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Our Lenten offering is prayer for the whole, broken Church. Not so hard. We are wholly broken, full of faith, bursting with seeds of hope...

Besides the obvious reasons why a man and a woman need each other to bring forth life, he and she together help the lives that they...

A young Catholic priest who participated in a recent Living Waters Training engaged a lot with our mostly evangelical crowd; he got...

‘Rates of suicide are nearly twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery…’ Dr. Paul...

God always honors His Word and sacraments even if His servants act dishonorably. For example, I once had a pastor whose stellar preaching...

‘Faith in the Lord’s real Presence and His transforming power decides everything. If this faith is firm, the Church’s doctrine about...

We gathered for our Gender Matters conference in New York City last weekend (soon to be in Kansas City February 10, sign up now!); the...

‘Arise and shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and deep darkness the...

‘The incarnation has forever hallowed the flesh.’ Charles Williams (as quoted by Leanne Payne in The Healing Presence) Today we rejoice...

‘The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me; He has sent Me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to heal the...

‘John came preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. All the people of Jerusalem went out to him, confessing their...

Amid the din (virtual and otherwise), thank you for quieting your heart long enough to read this. Amid a thousand requests for your...

In these last couple weeks of our fast, I’ve had the privilege of making two trips to the Northeast where I witnessed the irresistible...

Fasting is about solidarity with those who suffer; in our self-emptying, we cry out for Jesus to restore them. He suffered; He now lives...

As flames sear the West Coast, so the Hollywood community skewers one of its ‘gods’ (Meryl Streep referred to Weinstein as one in...

While we as the Desert Stream staff prayed for our upcoming Living Waters European Leaders gathering in Poland, I received these words:...

How do we embody the Gospel for persons enslaved to the false liberties of our day? We pray, and ask God to give us mercy, vision and...

‘How pleasing it is when brothers and sisters live together in unity.’(PS 133:1) We please Him. Maybe it’s because we realize that...

At the Courage conference last week in Chicago, Annette and I had the privilege to testify on the glorious challenge of forging a...

Sexuality has something to do with directing us out of our aloneness and into creative communion with others. God made it that way....