Sin Wants to be Your Friend
Tim Challies here with a reflection on a recent news story involving Jack Schaap, a prominent pastor who left his cell phone on the pulpit, only to have it found…
Read MoreA Prayer for the First Day of School
Father – There they go. This year, it’s one boy starting the second grade and one little girl starting kindergarten. And as I walk away from the school today, I…
Read MoreFeelings and Actions and Actions and Feelings
Gustave Flaubert, the French writer most famous for his first published work Madame Bovary once said, “One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one…
Read MoreGod is Not the God of Second Chances
Here’s how it goes. You know it by heart, just as I do: “I’m sorry, Father. I (insert sin here) again. Please forgive me. Have mercy on me, and give…
Read MoreThe Question of Identity Can Really Only Be Settled in a Moment of Crisis
(The following is excerpted from my book, Wednesdays Were Pretty Normal: A Boy, Cancer, and God) … this is what happens to most everyone who encounters an event like cancer…
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