Why personal sacrifice remains essential for gospel growth today
As 21st century Western Christians, we may be tempted to airbrush out of our walk with God anything that smacks of difficulties or hardship. But this is not how the Gospel spreads.
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The wisest book in the Bible has a question for our culture war
Legislatures go to war over a locker room Families split at Thanksgiving over a bathroom door Meanwhile, almost no one is asking the one question with enough weight to actually end it A look at what
Does God Want You to Get Rich? Here's What the Bible Says
A reader asks if God wants them to get rich and the answer reveals a subtle danger hiding in plenty of well-meaning Christian financial advice
You can't sue a surrogate for refusing to kill your child
A contract is not a license When a surrogate refused to abort a baby diagnosed with a heart condition, it exposed a hard truth some promises are simply too immoral for courts to enforce no matter
Should Christian parents send their kids to Harvard?
Sean Duffy worries Harvard could corrupt his daughter s mind Richard Land has been there In this personal reflection, the longtime Southern Baptist leader traces his own path from a working-class
Eulogies Do Not Save the Living
Real solidarity with the Palestinian church asks us to choose between institutional comfort and the kind of justice the gospel actually demands, the disruptive kind, the kind that costs something — as the Church of England recently discovered.
Jesus' Famous Sermon Was a Failure by Today's Standards
By almost every modern measure of successful ministry, Jesus sermon would have been considered a disaster He had thousands of followers until he preached hard truth, and most of them left What does
Biting the forbidden fruit: A detransitioner's story of regret and faith
When my parents sought help for my childhood distress, they were given an ultimatum affirm my transition or prepare for a funeral Like thousands of families, we fell victim to a manipulative
I'm a foster mom. Here's what people get wrong about 'real' parenting.
Foster parents know from day one that their children may not stay But what if biological parents are living under the same illusion of permanence they ve just never had it tested
Dolly Parton Didn’t Need You to Love Her (and That’s Why Most of Us Did)
She knew some people would find her embarrassing and uncultured—but her self-respect was never the least bit shaken.
