Dan Hanselman

The World on Fire: What Would Jesus Do?

I have never personally seen such division, hatred, and grief in my lifetime. It seems like America is intent on tearing itself apart right

Sam Hardman

COVID-19 and Starving Orphans

Imagine being responsible for feeding twenty-three thousand orphans in a poverty-stricken country at a time when many parts of the global food supply chain

Sam Hardman

Battling Lust

How is it that we so readily fall prey to lust? Presumably we don’t wake up in the morning plotting how we might engage in lustful thoughts and lust-producing actions.

Sam Hardman

Things We Disagree with: Engage or Shun?

When we encounter things that we believe to be objectionable – ideas, images, music, film, etc. – how should we respond? In my most recent

Kevin Steyer

Strange and Dangerous Thoughts

In my studies I am required to read various authors who think strange thoughts. The most prominent in this category are pagan philosophers like Plotinus

Sam Hardman

Finding Goodness in Loss

The old adage, “absence makes the heart grow fonder,” is certainly not invariably true. Nonetheless it does convey a real insight about something deeply

Kevin Steyer

Romans 12

I was reminded this week of the reality that in the Body of Christ, the Church, we all have varied gifts, talents, and resources. My only aim in this post is to encourage you

Sam Hardman

What Lies Ahead

I have an image in my mind that, I think, serves as a sort of metaphor for where we are right now. We have a delightful UPS delivery man who is unfailingly pleasant and

David Feister

The Battle of Easter Weekend

We recently watched the 1990 Disney animated film, The Rescuers Down Under, with our kids. The story follows a boy named Cody, living in Australia, who is

Kevin Steyer

Praying for Our Leaders

Paul writes, in response to the problem of false teachers stirring up trouble at Ephesus: “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers,

Kevin Steyer

“Three Acres and a Cow”

Although the phrase “three acres and a cow” was not coined by G. K. Chesterton, it was popularized by him in his book, What’s Wrong with the World. It

Sam Hardman

Be Alert and Lean in

Spiritual alertness is necessary at all times, but perhaps especially in times like these. Anxiety is high, we have to work harder at staying connected with people

Kevin Steyer

A Few Good Things

The coronavirus crisis facing the world is an opportunity for Christians to refocus on what is good. Many of us are locked in at home, not going out except in

Kevin Steyer

Sam Hardman

For Such a Time As This

Why am I here? Why now? Why in this time and place? I could have been born into some peasant family in ancient Gaul. Or not born at all. Why here and now? If God

Sam Hardman

Longing

“And they lived happily ever after.” What response do those words conjure in your soul? For the littlest children – and perhaps among the ever-diminishing number of

Sam Hardman

You who are both David’s Son and David’s Lord,

how greatly we need Your mercy!

The inclination of our hearts

to twist Your word in devilish self-service –

to exonerate

Sam Hardman

“…have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He

Sam Hardman

Left vs. Right – Is Jesus a Moderate?

In politics we have the Right and we have the Left. We have the Conservatives and we have the Liberals. And so often people think that what we

Sam Hardman

Someone recently asked me about the short and rather shocking account at the end of 2 Kings 2 (vv. 23-25), so this is an attempt to summarize how I think this passage is to be