Recently I started a contracting company with two friends. We fixed the roof of a church and the exterior wall of a house. The church paid promptly. But an elder from the church who owns the house refused to pay the agreed amount.

Those who know more tend to be more humble of their abilities because they are more aware of their own limitations.

When broken people come to churches, they are looking for people who have walked in their shoes. They are seeking a community that becomes a safe place.

As Protestant believers worked harder to distance themselves from Catholicism, I think they left behind some important ways of understanding God.

Faith questions are and should be asked as teens start to make faith their own.

Too many of TULIP’s terms are misleading and easily caricatured; they end up misrepresenting the Canons of Dort and giving a distorted impression of Reformed theology.

Even for those who suffer chronically, God gives, uplifts, and strengthens. Moreover, he uses this suffering to advance the kingdom in mysterious ways.

By now there’s a good chance you’ve heard of the horrific discovery at the home of the recently deceased abortion provider, Dr. Ulrich “George” Klopfer.

In prison he’d been tossed around like a rag doll, mistreated, abused. There’s no mercy for sex offenders in prison. He was terrified to return.

The fallen leaves swirling along the avenue remind me that although it is warm enough to sit outdoors with my coffee on this October afternoon, winter is just around the corner. Looking up, I notice one leaf on an otherwise bare tree.

Revision and reform are closely linked. We call ourselves the Reformed church as if it were past tense and complete. But we should be always reforming, allowing the Spirit to give us new vision and insight to re-vision what the Spirit says to us through Scripture.

엘리자베스는 다른 사람들은 모두 축복의 말들을 받았지만 자신은 제외되었음을 느꼈습니다. 다른 장애우들도 자신과 비슷한 경험이 있는지 궁금해졌습니다.

The idea that Fox News-watching religious Republican voters are a stand-in for all evangelicals is ludicrous.

My kid threw a fit when she saw the photos I had posted of her online. I think she’s overreacting, but what do you think?

We do not choose our beliefs based simply on how good or useful they are. Truthfulness is as important a criterion as goodness.

One of the quickest and easiest ways to fill a void in our lives is to buy something, and our mind convinces us for a moment that this will cure our ills.

When we lack unity, or at the very least, mutual respect, as people of faith we lose our saltiness, and our light grows dim. 

Everything Christians do for the Lord has significance not only for this life, but for the life to come. 

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I know what it’s like to be in a pastor’s family when called to a new church. This past year, I’ve gained new perspective going through a pastoral transition from the congregation’s side. 

In a culture drowning in conflict, there is simply nothing more beautiful, needful, or relevant than the reconciling power of the gospel and a people willing to live in light of it.

Whatever it looks like and however it is made, bread is a part of many celebrations and everyday meals all around the world.

The author of Genesis had no intention of giving us a 21st-century, scientifically precise account of how God created all things.