When Pastors Elevate Charisma over Godliness, Churches Suffer
If the modern church continues elevating charisma above character, we should not be surprised when more scandals emerge in the years ahead
Opinion
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Worship: An adoration for something greater
Worship is a deep desire to put Jesus above everything else in your life. It’s essentially a prayer in song form. It’s not an online performance but a part of who God created us to be.
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TikTok is destroying our children
This spike of more than 4,000 percent, from roughly 3 percent of the population to the current 40 percent, did not happen in a vacuum. Instead, this is what takes place when a society loses its boundaries, casts off traditional biblical values, and inundates its young people with a constant flood of pro-LGBTQ messages and propaganda.
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Women should be appalled China is holding the Olympic torch
But control over women has been the most repressive. The hereditary culture of ancient China long relied on women to bear descendants with a traditional preference for having sons.
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Why we don’t want Europe-style free speech in America
In my experience of living in Europe for many years, I found the European value of free speech to be quite distinct from America’s.
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Ask Chuck: What to do about a potty-mouthed boss?
My female boss frequently laces her comments with profanity in the office. While it is never directed at me personally, it makes me cringe when I hear it. I have lost respect for her leadership and want to change jobs. Should I approach her or quietly find another place to work?
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3 weapons to win the war within
Yet, the difficulty is that when we are born again, the warfare begins in earnest. Flesh versus spirit. Darkness versus light. Enemy’s voice versus God’s voice.
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Calif. school board fights: An unexpected lesson on grace
We live in challenging times, and conflict is all around us. If we are not fighting over politics, it is over our children, the economy, or even the potential of a world war. Yet, for believers, we have a higher calling.
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The narrow path vs. the broad path
The choice to enter the narrow and constricted pathway is a command by Christ and should be adhered to strictly by anyone who desires to be counted among the few who shall find life.
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Why socialists betrayed the working class
After decades of failing to produce the utopia, socialists have betrayed their base — the working class — in an attempt to create a utopia with a different base.
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Broken for His purpose
It seems that, as Christians, we have these moments of broken desperation for the Lord, but they eventually pass. What begins as a yearning pursuit shifts to an afterthought as we move toward what we think is His plan.
