Faith does not make the facts of life disappear. Faith puts them in a new light — and in a new proximity to the power of the Lord Jesus Christ to make ways of escape that did not exist before, to give hope in the midst of hopelessness, and to change our hearts, our enemies, and our futures.
We need a fruitful way to engage in public conversation about the issues of the day, Sauls says, and Jesus gave it to us.
What was missing, many believed, was a way to help people find their place in God’s redemptive story. “We wanted to demonstrate that lives are formed and re-formed by that narrative,” Herron said. “We wanted to see the Holy Spirit form a Gospel-centered conscience.”
If a man actually rose from the dead — then business, politics, education, law — these are now saturated with a glorious new purpose.
In his new book “enGendered: God’s Gift of Gender Difference in Relationship,” PCA pastor Sam Andreades has an ambitious, pastoral goal: to explain“the importance of gender in relationships.”
Today is Black Friday, a celebration of materialism, when shopping turns to sport, and Americans spend billions on merchandise nobody really needs.
According to Pearcey, Romans 1 is where Christians will find the tools they need to make sense of competing worldviews. And it’s there that we’ll be equipped to answer them intelligently, kindly, and persuasively.
We’re not to be swayed by fickle public opinion, or the latest fad, or by some deception that entices susceptible minds. These “prescriptions and doctrines of men,” Paul warns, lure us away from Christ and rob of us of life’s meaning.
We lost this one. We and many others made the case to our culture that traditional marriage is God’s good design, that this institution, embodied by a man and a woman joining together, leads to social flourishing. But our culture is not convinced. Much to our disappointment, it is now the law of the land to…
We long for our work to matter, and this yearning, along with our talents and gifts, is inborn, it comes from a place beyond ourselves.