Coming Untrue

According to Wikipedia, homiletics is “the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific art of public preaching”. For...

If we were looking at chapter 5 of Judges purely from a literary standpoint, we might call it largely redundant. While it contains a few i...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. In Islam, the word tawbah refers to the process o...

I was chatting with a young man yesterday. He considers himself a Christian. And maybe he is. I hope he is. But he’s certainly confuse...

God is sovereign, and may accomplish his purposes through whomever he chooses, often including men and women whose actions are not consist...

Faced with sufficient, ongoing sexual temptation, almost any man will succumb. Women will get the job done when nothing else works. That w...

“What does it mean that ‘ Satan entered into ’ Judas?” The quote we are concerned with comes from the upper room in John 13. Jesus respo...

When I was a youngster, it was common for the person setting up for the communion service to place a collection box, bag or plate side by ...

The fourth judge of Israel was a woman named Deborah. Yes, there was a female judge. Deborah was also a ‘prophetess’, a term the political...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Almost all in-groups, public or private, have some...

When John Milton, the famous 17th century poet and eventual author of the epic Paradise Lost realized in mid-life that he was going tota...

I read a chapter of the Old Testament every morning and a chapter of the New, and I’ve commented more than once on the weird “coincidences...

When I worked in print years ago, every shift started the same way. The lead would put a job into production by stacking all the marked-up...

“What does it mean that Jesus will return like a thief in the night?” Some Christians have a difficult time with the way the writers of ...

“There is nothing new under the sun ,” wrote the Preacher in Ecclesiastes a little over 3,000 years ago. People have been quoting him ever...

The gory doings in Judges continue this week (and probably the next two) with the story of Jael and Sisera. I will probably not dwell on J...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Rod Dreher says nobody meets their spouses at chur...

“Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh ?” A few years ago, I remember hearing about an evangelist who c...

Some people are naturally more reactive than others, but everybody has moments in which their words and actions are the product of pure em...

In the last few days, I’ve come across two different discussion threads online about the problem of Christian wives disrespecting their hu...