Trump’s Deleted ‘great physician’ Post: Why It’s a Warning for the Church
When any political leader is portrayed in explicitly messianic terms, a line has been crossed
Opinion
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Fentanyl is killing our young people
But had I played around with fentanyl the same way I played around with these other drugs I would not be here to tell the story. Instead, I would have left behind a grieving family and never experienced the amazing life God had planned.
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Tim Keller is wrong about abortion
We should pray that Christian pastors and leaders like Tim Keller speak clearly and forcefully about these truths — the truth about what abortion is, and that saving unborn lives is worth the cost of upset members, uncomfortable conversations, and split congregations.
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Woe to those who call evil good
The cure for spiritual disease never changes: humility, repentance, brokenness, and desperation lead to spiritual health. Our cry must resemble Isaiah’s: “Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence” (Isaiah 64:1).
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Christian leaders and controversies: The case of Francis Collins
These are all ethical issues that have confronted Dr. Francis Collins as a man of science and of faith. The issues more recently included COVID mask and vaccine mandates. To many in the evangelical community, the pro-life appeals he made for the mandates have rung increasingly hollow, and his seeming inconsistencies have been bothersome.
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3 serious obstacles to personal revival
Surprisingly, it is not just the spiritually apathetic or spiritually slothful people who flee a deeper relationship with Jesus. The following are three types of spiritual impairments that keep people from enjoying communion with God in their lives.
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When Bill Maher and Joe Rogan make the pro-life case
Again, Rogan’s musing represents just one step in the right direction in the midst of his other statements, with which we strongly differ as pro-lifers. But his words do point to the fact that a strong majority of Americans want some limits on abortion.
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Abort Roe
Every human life, regardless of her or his perceived value, deserves to celebrate a birthday.
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Discovering your blind spots through divine intervention
How good are you at listening to advice? Do you hunger for wise counsel, or do you avoid constructive correction at any cost? Are you too proud to be corrected and critiqued?
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Social media is destroying mental health, and it’s far worse than we think
The old saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words may never hurt me,” has finally become outdated, because whoever coined it never predicted a constant barrage of hate 24 hours, 7 days a week.
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Who’s Forgiving Whom?
Kristel Clayville reframes the student loan forgiveness converstaion around reconciliation. Except she thinks that the proverbial tables should be flipped: the government should be asking essential workers for forgiveness.
