The global pandemic began a decade of tremendous uncertainty, loss, and suffering. It is fruitless to try and fight, control, or ignore grief. Here, we look to Scripture for healthy examples of dealing with the trials of life.
Western expressions of our faith have dichotomized church and missions as different things. This should never be so. We can learn from the African Church that all believers carry a responsibility for missions-type of activities.
Artificial, augmented, or assisted intelligence can be entrancing. There are many pitfalls to be aware of, but in January a disruptive newcomer was released to the public from China called DeepSeek and it may help improve critical thinking.
We can all too flippantly use the term "God willing", while not really appreciating what God's will might be. He has made some of his will plain, but there is much about the future we can not know. Yet true believers trust that it will be for good.
Mothers experience a great deal of change when first becoming a parent. This time in a family's life can provide an open door for exploring spirituality and finding faith within a mothers group. The rest of the family is likely to follow.
It is so very easy to be swayed by the philosophies of the world today and hold to certain beliefs tightly thinking we are being our authentic selves. But Jesus demands something different. Only when we surrender our lives to him will we find our true identity in Christ.
While some parts of the world experience horrific terrorism and abuse of Christians, churches have the opportunity to make the biggest difference for religious freedom in the world today. In this final part of a series on religious freedom, our attention turns to Latin America.
As the Church matures around the world, new indigenous expressions are emerging different from Anglo-European doctrinal assumptions. The gospel always incarnates in the lives, ethnicities, and places of its followers, like new wine requiring new wineskins.
Parenting today can seem overly complex. Trusting God for the best outcome is essential and applying well proven principles can also help create resilient children. Using the 4 S's is a simple system that can boost every parent's ability to set their children up for success in life.
One hundred years ago, Europeans were trying to convert Africans to Christianity. Today, Africans are worried that Europeans will make their children convert from Christianity to secularism. The challenge is very real and not enough is being done to address it.
Most social environments today are marked by ideological conflicts, usually political in nature. We can too easily get drawn in to taking sides, which will matter little when we are lying on our death bed. God calls Jesus' followers to higher standards, to be peacemakers who sow in peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.
While some parts of the world experience horrific terrorism and abuse of Christians, churches have the opportunity to make the biggest difference for religious freedom in the world today. In this fourth part of a series on religious freedom, our attention turns to East Asia.
