Clark Fobes highlights the importance of understanding diversity and cultural context when reaching Gen Z with the gospel, noting how social media has influenced a shift from guilt-innocence to honor-shame…
Month: August 2024
Pastor, Are the Gaps in Your Faith Affecting Your Ministry? – Robert Cheong
Every pastor encounters challenges—gaps between God’s design and his own ministry reality. Our programs and discipleship efforts produce less fruit than we want (ministry gaps). Our people struggle to love…
Road Trip DL: Responding to Eric Conn and Andrew Torba
Mainly worked through the exchanges on line between myself and Eric Conn (Ogden) and Andrew Torba (GAB) on issues related to ethnicity, etc., though I started out looking at the…
Help Kids Value Nature in a Virtual World – Sara Osborne
Our family recently returned from a week in the Appalachian Mountains—climbing wooded trails and playing in rock-strewn rivers, soaking up summer sun and cooled by a lovely mountain breeze. I…
Corporations Are Backing Off of DEI
Businesses are backtracking on DEI, and consumers are to thank. Related Resources What Would You Say? Should We Try to Erase Economic Inequality? __________ For more resources to live like…
3 Things You Should Know about 1, 2, 3 John
The Bible is full of hidden gems. Many of those hidden gems are found in the smaller books in the Bible. Most Christians who take the reading of God’s Word…
Myth: Good Churches Don’t Stir Up Controversy
History has demonstrated there are a lot of smart people who believe many dumb things, especially when it comes to Christians, churches and cultural engagement. What’s motivating or perpetuating these…
Research with Mice May Explain How the Placebo Effect Works
The mice had to be placed in a painful situation in order to trigger a placebo effect. With humans, it is often just a matter of communicating orally. Source Read…
Brandon Lake, Elevation Worship’s Chris Brown reflect on No. 1 hit song ‘Praise!’
Christian singer Brandon Lake says his wife was the only person who thought his collaboration with Elevation Worship and Chandler Moore for the live recording of the song “Praise!” would…
Christian investors ask Costco, Walmart, major retailers not to sell abortion pill
Hundreds of Christian investors have signed onto letters sent to several of the largest retailers in the United States, urging them not to sell the chemical abortion drug mifepristone after…