How could I, as a white American living in 2013 be so pompous as claim to know that Christianity is true for all cultures, ethnicities, languages, places and times? Recently I found myself struggling with this question. I feel guilty even thinking that I could be so prideful as to make that claim. At first … Continue reading
In an age where many teens are concerned with paltry things, I am inspired by young people like Zack Kopplin and his incredible courage to articulate and defend his worldview. His passionate advocacy and political/social engagement is unmatched in today’s culture by most adults, let alone teens. Yet, I want to be clear that Zack … Continue reading
Before we jump into this question, we need to define miracles. In some ways, childbirth, the sun rising, and various other events in nature are “miraculous” in one sense or another. However, for the sake of this discussion, we want to define miracles as “an interference with Nature by supernatural power” (C.S. Lewis, Miracles). Or, … Continue reading
For over a decade, I have been wrong about love. My journey began in college. No longer satisfied (and even disgusted) by the “feelings-based” definitions of love, I sought, read and processed with many friends trying to define the word love. Nothing has more characterized my preaching, teaching and ministry than what I believed to … Continue reading
“How far is too far?” When I served in youth ministry, inevitably I would get this question from a brave teenager wanting to know about sex before marriage. While I did not want to discourage a genuine desire on their part to know how to remain righteous in their physical relationships with the opposite sex, … Continue reading
The announcement of the discovery of proof for the existence of the Higgs boson or ‘God particle’ on July 4th, 2012 at CERN in Geneva Switzerland is on par with discovering that the earth is not the center of the universe, the periodic table, and the discovery of electrons (which is why you can read … Continue reading
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