Winging It

The gospel, Paul declares, reveals the righteousness of God (Rom 1:17). We don’t often think of it that way. We tend to say, “It’s good news...

Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your ...

Many Christians resist the doctrine of election, not because Scripture is unclear, but because the doctrine confronts assumptions we bring t...

Not the Government for the People The Russian population of Crimea revolted against Ukraine years ago and installed a Russian authority. (T...

My wife and I have been traveling for the past several weeks. We've covered eight states and, during that time, heard about a whole bunc...

Paul begins his letter to the Romans with the claim that the gospel reveals the righteousness of God (Rom 1:17). He proceeds to explain how ...

The Mapmaker in Arizona: He was alright at maps, but it turned out he didn’t have a good sense of Yuma. The Archaeologist: He loved digging...

I’ve been interested lately in the connecting terms in Scripture that we tend to overlook. I wrote about it in Romans where we see this stri...

Last Saturday marked a special date for me. Of course, Saturday was News Weakly and Sunday was Father's Day, so I didn't get to thi...

Father’s Day looks different when both of your fathers—the one who raised you and the one who raised your wife—are gone. There are no phone ...

Augmented Reality New York City Mayor Mamdani is promising $15 million of taxpayers' money to pay for “hormone therapy, surgery and me...

Most believers do not come to the Bible as blank slates. We come carrying church phrases, coffee-mug theology, family sayings, sermon fragme...

We believe that God is Sovereign. Not just “sovereign” with a lowercase “s,” as in “mostly sovereign” or “humanly sovereign.” We’ve seen “so...

I grew up in a very traditional church environment where I was told it was a sin to swear and to “use God's name in vain” and the like. ...

Paul told the Roman church that he was not ashamed of the gospel. He had reason to be. It hadn’t exactly been a good thing for him. He had b...

A typical ’50s housewife stands at her sink, doing the morning dishes and looking out at the quiet street. Someone she doesn’t recognize is ...

In his epistle to the church as Ephesus, Paul refers to us this way: “by grace you have been saved.” Good. Got it. Past tense. (See also Rom...

Hope Against Hope Shares for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have climbed on hopes for an Iran-U.S. ceasefire to be signed by Sunday. Of co...

We like the love of God. You know, how God sent His Son to die for us and how He saves us and all that good stuff. But ... do we? I mean, fo...

After Jacob died, his sons became uneasy. They had severely mistreated Joseph and now Joseph was in charge. What would he do? So, they went ...

Christianity has often been misunderstood as standing against sex … of any sort. For many, they thought sex was a necessary evil. You did it...

James wrote about what he called “dead faith.” He said, “Faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. But someone may well say, ‘You...

Paul wrote the epistle of Romans to a group of people he wasn't fully familiar with. Paul had never visited the Roman church, though he ...

We are, so to speak, victims of circumstances. We measure our world by our circumstances and experiences, or, more precisely, by our percept...

A little different format this week. In the news, we see that Ebola is a problem. WHO and Africa CDC have declared it a public health emer...