What is the deal about all the singing in church? Can we talk about that for a moment? I don’t know about you, but I didn’t expect to be joining the local congregational choir when I signed up to follow Jesus. After attending church for some time, I was still confused. “I get the value…
Prayer
Death Is Temporary
Death has been swallowed up in victory. — 1 Corinthians 15:54 NIV Barring the return of Christ, you will have one final moment… a last gasp, a final pulse. Your lungs will empty, and your blood will still. What will you be after you die? Answers vary, but Christianity posits a startling idea: “Death has been…
Bible
Jesus: God with Us
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light…
Women
Loving Well in a Broken World: We All Fall Down
Job is perhaps the closest equivalent the ancient world had to a jet-setting, mansion-residing billionaire. Considered the “greatest of all the people of the east,” he had “7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female don keys, and very many servants” (Job 1:3). And if that weren’t enough to make him great,…
Men
Why Your Prayers Need to Be Dangerous
Hey, Craig, do you believe God still does miracles?” “Of course,” I said. “Good — because your prayers are so lame.” I tried to laugh with him, but my friend’s joke stung — mostly because he was right. We had just left a prayer service together, back when I started working in ministry. My buddy…
Family
Prayer and Marriage: Putting God First
On our wedding night, Nancy and I knelt by the side of the bed in our bridal suite and prayed. We didn’t know it then, but that night we began to lay a foundation of regular prayer together that has made an indescribable difference in our marriage. I wish I could tell you that I…
