How can God ask Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, even as a test of obedience? Isn't that cruel and a case of child abuse?

Of course Black lives matter, and it is important in the church of Jesus, in the historical and present context of North America, to say so unequivocally.

God’s love for people who have been marginalized, discarded, and taken advantage of reverberates throughout the Bible.

Idolatry is indeed a threat—a temptation that Christians ought to resist through the Spirit’s leading.

When we are surveyed, we feel like a number about to be made into a statistic, and often we are.

What do we do when the pain and struggle are ongoing, and the happy ending doesn’t appear?

They did not choose to leave their land. They were forced to. Violence pushed them out, and a search for survival pulled them forward.

We will always fight over something unless we face and resolve our underlying issues. As far as I can tell, we have collectively ignored them.

I was a child of Dutch immigrants in the 1950s, and my adult children are now asking more details about their grandparents, of whom they all have wonderful impressions.

He pointed to a chair and told me he’d have my watch fixed in a couple minutes if I wanted to wait.

Today, when opinion is taken to be fact and fact taken as opinion, there seems to be a wide array of approaches as to how to deal with change.

With less sunlight to feed a tree, its leaves are not really needed any more and fall to the ground. But the leaves’ role does not end there.

I hope God’s people will spend more time applying godly wisdom to the issues of our day rather than labeling people.

There is a well-known sculpture, called The End of the Trail, that exemplifies this theme for Native Americans and Indigenous people.

Our Reformed tradition emphasizes a lot of head knowledge when it comes to growing in our faith.

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Human language—in all its variety and vitality—is a glorious reflection of our being made in the image of a God who created the world through his word, a God who is the Word.

As a university pastor, every funeral I lead is a tragedy. This student, staff member, or professor died too young.

The better we know someone, the more we might be able to form our prayers and our support around what will bless them.

I wasn’t only uncomfortable. I was blessed and challenged.

There was a secret message Jesus wanted to whisper into the hearts of the servants, in the back room where the jars were kept.

I recently met some friends from church for coffee. They used a cash app to pay and spoke about something called cryptocurrency. Should Christians be adopting these modern financial innovations?

I love giving advice. It’s one of my spiritual gifts, my love language, my default mode when someone has anything off-kilter in their life.