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It is with a good dose of humility I wish to write a post on abortion. I desire for this […]

God thought of everything

God is the beautiful artist who, with just a few strokes of his hand, created a masterpiece.

Dear fellow millennials,  We could be the generation to change the world if we changed a few of our own […]

What is success? Many people spend their whole lives being “successful.”  But what does that really mean?  Is it the […]

If you’re a child of God, the only prerequisite to being forgiven of sin is your honest confession. The Bible […]

Want to know why? Because it’s the day where people compare themselves to others and standards are set by society […]

I grew up hearing the term “the missing link” a lot. My dad was a police detective for almost four […]

The world of dating is about as convoluted as you’d expect. Two messed-up sinners trying to figure out not only […]

January is human trafficking awareness month. Instead of submitting an overload of statistics or information, I’d simply like to bring […]

I think we’ve all experienced it before—that sense of timidity and insecurity, feeling like everyone can see it written all […]

There she sat alone by the water. Given to a man, by no choice of her own, only to be […]

In the late nineteenth century, newspaper companies pioneered a powerful marketing concept that still to this day dominates our media […]

This Christmas season, Netflix released a host of holiday movies. One of them, a satirical comedy, is called The First Temptation […]

The secret of Christianity is that God has given us himself. That’s the prize. And many Christians today have lost […]

Even though we daily battle against the grim things of this world, keep a soft heart, Christian. A calloused heart […]

Silent night, holy night!Son of God, love’s pure light;Radiant beams from thy holy faceWith the dawn of redeeming grace,Jesus, Lord, […]

            You may have seen a menorah, maybe heard a song about a dreidel, seen golden chocolate coins for sale in […]

What happens when society redefines family? Our teenagers are sorting through the wounds of a generation’s idea that family is whatever […]

Since the turning of the century there has been a 23% decrease in people who are extremely proud to be […]

It’s a heated environment these days. Politically. Racially. Religiously. Opinions abound.  Listening is lacking.  Fingers are pointed.  It’s an environment […]

What do you do when your child asks an honest (yet culturally unpopular!) question? One that, if answered biblically, will […]

In recent news, a fair number of celebrity conversions have been taking place in the public eye. Justin Bieber has […]

Here’s a riddle for you: What do we look at, on average, 63 times a day, for up to 4 […]

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with […]

Hard to believe it’s already November, and it doesn’t seem possible, but it’s the month that officially begins the holiday […]

(Originally posted February 2015) The not-so-popular news magazine, Newsweek, has started 2015 with cover article entitled “The Bible: So Misunderstood It’s […]

In Christ I can be anxious for nothing, prayerful in everything and thankful for anything. Why is that, you ask? […]

(Originally posted February 2015) Newsweek has started 2015 with a cover article entitled “The Bible: So Misunderstood It’s a Sin.” […]

If theism (God exists.) is a blue pair of glasses, atheism (There is no God.) is a red pair, and […]

(Originally published as an editorial in the Central Baptist College student newspaper Tower Times) More than a thousand years ago, […]

Disagreement usually sparks hatred. But when did disagreeing equate to hating? We, as a whole, have forgotten how to respectfully disagree. […]

“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” (Jesus in Matthew 24:35 NLT) The Christian Bible […]

Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide. ~ […]

It was probably there inside me just waiting to get out, something about myself I didn’t know was possible. When […]

Video games offer a world for your kids where they are the ones with power. The lure is easy to […]

Everyone likes a pat on the back or for someone to say, “Great Job!”  The reality is that pride is […]

One Sunday morning a small boy was sitting by his mother during the morning worship service. Like most small children, […]

Through my seminary studies, I recently read about the conversion of Augustine, one of the giants of Christian leadership and thought […]

Why should you study the Bible? It’s old. It’s long. There are a lot of weird names in it. And […]

FOMO (the fear of missing out) ain’t dead is it? Like, here I am age 28 and I still scroll […]

In some ways, discipling Gen Z (those born anywhere from 1999-2015) is no different from any other generation preceding it. […]

Divorce.  In American society, it has become the norm. In fact, the United States has the sixth highest divorce rate […]

Church planting is relational because the gospel is relational. When Jesus commissioned the disciples to “go and make disciples,” it […]

Divorce.  It’s an ugly word, isn’t it?  And yet in American society, it has become the norm. In fact, the […]

The Bible Confirms Our Struggle The author of Ecclesiastes says that life is “meaningless” almost forty times over the twelve […]

Is it possible to have a thriving relationship with God even in the middle of a culture gone crazy? Absolutely! And […]

Overcomer is a feel-good, faith-based movie that challenges you to think about your true identity.  In the aptly named Christian […]

by Brandon Cox Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been an inspiration to me for a number of years because […]

In Genesis chapter one, the Bible describes the creation of the world. As God paused to contemplate His work at […]