IntroductionThe word “bless” is a regular part of life in the South. Clerks conclude the transaction with “Have a blessed day.” Little old ladies conclude the gossip huddle with “Bless his heart.” Fam...  Read More

Nat Hentoff said that “Fiction is sometimes more real than fact … it can tell you more than facts.” What follows is a fictional conversation.Cherry: Cleo, why are you proposing that we let people who ...  Read More

Many of you are now in the midst of memorizing Psalms for our annual Psummer Psalms (thanks to Daron Drown for organizing this event every year). This is where you pick a Psalm, memorize it, and then ...  Read More

IntroductionHook-up culture is now a problem in the evangelical church, which has high rates of fornication. Men expect sex after two or three dates and too many women comply. Sexual confusion is inhe...  Read More

In Mark 6:7-13 Jesus sends the twelve disciples out on an authorized mission. The word used for “send” in Mark 6:7 is apostello, which is a cognate of the word apostle. So the disciples are on an offi...  Read More

In 556 B.C. King Nabonidus inherited the land between the Tigris and Euphrates. This was a constantly disputed territory and a challenger arose to rival the rule of Nabonidus. The challenger’s name wa...  Read More

The power of hypocrisy is that it proves something to be false. But maybe not the thing you think. Veganism isn’t proven false by a vegan who has three exception days a week. Her belief in veganism is...  Read More

IntroductionSo you are about to graduate High School and head off to college. Your college experience may be the first time you interact with the broader evangelical world. You’ve heard us talk at chu...  Read More

God made human beings in his image as people who require knowledge (Prov. 18:15). To argue otherwise, to argue that we don’t require knowledge, is to spit in the face of the doctrine that says that hu...  Read More

IntroductionSome faithful Christians refuse to read fiction. The reason cited is the same: If there is time to read, they’d rather read something true. Better to plow up a real field than a pretend on...  Read More

IntroductionIn 1952 the minister Norman Vincent Peale published his best-selling book, The Power of Positive Thinking. It sold 2.5 million copies from 1952 – 1956 and serves as one of the pillars of t...  Read More

Since the beginning of days, people have hankered to rank things. The caveman ranked the loincloths of their fellow cavers. Northern Europeans of ancient times debated the most esteemed Nordic poetry....  Read More