Where My Death Went

"The Gospel is that Christ has suffered the full wrath of God for my sin," J.D. Greear writes near the outset of the third chapter of the book Gospel. It's an affront to the sensibilities of our day and place to think that God has "wrath," much less that we deserve it. And yet the...

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For Shame

I used to not believe in a young earth. And I remember why. It wasn't scientific evidence to the contrary. No, I remember. I remember it well. I can recall walking through the Creation Museum here in the Cincinnati area because some Christian friends of my father took a few of us and being so...

What We Live For

Everyone is living for something. Computers do what you tell them. You punch in a command and the computer performs a task. Microwaves and automobiles and lawnmowers work the same way. They don't long for things, desire things, love things. But people do. They are designed that way. One of the fundamental teachings of the...

Seeing It How It Is

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end,...

60 Seconds On Being a Better Nation

A nation that routinely murders its children has lost all moral authority to speak powerfully on love or goodness. The world needs good men saying good things. It needs righteous kings who will declare righteousness. We starve on this planet for nations of goodness and justice and truth. I love my country, and I want...

He Is Sovereign Over Your Pain

A Christian can know that His God is sovereign over his pain. And that is a great comfort. It's also a source of hope and joy not only in spite of pain but through pain. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia,...

60 Seconds Asking American Repentance

There is a beauty in mothering, in giving of yourself so you can give to someone else. In spending your body and your heart to see someone else live and be well. Abortion is the act of turning that love inside out, so that the mother pays someone else to murder that life so she...

There Is a King to See

Then Herod secretly called the magi and determined from them the exact time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, 'Go and search carefully for the Child; and when you have found Him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him.' After hearing the king, they went...

4 Things for Husbands and Dads to Pray For

A husband and father is the head of his covenant family. And in this way his petitions and prayers before the Almighty are profoundly important for everyone in the family. Briefly, I offer four things he should pray for. HolinessA father should not be drunk. A husband should not have an affair. Christian men who...