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  • Husbands, submit to your wives

    Husbands, submit to your wives

    Right out of the gate, I can hear some of you saying already: “Now hold on just a minute … the Bible says that a wife is supposed to submit to her husband and not the other way around! Is this some kind of woke, radical feminist thing I’m about to read?”

  • Jewish students harassed on campus is unacceptable

    Jewish students harassed on campus is unacceptable

    I want to challenge Christian groups on college campuses and campus ministers to organize a concerted effort to accompany their fellow Jewish students to class and by their presence help protect Jewish students from harassment and abuse. Multitudes of Christians across America should make it clear that to get to our Jewish citizens you will have to come through us first.

  • Why does God heal some people and not others?

    Why does God heal some people and not others?

    The answer to those questions is found in a story from the Gospel of John.

  • Yes, I’m really going to talk about erectile dysfunction

    Yes, I’m really going to talk about erectile dysfunction

    I finally reached exasperation one day when I was flipping the channels and hit four — let me say it again, FOUR — ED commercials in the span of about two minutes

  • Ghosts of the past: Hamas, Israel and justice

    Ghosts of the past: Hamas, Israel and justice

    The hideous Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians (including women, children, and infants) remind us that nothing in the Middle East happens in a vacuum and the ghosts of the past are always in the room with us.

  • Adoption: Thriving is better than dying

    Adoption: Thriving is better than dying

    No one is better off dead. We’re all better off loved.

  • The Lord is the best house cleaner

    The Lord is the best house cleaner

    No one knows how dark your heart is except you and no one knows how dark my heart is except me. The Bible says, “The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out. But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be” (Jeremiah 17:9-10, Message).

  • Evil is in the eye of the beholder

    Evil is in the eye of the beholder

    The current jaw-dropping atrocities being committed by Hamas have once again restarted the debate on evil and what it really is because, after all, “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” right? Actually, no.

  • The ‘Gordean Knot’ of moral proportionality in the Middle East (part 2)

    The ‘Gordean Knot’ of moral proportionality in the Middle East (part 2)

    Remember, Just War Theory was never intended to “justify” war. Instead, it tries to bring war under the sway of justice as understood by Christians and to ensure that war, when it does occur, is hedged about by limits that mitigate its barbarity. 

  • Israel and Gaza: This isn't just political but spiritual

    Israel and Gaza: This isn't just political but spiritual

    Some reported seeing smoke in the air from the windows of the airplane. We were shaken up but were allowed to take off on time (30 minutes after the bombing began).