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Feeling marital distance can be like sharing a home with a stranger. An emotional gap in marriage is one of the leading causes of divorce 58% of divorced couples cite growing apart as a major facto...
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My worn Bible lay open before me. I had that look of pained reflection that often attends my guided prayer times. Hoping for fresh insight, I reread Psalm 33:16–17 slowly and prayerfully: “The king...
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Many of us learned about the Bible for the first time in Sunday school classes or youth group Bible studies. Perhaps in college we learned how to study it for ourselves through a campus ministry or...
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They have been quick to brand the new pope an ‘anti-Trump’ ‘total Marxist’. In return, he is already critiquing their worldviewIn the outer reaches of the Magasphere, it would be fair to say the ad...
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As we seek unity in our churches, there are three counterfeit forms of unity to watch out for. The first is coercive unity, in which people are pressured to conform outwardly while they secretly h...
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Most pro-life Christians are well versed in the scriptural, philosophical, and scientific arguments that support our belief that the fetus is a person. We can probably quote Psalm 139:15–16 and sev...
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Across the United States, we see a generational crisis in our churches. Older and younger Christians often don’t understand each other and their differing priorities and perspectives. It’s understa...
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When I was younger, a particular kind of 3D picture was popular: You could easily identify the picture at first glance, but if you stared at it long enough, another picture would appear as if magic...
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Paul commands us to set our minds on things above (Col. 3:1–4), and one reason for this instruction is that it’s so much easier not to. All sorts of diversions come more naturally. I don’t have to ...
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In 1969, John Stott had a counterintuitive idea. The fruit of this idea continues to hone and challenge my preaching all these years later. Each time someone purchased one of Stott’s books or paid...
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I was the kid who couldn’t wait for the first day of school. Newly sharpened pencils and crisp, clean notebook paper made me giddy. Each subject seemed like an invitation to discover. I was eager t...
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If you’ve wandered into certain back alleys of the internet, you’ve likely run across discussions of the “friend-enemy distinction.” Carl Schmitt, a German political theorist, introduced the phrase...
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Every time I teach a course on the Pentateuch, the topic of God’s law comes up. I typically ask, “When you hear the phrase ‘God’s law,’ does it leave you with a positive feeling, a negative feeling...
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Scammers’ souls | Peter Sullivan | ‘The enemy within’ | Strangers to whom? | State ownership of newspapersYears ago I decided to interrupt cold callers (Letters, 11 May) and say: “Just a minute. Le...
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In his days as a young monk, Martin Luther struggled to love God. His words looking back were, “Love God? I hated him!” This isn’t surprising, since all Luther had seen at that point was God’s seve...
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I don’t know where it came from, but now it seems to be everywhere. I hear it on podcasts and TV shows. I’ve seen it on T-shirts and social media graphics. A quick search for it on Amazon brings up...
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Melissa Kruger and Courtney Doctor talk with Trillia Newbell about the depth and richness of Romans 8. They explain how to understand Romans 8 in the context of the previous chapters, why there’s n...
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I opened my discipleship group’s text thread to find a friend sharing her struggles after a hard day. She’d had a poor review at work, was frustrated with potty training her son, and felt like she ...
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In the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, vivid frescoes depict the unified story of salvation, centered on the person and work of Jesus Christ. In a side chapel in that same building, the ...
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Zaki Cooper says bridge-building in our troubled world is a sacred task, and Christina Thomas says that, for once, demagogues and dictators have been sent offstageIt is encouraging to hear Pope Leo...
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On a long-form podcast with comedian Theo Von, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaked that his company is working on artificial intelligence (AI) companions. The average American has fewer than three frie...