Again this year we are featuring a summary of the top 50 stories.  We are breaking the list into 5 parts, 10 a day; starting from the bottom and going up with 20 through 11 Number 20 When to Leave Your Denomination? Should you leave your church if it’s forsaking biblical orthodoxy? Written by Mark... Continue Reading

A 27-year-old tennis instructor attending the classes also showed some skepticism. While he expressed interest in the spiritual development the course offers, one crucial detail stands in the way of his religious elevation.  “I’m not going to become a prophet,” he said. “I don’t think it pays very well.”   Instead of long beards and... Continue Reading

Watch the US government’s reaction to Hobby Lobby very closely. It would not be surprising to me if the fines against Hobby Lobby were increased into the millions and millions of dollars. It would also not be suprising to me that if Hobby Lobby continues its defiance of Obamacare in the years to come, the... Continue Reading

If history is a guide, the military’s handling of its recent religious challenges may put the rest of us to shame. Although the military has lagged behind in its response to some social concerns, the reverse has been true with others. In the second half of the 20th century, the military integrated more fully and... Continue Reading

Churches are also reminded that they are lamp stands. Each church has a light bearing function. We are called to faithfully bear witness to the eternal gospel to the end. God uses our witness to gather a people for himself from every tribe, language, people and nation   Reading the Christmas story is never enough.... Continue Reading

Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God’s help, I do humbly entreat him by his grace to enable me to keep these resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to his will, for Christ’s sake. –J. Edwards   When I was nineteen years old, I joined the staff of a large... Continue Reading

Tim Tebow and Jeremy Lin became overnight sensations as much for their faith as for their athletic prowess. Miguel Cabrera won the Triple Crown in baseball and Calvin Johnson collected more receiving yards than anyone in NFL history.   Looking back on an entire year of sports feels like riding in a car through the... Continue Reading

Again this year we are featuring a summary of the top 50 stories.  We are breaking the list into 5 parts, 10 a day; starting from the bottom and going up with 30 through 21     Number 30 At the PCA General Assembly: Overtures Committee report A surprise (to many) vote on the subject... Continue Reading

Religion, for college students, is not necessarily the old-fashioned ‘organized’ religion handed down to them, but rather something that many of them would call spirituality rather than religion. Douglas and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, authors of No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education, on how higher education found faith.   During the last four years, we crisscrossed... Continue Reading

One of the principles I learn from the Old Testament is this: the whole person is to be engaged in the experience of worship. Certainly, the minds, hearts, and souls of the worshipers are to be engaged, but when we come to worship on Sunday morning, we do not come as disembodied minds, hearts, or... Continue Reading