Last week, our President finally said out loud what many people thought he believed all along: he supports the legalization of same sex marriage. The following is an excerpt from his interview with ABC News from May 16, 2012. This is something that, you know, we’ve talked about over the years and she, you know, she feels the same way, she feels the same way that I do. And that is that, in the end the values that I care …

It is often strange to find one of the most significant passages in all of the New Testament to be wrapped up in a confusing context. I memorized 2 Corinthians 5.17 years ago (“if anyone be in Christ, they are a new creation; the old has passed away and new has come.”) But the larger context of Paul’s words are a bit more challenging to understand. On some level, the entire passage begins back in the third chapter. Are we …

Have you ever read a book and thought that the author had stolen your thoughts?  When I read Mike Bechtle’s book Evangelism for the Rest of Us, I considered bringing legal charges against him for plagiarism because he put into words what I had been thinking for years: evangelism is an extrovert’s game, introverts need not apply. But Bechtle’s thesis is not that sinful introverts need to repent and become more like godly extroverts for the cause of the kingdom. …

For all of the nice and easy things that Jesus said, there were more than a few occasions when He nailed His disciples to the wall, and that nail reaches into my soul hundreds of years later. Consider the following. One day Jesus was approached by a man who wanted Jesus to tell his brother to divide the inheritance with him. The gospel writer did not give any other details about the situation. We don’t know if the brother was …