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September 2024

September 16, 2024

Homesick for Heaven

Novelist John Updike tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy named David. When it’s time...

September 12, 2024

Outrage Is Not a Fruit of the Spirit

In today’s digital world—and especially in an election year—it’s heartbreaking to see God’s people become...

September 09, 2024

No One Is Ever Too Old to Be Used by God

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone,...

September 05, 2024

Eric Liddell, Margaret Holder, How God Rejoices to Rescue Us

f you didn’t read Wednesday’s blog about Olympian Eric Liddell, I encourage you to go back and...

September 02, 2024

One Hundred Years Later, Remembering Olympian Eric Liddell

This is the 100th anniversary of Eric Liddell winning the gold medal in the men’s 400m....

August 2024

August 29, 2024

Let the Love of God Be the Object of Your Contemplation

I’ve been studying the love of Christ, and my heart has been touched first by...

August 26, 2024

We Are Always Being Examined by God, the Audience of One

The only appraisal of your life that will ultimately matter is God’s. One of the...

August 22, 2024

Extending Grace to Others

Jesus told of a servant whose debt to his master was 10,000 talents, the equivalent...

August 21, 2024

Does God Exist? A Summary of Some Arguments

A great deal of evidence argues for God’s existence. In my book If God Is Good,...

August 15, 2024

How Can We Set Our Minds on Things Above?

Last fall, I visited Shepherd’s House Bible Church in Arizona and spoke at their college/young adult ministry, The...

August 12, 2024

Are We Careful to Speak Words of Grace When We Disagree?

Proverbs 6:16-19 says there are six things God hates, seven things detestable to the Lord. “Hands...

August 08, 2024

Letter to a Suffering Christian Tempted Towards Suicide

Following is a modified version of my letter to someone who was experiencing intense physical...

August 05, 2024

Have You Come to Know Jesus as Your Savior and Best Friend?

The battle for human souls pivots on the issue of Christ’s identity. He’s the watershed,...

August 01, 2024

When God Grants Happiness, He Reveals His Own Happiness

After the exiles had returned to Jerusalem and the wall had been rebuilt, Nehemiah told...

July 2024

July 29, 2024

Why Do We Believe So Many Lies about Heaven?

“An overwhelming majority of Americans continue to believe that there is life after death and...

July 25, 2024

Are the Ancient Biblical Manuscripts We Have Reliable?

There are vast numbers of biblical manuscript copies (non-originals) in existence today. Not surprisingly, given...

July 22, 2024

Oh, That We May Know Our God More Deeply

In her journal she kept during her cancer years, Nanci quoted Charles Spurgeon: Oh, that...

July 18, 2024

The Cost of Discipleship Pales in Comparison to Our Gain

And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, they...

July 15, 2024

What Does It Mean That Christ Ransomed Us?

Scripture says Christ gave “himself as a ransom for all people” (1 Timothy 2:6, NIV)....

July 11, 2024

What You Read Builds Who You Are

In God’s common grace, He shares insights even with those who don’t know or trust...

July 08, 2024

Refined by Fire, for God’s Good Purposes

God tells us that trials in which evil and suffering come upon us “have come...

July 04, 2024

Right Now, We See the Underside of Life’s Tapestry

Ever been to a football game at half time when the band forms words...

July 01, 2024

What If the Church Had a “Looking Forward Day”?

We received this thought-provoking letter from a reader named Richard Higby. As you read, consider...

June 2024

June 27, 2024

How Can Christians Better Respond to Mental Health Issues?

I’ve known a few people with perpetually sunny dispositions, but my own nature is reflective...

June 24, 2024

God’s Heart for the Elderly and Infirm

One of the many problems facing Western society is that we worship youth and make...

June 20, 2024

Bitter Ingredients, Good Outcome

Like many psalms, Psalm 71 contains both complaint and praise: Even when I am old...

June 17, 2024

Imagine Meeting in Heaven Those We’ve Forgotten

Have you ever wished you had a better memory to recall the people you’ve met...

June 13, 2024

How to Avoid Making an Idol of Your Marriage and Spouse

A thoughtful young man asked me: My wife and I were talking about idols, and...

June 10, 2024

Life Is Far from Certain, But Jesus Is

Corrie Ten Boom wrote, “When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark,...

June 06, 2024

God Has Continued to Use My Older Books, to My Surprise

I attempted my first novel, back in the 90s. I emphasize the word attempted because it really...

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