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Month: August 2023
Fighting Anxiety – John Piper
How does the Lord help us conquer anxiety? In this episode of Light + Truth, that’s the question John Piper answers from Matthew 6:25–34. Watch Now Read More Desiring God
Living on Your Face
How many faces do you have? Atheist comedian Stephen Fry once said (quite ironically) that you are who you are when nobody’s watching. When social restraints are removed, when…
7 Bible Verses about Healing
JAMES 5:14–15“Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the…
What Is the Great Dechurching? – Michael Graham, Jim Davis
As a nation, we’re currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in the history of the United States. Tens of millions of formerly regular Christian worshipers nationwide have decided…
Eschatology Makes Sense of Time – Chris Watkin
Perhaps the most obvious implication of biblical eschatology (the study of the end, the final things) is the way it shapes a Christian understanding of time. But obvious though this…
Mercy on Maui: Hawaiian Churches Lament and Serve – Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
Three weeks after an inferno raged through the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, authorities are still working to identify dead bodies. They’re still looking for more than…
The Church, Singles, and Calling
Americans today are getting married later in life than their parents or grandparents. As of 2022, the average age at which Americans get married is 28 for women and 30…
Armed churchgoer arrested at LGBT-affirming Texas church after dead dog found on premises
A Unitarian Universalist church in North Texas says they don’t believe an incident involving an armed man who shot his dog on the church’s property was a hate crime. The…
Norma Normata
The Latin word credo means simply “I believe.” It represents the first word of the Apostles’ Creed. Throughout church history it has been necessary for the church to adopt and…