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‘The rain came down, the stream rose, and the winds blew and beat against the house; yet it did not fall, because it was founded on the...

I remember always loving the cross. Growing up in a beach town near Los Angeles in the sixties and seventies, my three siblings and I...

Why such a gap between our belief in God’s capacity to cleanse us from all unrighteousness and our refusal to let Him? My friend Dana...

‘We are more important to God than all the sins we commit. But He does not and cannot bless sin. He blesses sinful man, so that he may...

‘The task of the Christian is not to whine about the moment in which he or she lives but to understand its problems and to respond...

‘Our commitment on issues of human sexuality [and every other area] are guided by Christ’s commandment to love and to stand in solidarity...

‘Because we are vulnerable, we can be brave.’ Josef Pieper ‘Inner healing’ tends to attract women, who usually access their wounds more...

‘Why complain when you can act?’ Elizabeth Lesoeur Annette agreed to teach ‘Offering the Gift’ alongside me at Living Waters last week—no...

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

The Lord inhabits humble, barren spaces. His very presence sanctifies them. A shepherd’s pasture becomes a contact point for divine...

“Rejoice!” (Phil 4:4) Today is known as “Gaudete Sunday” (Gaudete--Latin “rejoice”). We set a fire to the lone rose-colored candle. The...

It’s hard to see things as they are. When what I see sets off prophetic alarms, I am tempted to look away and dull myself with...

Hey, join me and Marco Casanova for our podcast, Desert Streaming. (Clever, eh? My daughter Katie came up with it.) We go live next...

‘…it seems clear that consistent exposure to a smorgasbord of variant sexual behaviors and the intense questioning of a heterosexual norm...

‘Along with most Christians, I have come to the conviction that the gospel message exists in its purest form in the Bible (particularly...

‘Jesus made no direct or explicit comments on same-sex intercourse, just as He made no direct comments on many other important subjects....

In studying the Levitical Holiness Code, and Lev. 18:22 and 20:13 in particular, Gagnon asserts: ‘The degree of revulsion associated with...

‘The objective of this book is to demonstrate two main points. First, there is clear, strong, and credible evidence that the Bible...

‘The task of conjugal chastity, and still more specifically of continence, lies not only in protecting the importance of and the dignity...

‘…the human body speaks a “language” of which it is not the author in the proper sense of the term. The author is man--male and...