonized over accounts of false devotion to talented but corrupt church leaders. In outwardly successful churches and ministries, leaders have covered up sin, blamed victims, and blocked investigations to protect gifted but fatally flawed pastors and their…