While the previous Christian generation often engages the world by boycotting, condemning or separating, the Next Christians live “dangerously on the front edges of pain in the world” to offer comfort and restoration to the hurting. As a product of separatist Christianity, young evangelical leader Gabe Lyons says he is excited about the death of... Continue Reading

People are desperately looking for something new and fresh, but are ending up with something that in the end is really an old, failed idea from the past, albeit dressed in a new and appealing package. We live in a time of tremendous political, economic and cultural change. Everywhere we turn, the foundations of our... Continue Reading

Those with commissioned male and female deacons are living an alternative ecclesial lifestyle. I am going to suggest that rather than being a mere acceptable “alternative,” this practice is biblically aberrant; it cannot be supported from Scripture. What about Acts 6? In virtually every study surrounding deacons and their place within the New Testament Church,... Continue Reading

Much of what passes for Christian media today is really at odds with traditional, biblical perspectives. Again, though, it’s almost astonishing that large numbers of Christians seem unaware of it. Americans are too trusting. David Neff is editor-in-chief for Christianity Today. The magazine is still considered to be mainstream and representative of evangelicals. It was... Continue Reading

Robert Frost, America’s grand old man of poetry in the twentieth century, occasionally explored God and faith in his earlier poems. Then, entering his seventies after a decade of great personal loss—his wife’s death, the death of one of his daughters shortly after childbirth, and the suicide of another—Frost wrote two poetic dramas filled with... Continue Reading

Our point of debate is what the legitimate and most beneficial means are for accomplishing this. But it is sheer political fantasy that in Matthew 25 Jesus was mandating a government engineered transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor The “conversation” between the evangelical left and right is heating up as President Obama,... Continue Reading

“There is no other object of knowledge in the universe that exposes proud, man-exalting thinking like the cross does. Only humble, Christ-exalting thinking can survive in the presence of the cross.” – John Piper Near the conclusion of his Desiring God National Conference message entitled: “The Life of the Mind and the Love of God”,... Continue Reading

But, while not all of us are called to adopt, the Christian Scriptures tell us that all of us are called to care “widows and orphans in their distress” I will never forget seeing her pull the measuring tape out of her purse as she talked about the skull of her child. The woman, standing... Continue Reading

I have heard endless claims that there is no incompatibility between yoga and Christianity because it makes people feel better, it helps spirituality, it is a better way to know God, etc. Well, you never know what a day holds. Thursday morning, Yahoo put the Associated Press story about my article on yoga on its... Continue Reading

Where was God when Kelly was freezing to death on Mount Hood? For me, it is not whether I should ask such a question, but how I ask it… Once the primal anger settles to a low boil, we can—and, I would submit, should—ask the question. Midnight, it is said, is the portal between this... Continue Reading