“I don’t deserve to have a second chance really,” said Lucinda Wilson, an ordinary-looking woman — except for her white prison jumpsuit — with long, brown hair pulled behind her head. “I just want to try and do as much as I can to bring the Lord the glory he deserves because it’s not about me,”... Continue Reading

A large majority of young Americans now believe education and economic accomplishments are extremely important parts of adulthood, and more than half — 55% — believe marrying and having children is not very important. That mentality differs from the values of 40 years ago. In 1975, 8 in 10 people were married by the time they turned 30. Now,... Continue Reading

“Ahok is very positive. He says that everything is in God’s hands and that everything has a purpose,” said Lucille Talusan, CBN’s Indonesia correspondent. “Even if he is under trial for what is happening in his life, he believes that one day God is going to bring him back to his calling. The first thing... Continue Reading

The Presbytery has now sadly concluded that elements of Dr Campbell’s moral conduct were contrary to, and censurable by, the Word of God (Bible), and seriously inconsistent with that expected of a Christian minister….The Presbytery will continue to consider how to bring this sad episode to a conclusion and what we may learn from it.  ... Continue Reading

I’ve used British examples because I’m British, and it seems more polite to point out the errors in my own national worldview than in that of other nations. I could’ve pointed out how Darwin’s thinking was used by late 19th-century Americans to justify acts of genocide against Native Americans. I could’ve pointed out how Hitler... Continue Reading

As George Marsden asserts, Edwards was “profoundly influenced by Isaac Newton, probably the most important thinker of the era. Like many men of his time Edwards was determined to know everything and how it all fit together in God’s universe.” (62) At the bottom of such questions of gravity and solidity was God Himself, recreating... Continue Reading

Suffering people need to know they can be safe to struggle alongside other believers, and not have to pretend they are on a mountaintop perpetually. They can say: “This is hard, and right now I am barely getting by.” We need to get comfortable with that. David recalled “I had said in my alarm, ‘I am cut... Continue Reading

Like Plato, Augustine had little patience or sympathy for the sophists of his day. For the Christian preacher, words are tools and not trophies. “It is the nature of good minds to love truth in the form of words, not the words themselves. What use is a golden key, if it cannot unlock what we... Continue Reading

We are Christians first and ministers second, therefore growth in grace is more important than ministry. Burnout may be the consequence of resting in our own efforts rather than in Christ’s blessing on our efforts. Ministers have an influential role in modeling healthy life-work patterns.   I’ve got to know Dave Jenkins over recent years... Continue Reading

“Never allow yourself either to propose a scheme, or to suggest means for its accomplishment, which you would not be willing ultimately to see emblazoned in every gazette in the country. Depend upon it: artifice, concealment, and evasion, are, nowhere, ultimately profitable to any man: but in an ecclesiastical assembly, there is a hatefulness about... Continue Reading