The most spiritual thing you can do this school year is to love the Lord your God with all your mind. You’re not working for a piece of paper. You’re getting an education the Lord can use to open doors for His glory, the rest of your days.
Brian Collins reviews Ed Welch’s Blame It on the Brain? and Alan Jacobs’ Original Sin: A Cultural History
There are some things you’ll never understand until you live them. Cross-cultural adjustment is one. When we moved to the Philippines a little less than …
In the last six months since Rooted Thinking began, reader response has been very positive—so positive, in fact, that the technical needs of the website have …
Principle 1: Whenever the offender genuinely confesses and asks forgiveness, I am obligated to grant it fully and freely. The second time the topic of …
Forster, Greg. The Contested Public Square: The Crisis of Christianity and Politics. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2008. Greg Forster’s The Contested Public Square is a readable, …
Which statement sounds more spiritual to you? A. “Don’t follow me. Just follow Jesus.” B. “Watch me, and do what I do.” Obviously, the first …
It’s early evening and you’re sitting down for dinner when the doorbell rings. Standing on your porch are two combed-over 19-year-olds brandishing short-sleeved, white dress shirts, poorly-knotted ties, and black rectangular name tags. Dinner’s getting cold, the kids are growing impatient, and now you get to deal with the Mormons!
When we casually absolve everyone of everything irrespective of their own attitude toward their sin, we make light of sin, cheapen the grace of forgiveness, and short-circuit what God wants to do inside them. Sin is ultimately against God not me, so forgiveness is bigger than me; that’s why I have to exercise it according to God’s rules.
If your Facebook feed looks like mine, you’re tired of ice bucket videos already. You’re probably also tired of articles telling you why ALS organizations …
