This year my Summer Reading List is definitely testing the boundaries of summer. But I claim as justification the fact that the days are still warm an...
Those hardy readers looking for good books to read by the hearthside will discover several recent titles that combine good writing and captivating sub...
Where in the Bible is the Christmas story to be found? Understandably, the instinct of most Christians is to turn to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, ...
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This article is an excerpt from my book, The Prayer that Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord’s Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution. This post is th...
Not only does authentic worship begin with a true vision of the living God, but second, authentic worship leads to a confession of sin, both individual and corporate. We see it directly in this passage: "And the foundations of the thresholds trembled ...
Where shall we turn for instruction on how we ought to worship? There is only one place we can turn, and that is to the Word of God. The norm of our worship must be the Word of God--this Word that He has spoken. As we turn to this Word, we do see a p ...
Surveying the literature on worship currently being published, and listening to the conversations currently taking place among the churches, one can quickly discern that worship is now one of the most controversial issues in the local congregation. A ...
With amazing regularity, the national media take notice of the fact that, generally speaking, America's conservative churches are growing while the more liberal churches are losing members. If this is news, it is almost a half-century old by now. Wha ...
The Brave New World we now experience is filled with a myriad of moral dilemmas--and none demands more urgent attention than those related to human reproduction and the massive technological advances that are related to human fertility and babies. I ...
"In the twentieth century, for the first time, there was in the world a universal religion--the Christian religion. Christianity acclimated itself in every continent and in almost every country. In many areas that hold might be precarious, and its nu ...
The death of Yasser Arafat brings to a close one of the most tumultuous and tragic lives of our times. The man William Safire would label "the only lifelong terrorist to win a Nobel Peace Prize" was a man of contradictions and controversy from the ve ...
Nicholas D. Kristof, one of the most influential columnists for The New York Times, has written some truly wretched attacks upon evangelical Christianity and Christian conservatives. He appears absolutely puzzled by the fact that the vast majority of ...
By now, any observer with a modicum of moral insight is aware that marriage is an institution in crisis. Nevertheless, one of the most significant factors contributing to this crisis is often overlooked, and that one factor has led to the breakup of ...
Thus says the Lord: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who ...