On April 21, 2011, David Brooks wrote an op-ed piece for The New York Times entitled, “Creed or Chaos”. His reflections come from having seen the Broadway production of “The Book of Mormon”. Brooks goes on to disagree with the premise of the play, then details some of the benefits that attend serious theological thinking. [...]

Everyone has a sense of identity, of who we are as individuals. Identity is something that is constructed over time through our varied life experiences. It is both a conscious and subconscious activity as we observe the world around us and our relationship to it. This identity construction is an ongoing activity, and you cannot [...]

This past week I helped one of my son’s do a research project on Hinduism. We were looking at several different sources for information, and one of them we came across said something like this: unlike Christianity, Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life. Needless to say, that became another teaching moment [...]

There is a balance in Christian Scripture: that on the one hand, the Bible speaks of God’s Fatherly displeasure when His children disobey,  and on the other hand, there is God’s wrath that is directed toward those that disobey Him who are not His children. Christians need to keep those two things separate. While the [...]

On the recommendation of a trusted friend, I recently picked up a copy of Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christians Faithfulness and Homosexuality. My interest in the book stems from the many meetings I have in my office with men and women who struggle with gender-related issues, along with the fact that gender brokenness is [...]

What might it have looked like if Joseph and Mary had Facebook accounts back in the first century? Before casting judgment on the idea, take a look at this creative video that covers elements of Luke 1 & 2: May you and yours have a blessed, Christ-centered Christmas!

Here is a hard reality: you cannot escape suffering. You can try to run from or buy it off as long as you can, but it’s coming. You just don’t know when and in what form. That much you cannot control. But what you can do something about is your response to it. In reflecting [...]

To me, the world of counseling and metaphysics (working to clarify the ideas by which people understand their world, including existence, personhood, space, time, causality and possibility) overlap. A good Christian counselor does this by applying the Gospel of Christ to everything. The video discussion below concerns C.S. Lewis (and some J.R.R. Tolkien) that I found [...]

The quote below from Ed Welch offers wise advice to those of us who are interested in helping others. Don’t be mindful of just what you say, but also of how much you say to those in need. On the receiving end of well-meaning people, I’ve had others endeavor to speak into my life by [...]

My friend Andy Naselli has posted a quote from John Newton that powerfully and succinctly captures the Christian’s heart attitude toward growth in personal holiness: Is that how you think of yourself? Amid the tension of those statements (between what you are not, and the way God sees you), which truth statement do you struggle [...]