Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?
— Eric Metaxas
You can't fool children.
For many of us, this is very painful, pulling the lever for someone many think odious. But please consider this: A vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself. It is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election. Not to vote is to vote. God will not hold us guiltless.
Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'
A Christian worldview impacts every area of life. Including making your house a home.
Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.
We all have different strengths, different gifts.
No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!
Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.
Language is powerful. Words matter.
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.
I think most people have no idea about what religious freedom means.
Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives.
Donald Trump's rise is certainly a symptom of our fading virtue and faith, but ironically, he may well be our only hope for finding our way back to bolder expressions of them.
It's one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.
We're commanded by God to worship God with our mind.
Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.
The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing. Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces?
Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible.
It's a fact that if Hillary Clinton is elected, the country's chance to have a Supreme Court that values the Constitution - and the genuine liberty and self-government for which millions have died - is gone. Not for four years, or eight, but forever.
The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships.
Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important - especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself to us in the written words of Scripture. Think about it: when we read the Word, we place ourselves in the very presence of God.
Christians recognize that our planet was uniquely designed and fine-tuned to support life - and that's putting it mildly. Our place in the universe is nothing less than a miracle.
All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.
For at least a decade, Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, and stuck on social media. While that may not be entirely fair, they are notoriously liberal, overwhelmingly supporting left-leaning candidates and favoring policies like nationalized healthcare and same-sex 'marriage.'
If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong.
To be labeled a 'science-denier' in 2017 often just means you've upset someone who insists on teaching strict, Darwinian orthodoxy in schools or who advocates particular climate legislation or who supports ethically fraught research on embryos.
Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.
Everyone needs to stop and breathe and look at how redefining marriage will have a hugely chilling effect on religious liberty in America.
When you have a biblical idea of men's strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others.
Miracles seem to attest to the presence of a loving and compassionate God, one who wants to help us, who wants to speak to us and encourage us.
Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.
I have no doubt, if people are really seeking the big questions, it will lead them to the Lord.
In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.
Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a divide between the secular world and the faith world.
Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy.
Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.
Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.
There's already a world of evidence that life on Earth is unique and intelligently crafted.
God designed humans to live in community.
The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us, challenge us, or inspire anew as truly original work can.
Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.
There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy.
Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship.
To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.
No politician has ever used his faith to a greater result for all of humanity, and that is why, in his day, Wilberforce was a moral hero far more than a political one.
Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world.
Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.
Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.
