After losing their motion to dismiss, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Walz decided to settle the case, meaning current and future emergency orders can no longer discriminate against churches on capacity limits.   For the first time since invoking emergency orders, Gov. Tim Walz lost a court battle challenging his emergency powers, specifically his orders... Continue Reading

Real sexual freedom is not when we give free rein to our sexual feelings, but when we follow Jesus on his path of wisdom. He created us for purposes so lofty only he can take us there. The seventh commandment alerts us to the sexual dimension of our true glory.   You shall not commit adultery (Exodus 20:14).... Continue Reading

Whether you emphasize range and broad sampling or deliberate practice and the head start, you’re best off when you resist the temptation to skate through life, giving yourself to neither strenuous practice in a field nor broad training and knowledge across disciplines.    A few weeks ago, I devoted a column to Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000 Rule,” a... Continue Reading

Ephesians invites us…to view salvation in terms of union rather than exchange. It is our one-flesh relationship with the Messiah that pulls us out of our sinfulness and deadness and lifts us to fresh life, both positionally and transformatively, in his death and resurrection.   I was a teenager when I experienced my first revelation... Continue Reading

The Teacher of Ecclesiastes reminds us that we need watch our steps when we come to God’s house. We do this by thinking carefully and humbly about the God we have come to meet.    Walk prudently when you go to the house of God; and draw near to hear rather than to give the... Continue Reading

While some recent books for children are clever and uplifting, too many are being written by ideologues with an ax to grind. This is deadly serious, as is the “woke” BLM curriculum being forced on children in government schools.    I was saddened last month upon hearing of the death of Norton Juster, most famous for... Continue Reading

First we wanted sex without marriage. The only way that was possible was to secure sex without babies.  Artificial contraception accomplished that. Then, along the way, we wanted to remove any stigma from wanting babies without marriage or wanting marriage without babies. Finally, with artificial reproductive technologies, we want babies without sex. The divorce is... Continue Reading

Every human is a gardener at heart, haunted by a longing for Eden, as Minari masterfully shows. Yet no earthly place we’ve settled in—or migrated from—will ever satisfy our desire for a better country, the “heavenly one” where God’s people will dwell forever with Christ (Heb. 11:16).   When I first saw the trailer for Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, I was... Continue Reading

In order for us to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world that Jesus has saved us to be (Matt 5:13-14), we need to stop mirroring back the world’s agenda, which our media soaks us in, and get practicing a different moral agenda.    For the last year, there’s a... Continue Reading

The human eye is a marvel of design.  It bears all the hallmarks of being intelligently designed with irreducible complexity, and defies any evolutionary interpretation.    Advancements in digital photography over the last several decades are truly amazing.  Cameras of high quality and resolution now come standard in most smartphones.  But there is an extremely versatile... Continue Reading