“By what means should I, as a Christian traveller, communicate my personal identity and spiritual allegiance?” I could…do some airport-lounge preaching….The age-old device of carrying a Bible larger than a cabin bag is trickier in these days of electronic reading…The prominent wearing of crosses is not my thing, neither would I normally go down the... Continue Reading

Canada and Latin America, most recently served as YFCI Americas Area Director, where he led a multi-national virtual team, who ministered to 32 countries with more than 15,000 staff and volunteers. He was raised by Canadian missionary parents working in prison rehabilitation programs in South America.   ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Christian Newswire – Youth for Christ International... Continue Reading

Immediately I began to wonder, how can someone read the claims in my book alongside of the claims in Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling and say they are both wonderful? They say two completely different things about how God speaks to us and conveys Christ to us.   I recently heard of yet another field experiment... Continue Reading

There are many groups that claim to be churches that long ago repudiated the evangel, that is, the gospel. Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.   When we consider the predicament that the evangelical church of the twenty-first century faces in America, the first thing we need... Continue Reading

Rejection is a prominent theme throughout the Bible and it is God who is rejected by his people again and again. No one in the entire universe knows rejection quite like God. Many times God compares his people to wayward prostitutes who give themselves to strange lovers (Ezekiel 16:30-34). Despite their unfaithfulness, God promises “your... Continue Reading

“There were always wars in human history—new ones, generation after generation—because wars spring from the human heart itself,” Novak writes, citing St. Augustine. “Peace never lasts.” He eventually turned against “progressivism” because it “overrates human innocence and goodness and underrates human weakness and preference for getting things for free rather than as a result of... Continue Reading

The court said the law “effectively bans all medication abortions” because the FDA regulations are medically outdated.   With a clarified decision from the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court can now consider whether to hear arguments in a case it granted for this term, Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, concerning the regulation of... Continue Reading

What is the takeaway for publishers? “It’s counterintuitive, because you’d think success is good, but the problem is too much success,” Le Peau said. “Every product has a bell curve, and all bell curves have a downslope.”   The Message, published in 2002, is still the ninth best-selling Bible translation, according to the Evangelical Christian... Continue Reading

If the affair has gone on for a long period of time (several months) and the emotional/relational side has developed, it will be more challenging. It may take much longer to deal with the implications and consequences on the marriage. The longer someone is in an affair, the more deluded they are about needing the... Continue Reading

According to Duguid, we live in a Disney-deluded world in which we are taught to believe that we can be and do anything we please. But this make-believe fairy tale inevitably collides with reality. We are limited, weak and sinful people whose default mode it is to live for self.  Just like the Barbie doll,... Continue Reading