It wouldn't be too surprising to hear that Christians these days are going through an identity crisis. This crisis might not involve merely the question of who we are ourselves but also with whom we can identify anymore. The Christian landscape seems ever changing, to the point that people we thought we trusted yesterday turn out to be someone entirely different today. That respected leader lets us down, and we find out that we have no heroes left, after all. Some people'

Most of us will never know what really goes on behind the scenes during the week of Halloween. If you have ever felt more Satanic oppression during this time than at others, you are not alone. Perhaps your spirit feels a burden you cannot shake, a heaviness you cannot explain, a depression you cannot dismiss. What's really going on? My mother told of a time when she and my father experienced unusual Satanic oppression when they had a next door neighbor who was a practicin

Why does fall cause a lump in my throat, a bursting of my heart, a flaming nostalgia to awaken the past still slumbering in childhood dreams? A yearning grows like rising sun to float off into sapphire skies and velvet autumn air; to kick through paths of fallen leaves and find the secret stair to harvest’s maturing sun; to swing among the maples’ goldenrods and climb the mighty oak’s scarlet and persimmon arms waving into cornflower-blue skies. Leaves scratch sidewalks in

Like a candle on a hill you flickered In a gale of will; You smoked like flax Put out almost by slayers' pride— Agonized to shine But never cried—never Breathed a sigh of weariness Or pain but trimmed your blackened Wick and blazed again. Wind mocked the burning truth You beamed all night— And scoffed that righteousness Isn’t right—but you Smiled back—laughed, even, At the fire

My niece Autumn tagged me to write about Autumn! Q. If autumn isn't your favorite season, what is? And if autumn is your favorite...

Narrative Arc and the Biblical Worldview When Jesus likens the days before His return to the days of Noah, He shows that human history moves in a circle. And yet this circle is intriguingly different from the wheel of time found within the Eastern worldview. Rather than merely revolving in an eternal rotation of birth, death, and rebirth, human history in reality repeats itself in successively worsening degrees. Jesus makes this clear when He warns that it will be easier

Taken as a Whole Called the greatest sermon of all time, Jesus' Sermon on the Mount not only sets the tone of His entire earthly ministry but defines the very essence o f the Gospel. Like His seamless robe, which the Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus cast lots for rather than divide, Christ's sermon must be taken not as a collection of teachings but as a whole. As the New Testament fulfillment of the Old Testament's Ten Commandments, Jesus' sermon is morally binding upon

Introduction Without apology, I think it is fair to ask that a show about Jesus be produced from a uniquely Christian perspective. Viewers have a right to know the influences behind The Chosen , and they have a right to critique the show accordingly. If these influences are determined to be less than Christian, whether in the screenwriting or in the acting or even in the production, we have the right to ask why Jenkins is using them. And if Jenkins has a prejudice against

Thy truth, in time, will come to light, Like patterns kissed with dawn. Oh, wait, thou window of the soul, Behold the sufferer's sun! In crucibles of love, thy panes With colors new imbued Shall scintillate with courage And sparkle forth in truth. Oh, rest in darkness for awhile, Thy glass stained black for death-- A conqueror's fire shall soon burst forth And crown thy shame in health. For Time a third dimension br

Introduction: Jenkins Takes Aim at Statues and Stained Glass Windows Jenkins' frequently expressed intention to break stereotypes of Jesus as "statues" and "stained glass windows" triggers all those images of COVID-ridden 2020, when we watched what felt like half the nation march from coast to coast to protest George Floyd's horrific murder. Burnings, breaking of glass, looting, and the pulling down of our nation's most iconic statues filled the news night after night, w