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Stories

  • To Heal or Not to Heal

    When we pray for healing, God sometimes cures someone; but sometimes he doesn’t, and we’re left with the question, “Why?”

  • Where Church and Families Find Each Other

    God made people to operate best in families, whether we like it or not, but what happens when our families are not healthy?

  • How Bad Is Pornography Really?

    In the internet age, vast numbers of believers are exposed and addicted to sexually explicit material, and the church has traditionally been silent on how they can find real freedom and healing.

  • Beauty Through Pain

    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Living With Strange Wisdom

    The ways that believers approach money should be one of the most striking things that people outside of the church notice about us.

  • Two Versions of the Future

    “Will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily…” (Luke 18:7-8 ESV).

    French has two forms of future tense: “l’avenir” and “le futur.”

  • The Tricky Business of Family Legacy

    Our family can either be the best blessing in our lives or the worst burden, but either way God always has a plan for them and us.

    “You don’t choose your family,” Desmond Tutu, the archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, stated. “They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

  • Should the Church Go Big or Small?

    In the search for genuine community, believers have even more options to consider these days than ever.

    A British pastor visited my friend’s church in Los Angeles, and what he told them all shocked them a bit.

  • Should Church Be the Lord’s Gym?

    Many believers have a spotty history with fitness, and the Bible says nearly nothing about it, so Christians often struggle with how they should approach this aspect of care for our bodies. 

    “Lord’s Gym: Bench Press This!”

  • The Spiritual Side of Food (Not in a Creepy, Mystic Way)

    As people move farther and farther away from the sources of their food, we’ve started questioning more and more what we should eat.