Cross Purposes

On this day 150 years ago, the Civil War began when secessionists fired on a U.S. Army fort. When it was over, 25% of southern men were dea...

God's tests are always a chance: rather, a mandate: to test ourselves...whosoever will. His test this week is even clearer than usual i...

Earlier this week, while I was frantically trying to finish my work and leave for a meeting I was already late for, our lawyer-neighbor came...

I don't usually bother to be for or against politicians. It's a mindless substitute for thinking through political issues, or havi...

It's well-known that persecution makes the Church stronger. We don't currently perceive that the American Church is under persecuti...

I don't claim to know what is coming. I do know that increasingly I hear God speaking of judgement. Some I respect as devoted servants...

A word...more importantly, a concept...I'm increasingly hearing in "Christian conservatives' " discourse is "statism...

My state is voting today on rewording a state constitutional provision on "the right to bear arms." There is basically no opposit...

We all know the Pharisees, the "hypocrites" Jesus excoriated repeatedly during His earthly ministry. He denounced their hyper-scr...

God never said mankind's problem is evil politics, bad government, or false philosophies. Those works of man are evil because they grow...