While we can learn many things about our need to commit to a life of prayer from His example, there was something distinct about Jesus’ prayers—as is observed in the Garden of Gethsemane where He began His sufferings for our redemption.   No one has ever modelled what a praying life ought to look like... Continue Reading

Surely we are all against harm and want to listen to the victims? Surely people should not be free to harm other people? But if we take a deeper look and think about this for a moment, the problems become obvious. Does it not all depend on who the victims are? And who defines what... Continue Reading

Rights granted on the basis of pure emotion ultimately unravel. What emotion gives, it can also take away. But if our human dignity is given by God and that is recognized by our culture, then we have fundamental human rights that inform how we treat other people.   Several years ago, the mother of a... Continue Reading

The shame of a life past is oftentimes compounded by the failures of yesterday, and even the battle you still wage today. But the light of Christ is brighter still.   “Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame” (Genesis 2:25, CSB). That hasn’t been my experience. Healthy body image aside,... Continue Reading

I would suggest that it is arrogant and destructive at worst, uncharitable at best, for us to seek to definitively interpret the suffering of others.  Jesus points us to a completely different paradigm.    Back in the 1980’s when my wife and I were pursuing our Master’s degrees in music at Arizona State University, before... Continue Reading

Though many of us young men are so quick to publicly criticize pastors who are unwilling to defy the government, how many of us are unwilling to privately defy Satan? For instance, how many of us are unwilling to fight against porn?   Earlier this week, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Reforms announced James Coates was set... Continue Reading

To lose a loved one is to lose a piece of ourselves. I suppose this should be expected in marriage when the two become one flesh (Gen. 2:24). Loving deeply brings immeasurable joy but also an acute void when the cruel sword of death makes its cut.   Cold driving rain pelted my umbrella as... Continue Reading

If we continue fighting back—for pushing back is no longer enough—intelligently and firmly against the ideology of Critical Social Justice and the Woke movement it has spawned, we will find ourselves on the road to a post-Woke world, and it is not yet clear what that might look like.    The fight against the ideology... Continue Reading

The U.S. remains a religious nation, with more than seven in 10 affiliating with some type of organized religion. However, far fewer, now less than half, have a formal membership with a specific house of worship.    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for... Continue Reading

The loudest voices right now are exhorting us to “listen to the science.” And we should. But we would do well to listen also to the wisdom of our ancestors. For if science is what will get us out of the pandemic, it is the humanities that will help us flourish while we endure it.... Continue Reading