A Mind For God
When I stop to reflect on the beloved doctrines of the reformed and evangelical faith, I always find the doctrine of the Lordship of Christ among the most precious. Why? Simply put, it is the source of our salvation and the…
Tag Christian Living
How Long, O Lord?
The Welsh have not (generally) adopted that legacy of Platonism in post-Renaissance culture, commonly called “the stiff upper-lip.” The Welsh, you see, give voice to their complaints with reckless abandonment. Typical here is Wales’s most famous twentieth century poet and…
Flip-Flops in the House of God
In an article in the Chicago Tribune this week, Jodi Cohen and Maegan Carberry discussed the case of Kate Darmody, a winning member of the National Championship Women’s Lacrosse team from Northwestern University. She, along with her fellow players had…
Call Me a Natalist
People know they’re not supposed to stare, but sometimes they can’t help it. You see, it isn’t every day that people in our neighborhood see families with five children, and when they see us all walking down the street–or riding…
Surviving the Desert
“The most significant lesson that desert dwellers can learn . . . is to regard themselves not as exiles from some better place, but as people at home in an environment to which life can be adjusted.” When I was…
Overload
So how should we deal with the inescapable overload of life in the twenty-first century? Do you ever get overwhelmed by all the things you need to get done, and discouraged by all the things you probably won’t? Almost every…
Revolution
In his new book Revolution, George Barna makes the staggering claim that faith in America is in the midst of an “unprecedented reengineering.” This revolution is so important Barna unashamedly wants to convince his readers to join in. I believe…