Abortion and infanticide are two stops on a single road, and the road has a downhill slope. Make no mistake. The current situation in which abortion practitioners are engaging in infanticide is the result of our desensitization by the decades long effort to devalue and destroy the lives of the preborn. Sin and death always... Continue Reading

Would you do yourself and the rest of us a favor? Give yourself a liturgical breadth assessment. If we all knew our breadth a little better, we could continue worshipping without chafing or complaint over “little things.” Recognizing this music or this way of praying or this ministry highlight moment may not be my ideal,... Continue Reading

Yet it was her values that mattered and matter so much today. The bedrock value that sustained Lady Thatcher was that inalienable rights came from God and not from government. She believed that Socialism was antithetical to freedom. Thatcher’s values fueled her vision for privatization, tax reduction, free markets, strengthening British military (defending freedom), and... Continue Reading

Ministry requires prayer, sweat and tears. Parenting does, too. As a busy ministry wife and mother, I understand the desire for efficiency and freedom that low-maintenance children would allow. Such offspring don’t exist. In reality, Christian parenting is messy and fraught with sacrifice. In addition, child maintenance is required at inconvenient times, such as when... Continue Reading

I think we don’t sing loud because we don’t really have the sacred affections that Edwards wrote so eloquently about nearly three centuries ago.  The only thing that will help our singing is if the Holy Spirit puts the song back in our hearts.  I long for that to happen.  I long for a church... Continue Reading

The problem young reformers seem to have is in regards to the fruit of that “Great Exchange” – the fruit of our lives, the good works we are to do, the life of holiness. It’s clear throughout God’s word that we are to love our neighbor, serve the poor, give generously, cloth the naked, etc.... Continue Reading

If profane language has a privileged place in the lexicon of contempt, then Christians have a unique mandate to avoid profanity. It’s not that abstaining from pejorative language outfits us with some holier-than-thou halo. It’s that we are called to live with a servant’s heart, affirming the dignity of every human and the sacredness of... Continue Reading

We are the stewards of truth and teaching. This is the essence of convictional leadership. Leaders are entrusted with truth, with deep beliefs and framing convictions. Those convictions must be taught and retaught, affirmed and reaffirmed, protected and cherished. Otherwise, everything we believe can be lost into confusion, corruption, and worse. As the stewards of... Continue Reading

They were not made to sit in a classroom for six hours per day at the age of 5. Unless preconditioned or drugged, they burst into tears and beg to go home. They need to be outside playing in tree houses and organizing their own baseball leagues and exploring the woods—even just being quiet by... Continue Reading

We seem to live in a country overrun by a great lot of negative naysayers when it comes to parenting. I remember hearing comments like that when I was a new (and overwhelmed!) mom. It seemed that many parents were suffering from a chronic case of disappointment and dissatisfaction called ”Just-Wait-itis,” characterized by the inflammation... Continue Reading