Scripture offers a freeing perspective on our time. The responsibilities and expectations are not riddles to be solved with a better app. God presents time as a stewardship to be shepherded, one that reveals what we actually believe about him, ourselves, and the Kingdom we serve.
G3 Ministries is no longer in operation. Here are two lessons I have drawn from its demise: a founder’s weaknesses go deep, and right action is not always sufficient action.
Your social media feed doesn’t tell the whole story / Meet the first embryo ever adopted / The sports gambling epidemic is getting worse / You are not your trials / Why Aslan is male / We know what kind of society we are: we’re just haggling over the price / Kindle deals
Works & Wonders: New music, fall migration, the perfect photo, Abide with Me at a royal funeral, underground aqueducts.
Apple’s new parental controls for your kid’s iPhone / A theology of music / Canada’s MAiD regime: how we became a world leader in assisted death / Are evangelical worship songs driving young men to Eastern Orthodoxy? / An open letter to Greta Gerwig / The future of woke / and more.
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I have had the privilege of traveling across the world to visit local churches located on each of earth’s inhabited continents. I have been able to meet with pastors who minister in fast-paced world cities and in slow-paced rural villages. I have been able to spend time with pastors who are at the cutting edge…
You must go on. You can’t go on. You will go on. / Am I good enough? / Pause AI for humanity’s sake / Where is God when sleep won’t come? / The Beholding Method / A pastor’s wife’s rules for marriage. / The Funnies / and more.
Rosaria Butterfield on Christian women and porn / Ministry embellishment / Why Gen Z is lonely and what to do about it / How should I deal with my anger? / Why we said ‘no’ to IVF and ‘yes’ to embryo adoption / Are you a contentious wife?
I recently saw a photo that alarmed me. Several men were participating in a panel discussion at a major conference, and I realized that almost all of them had either died or been disqualified from leadership—two very different ways for a ministry to come to an end.
10 tech protection strategies for your kids and their friends / Why Protestants are drawn to Catholicism and Orthodoxy / What if AI devastates the world? / A husband’s call after miscarriage / Live outside of the Christian bubble / Is predestination fair? / New movie trailers.
Emotional affairs: am I in one? How do I get out? / Who’s ruling your home? / You think you’re willing to die for Christ, but will you work in the nursery for him? / Gluttony in the age of GLP-1s / Invite God into your anxieties / Vipers in diapers? / Book sale.
“God saves us just as we are, but he is not content for us to remain just as we are. No—God’s great purpose for us, having saved us, is to conform us into the image of Christ (Romans 8:28-29).”
Every church needs an abuse prevention policy. Here’s what a good one accomplishes, who should oversee it, and some helpful resources for drafting your own.
The kind of mom I’ve become / Young Christians, you need older Christians in your life! / 6 observations about ‘online’ church / An age of mechanical providence / God’s people don’t become angels at death / Why women are celebrating Lindsay Clancy / Kindle deals / and more.
Works & Wonders: Wonderful Paradoxes, Stone Wall Trees, Spiral Embryos, Saved by Grace, Play the 101, Just as He Said.
It’s 10 p.m., and your kids want to know where you are / The dark side of mindfulness / Planet of bots / How to love your local public school / The beautiful complexity of the human eye / Hard cases: no time to talk / Reader recommendations.
This week, the blog and this giveaway are sponsored by Harvest House Publishers. Dear Millie, You are cordially invited to The God Party.Love, F, S, & HS Who sent this strange invitation and what does it mean? Millie has no idea—that is, until her fiendishly funny friends, the REAL BAD GUYS, shed some light on the…
A review of Alistair Begg’s We Will Be Changed, an exposition of the fruit of the Spirit—essential character that is produced in us but not by us.
Pastors who prey on the flock / On (not) making very important Christian people / 5 helpful reminders for praying moms / Conspiracy theories are simple / The faithful friendship a marriage needs / A catechism on technology / Book and Kindle deals.
I wasn’t outside of God’s will. I was tired. / The NFL quarterbacks who found God in defeat / How to raise a son who is boring and unattractive to women / How do we know when to shut down a church? / Headship and submission when husbands and wives disagree / Is church membership…
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