Christian Thought
And I asked “why, why, why, oh God? Why did it have to be only my sister who was killed on the patrol that day?” -20-year-old female American soldier speaking at her twin sister’s funeral. It is the mystery that always seems to move further from our reach the more we reach out for an […]
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On election day we make serious choices. When we make serious choices we need to pray.
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Mel Lawrenz, 2012 To our leaders in government: We will perish in foolishness if we do not grow in wisdom. We elected you to office to do near-impossible tasks: to defend us in an unsafe world, to structure the basic services of an ordered society, to protect those who are vulnerable. We ask you to
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I have just returned from Hamburg, Germany, having spoken at a conference sponsored by the Evangelical Free Church of Germany and doing two days of workshops. The interactions were lively and engaged as we looked at faith in a postmodern world. Hamburg is a beautiful historic city in the north, the second largest port in
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A Call for Wisdom in Government Mel Lawrenz To our leaders in government: We will perish in foolishness if we do not grow in wisdom. We elected you to office to do near-impossible tasks: to defend us in an unsafe world, to structure the basic services of an ordered society, to protect those who are
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(photo: Bewilderment at the scene of the shooting.) The tragic murders that took place in the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, just a few miles from where I live, raises the question, just who are the Sikhs, who constitute the fifth-largest organized religion in the world? One interesting thing: the word “sikh” means “learner.” Same
David C. Cook is offering three of Francis Chan’s bestsellers as free eBooks today only. Erasing Hell, Forgotten God, and Crazy Love.
Yesterday the Internet and other media lit up with a story of a man quitting his job. His name is Greg Smith, a mid-level executive with the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs. It is what he put in his letter of resignation–carried as an op-ed piece in the New York Times–that grabbed the attention of
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“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched-this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared to us…. We write this to make our joy complete” (1 John 1). The Incarnation was not a
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In the 11th century, a wise Christian by the name of Anselm wrote a small book called Cur Deus Homo, Why God Became Man, and in it he offered a straightforward interpretation of salvation. Anselm said that only man should solve the problem of sin—but only God could. Who ought to suffer the consequences for
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If you are looking for a set of values that will give dignity to your life, that will connect you with the life of God, and that will work at a practical level, you need not look any further than these: reverence and respect. Reverence is what is supposed to happen in our hearts when
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I have always had mixed feelings about believers in the U.S. who complain constantly about the persecution they experience for their faith. That is because there is a history of persecution of Christians with real blood on the ground. Actual blood. Torture. Corpses. And this is the reality today. I know people who have been
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Sign up today for my weekly article “The Brook Letter,” and you can download a free E-booklet called “Living a God-Filled Life.” Excerpt: When I’m honest I admit that there are so many other competing desires, so many other internal voices, that this longing is easily compromised by my own self-centeredness and by the clamor
Sarah Hale, a magazine editor, petitioned for a national day of thanksgiving for fifteen years. In 1863 she got her wish in the Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863 made by President Abraham Lincoln. Here is the remarkable text, worth three minutes of our time to read, and a day to digest…
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Scot McKnight offers excerpts of two different angles on this. One by Richard Mouw, the other by Al Mohler.
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