When the world tells me things will never change, and it feels like God is all but silent, being anchored to the Word helps me realize that God has been working behind the scenes all along. During COV...
While there is nothing wrong with praying for happiness, what we really need to be praying for is for God to enrich our joy in Him. God desires our greatest growth and for us to conform to the image o...
You might want to give up on God. You might want to give up on life. But God's grace is available. Grab it and hold on tight. His grace never runs dry. It has no limits. Today, tomorrow, and forever, ...
In other words, your child can still choose to do the wrong thing in the face of severe punishment, but you, as the parent, must still choose to do the right thing. This is one of the hardest things f...
To demand that others call us by our desired pronouns because it makes us feel comfortable in our skin is choosing comfort over God.Comfort has always been an enticing proposition. Comfort is a sellin...
Jesus called the Spirit the Comforter, and sometimes the Holy Ghost. It is the presence of the Spirit that sanctifies and convicts Christians after they are saved. It is the Spirit who works in the li...
I have no business comparing myself to anyone, and neither do you. Trust me, you don't want to be like her. You want to be like Jesus.It's crazy how much a year can change a person. I know I'm preachi...
This is the third article in the Engaging Buddhism series, which explores different facets of Buddhism and how Christians can engage with and minister to Buddhists.Sydney is Australia's second most po...
Gratitude is all the rage these days.Since the mid-2000s, when the writings of positive psychologist Robert Emmons got the train rolling, a veritable industry has sprung up around the study of gratitu...
...as we learn to seek balance and follow God's plan for how we spend our time, we must give ourselves the freedom to fail and learn and try again. Springtime brings blooming flowers, longer days, and...
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here.Sometimes a perfectly good word loses its meaning so much that it ought to be set aside, at least temporarily. Calling someone a ...
The past several years have seen a sharp rise in violence against Asian Americans.In 2020, the FBI recorded a 73 percent increase in anti-Asian hate crimes. Over the next two years, the Stop AAPI Hate...
Victor Glover will pray his way to the moon.When the Artemis 2 takes off sometime late next year, four astronauts will strap into a gumdrop-shaped capsule atop a tower of rockets taller than the Statu...
When encountering roadblocks in life it's good to pray to God, and good to ask Him to come alongside you while you tackle the tough parts.Sometimes, life doesn't go our way. When I was a young child, ...
So how do we keep reading our Bible when we feel depressed? Here are some truths and tips to keep with you as you navigate life with depression.When the light goes out at night, I feel the sadness cre...
But at the end of every dark day, the night promises me the hope of a new morning. A better tomorrow. A chance to begin again. His grace is never-ending. His love never-failing. I have another confess...
Change requires laying down our pride, comfort, and all we've ever known to become someone we don't know, someone who lives in a future outside our control, and we're often far too scared to be so ful...