By Allen Rea Is the President in Charge? Tragedy and disappointment can reveal how Biblically grounded we are. We must both think Biblically and live Biblically. Many people were disappointed when President Trump was not reelected. They prayed and voted and prayed some more. Still, by the time you read this, Biden will be President

By Dix Winston Have you seen the Discover Card “No” commercial? It features Alicia Silverstone, Jack Black, John Candy, Mike Myers, and Matthew Perry screaming “No!” It promotes the Discover Card having no annual fee. Why is it such a successful commercial? Could it be in today’s culture the word no is rarely heard, especially

By Peter Darvoz Hating People Whom God Loves The only good Muslim is a dead one!” I was talking to a friend I met in college. Now, more than a decade later, he had become a successful businessman and was active in the local government of a thriving east Texas city. I was shocked by

By Shawn Willson The Cost of Cheap Grace: Reclaiming the Value of Discipleship. By Bill Hull and Brandon Cook. Colorado Springs, CO:Navpress, 2019. 256 pp. Paper, $17.99. I’ve read a lot of books on discipleship, and The Cost of Cheap Grace: Reclaiming the Value of Discipleship, by Bill Hull and Brandon Cook, was one that

By Summer Stevens I love to garden. At least, I love the idea of gardening. I love it when the long-awaited Baker Creek Seed catalog arrives in the mail, and I settle down on a cozy chair, dog-earing pages for exotic carrots and cauliflower that looks like broccoli. When it’s gray and dreary in the

By Marcia Hornok When our children were young, we had fun singing “I Wonder How it Felt,” a song that imagines what Jonah, Paul, David, Daniel, and Miriam might have experienced before God rescued them.1 As a spoof, I made up words for less-comfortable Bible events: I wonder how it felt to call your lying

By Cody Wallace Dallas Willard on Discipleship Dallas Willard wrote a section on “Discipleship” for the Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology. In it, he gives a concise history of how Evangelicals separated salvation from discipleship. For example, Willard claims that WWII was great for soul winning, but bad for discipleship. In fact, he denied that

By Summer Stevens As we usher in another year and the world continues to spiral even farther into an orbit of suspicion, fear, and strife, I find myself echoing Habakkuk’s cry. “How long, O Lord…?” How long will You allow this to continue? How long will fear dominate the day? How long will anger be

By Mark Piland Introduction Rob Lowe, the former teenage heartthrob who knows a thing or two about skeletons coming out of the closet, had this to say about the perils of being famous in America: “Anyone who’s lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere. And anybody who doesn’t have a