Before racial reconciliation can happen, says Jemar Tisby, American believers need to reckon honestly with the sins of the past. At the climax of the 1992 classic A Few Good Men, Colonel Nathan Jessup (Jack...
January 2019
January 2019
The answer is both. Today, there are 844 million people around the world without access to clean water; 2.5 billion do not use a toilet to manage their waste. And 3.4 billion people are unreached...
Who were the Samaritans? Why were they so despised by the Jews? Samaria Founded Before Samaria existed or any Samaritan ever walked the earth, the nation of Israel split into two separate nations…. [[ This...
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Bible is a Modern Culinary Manual, God is “First Foodie”: An Interview with Margaret Feinberg
Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. — Psalm 34:8 (NIV) Why did God create food lush in flavor and rich in nutrients? How is...
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Why treating the female body like property misses the gospel and fails the unborn. Modern feminism has spent the last century fighting to give women the freedom to have jurisdiction over their voting rights, their...
Three tips from my own experience as a church planting leader. Many frequently joke about the turnover rate in church planting leadership. It seems that whenever I’m at a conference or church event, someone new...
Christians remain one of the most persecuted religious groups in the world, experiencing imprisonment, loss of home and assets, rape, torture, beheadings, and other forms of murder because of their identification with Jesus Christ. Across...
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This is the forty-seventh lesson in author and pastor Mel Lawrenz’ How to Live the Bible series. If you know someone or a group who would like to follow along on this journey through Scripture,...
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China’s church raids drew headlines, but 26 countries—including India—treated Christians worse in 2018. Christian persecution has worsened in the most populous countries in the world, China and India, putting millions more believers at risk for...
What a failed church plant taught me about God’s purpose and provision. In 2015, my husband and I moved from rural Pennsylvania and left a church we loved to do something risky—plant a new church...
January 2019