7) Avoid Spending Time with Your Family One of the easiest ways to get bummed out in the holiday is to spend it with your family. It seems no matter how hard we try, a family squabble always breaks out during the holiday season. Family Drama? NO, THANK YOU! We suggest spending Christmas on your own, with your bae, or with your dog you pretend is a human child. Read more
Modern man has forgotten the offense of his own sins in favor of highlighting another’s. Read more
Early on in the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri there is a brief shot of a character reading a book. The book, acting like a literary product placement, is Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.” O’Connor was a Southern Catholic writer who was known for stories with shocking acts of violence followed by moments of real grace. It was part of O’Connor’s philosophy that to fully understand grace, we must see and feel human depravity. Read more
The prosperity “gospel” fundamentally misunderstands the Bible. Read more
The cross of Christ is a critical distinguishing factor of Christianity. Deny the reality of the event or the historical existence of the person, and you end up something very anti-Christian. In the most beautiful demonstration of love the world has ever seen, God became man to suffer in place of His people. I have heard it said that justice and love kissed on the cross. Justice demands punishment for sin and love offers a perfect substitute. Read more
In the small, Mid-west town known by the name of Bomont, a panel of fundamentalist Baptist preachers recently released a study confirming a well-known, but never empirically proven fact: dancing is of the devil. As any serious student of the Scriptures knows, dancing of any form is anathema, leading partakers to swiftly endure the full fury of the Almighty. Yet surprisingly, the panel stumbled upon the root cause of dancing – something which has alluded Baptists since the dawn of... Read more
New York, NY – Hillsong Church Pastor Carl Lentz sought professional help in response to the heavy backlash from refusing to acknowledge that abortion is a sin on his recent appearance on ABC’s The View. After frantically visiting medical professionals all over New York state, doctors have confirmed what many feared: Carl Lentz is indeed without a spine Read more
We have an innate propensity to dispense cheap solutions which never address the heart of the matter. Read more
A new documentary that opens this week, I’ll Push You, shows two friends going on a unique journey in order to see the world but ultimately to delight in each other’s friendship. Through their journey they learn humility and how serving brings joy. Read more
In the wake of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, undoubtedly, much ink has been spilled contemplating the spirited boldness and theological acumen of the Reformers. In the midst of this though, many Catholics and Protestants alike are expressing something of great concern: lament over the divide the Reformation caused. This is disconcerting simply by virtue of the lament being over the division itself rather than the gospel. Strikingly, it seems the majority of Roman Catholics and Protestants have either neglected... Read more
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