While I plunged further into darkness, a middle-school classmate kept lifting me up to God. I started walking in the valley of the shadow of death at a very young age. In first grade, I became aware of something: What you see is not all there is. The spiritual world was real to me, even …
Jesus built his church from a group of enemies. Why did I love to sting mine? On a typical Thanksgiving I would have been in the house with my family, putting the final touches on the meal. We might even have talked about religion and politics as we worked, but not in a bad dinner …
An understanding of human dignity and responsibility belongs in the development of artificial intelligence for military uses. Recently, Google hit the pause button on a military artificial intelligence project amidst thorny ethical questions raised by its own employees. Increasingly in new drone and surveillance systems, human knowledge and actions are augmented and soon might be …
We are obsessed with making progress, but the Bible reminds us it is often important to go back. Returning does not resonate in 2018. Who wants to come back to something? We would rather push forward no matter what the cost, reach new heights, or at the least be a few steps farther along than …
How community helps us discern our callings. When the Emmy Awards honored Fred Rogers with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, he did something that took everyone in the room off guard. The beloved public television star (and ordained Presbyterian minister) refused to make the moment about himself. “So many people have helped me to …
Our most effective weapon against injustice is carried and concealed in our hearts. The tanks don’t always stop in China, as they did when the world watched a lone, brave man stand in Tiananmen Square and face down tanks designed to quell opposition to the government. Few were watching in 2016 when the Reverend Li …
Hate is weak. Mercy is strong. We at Christianity Today were grieved to hear about the mass shooting at a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh, claiming 11 lives. Sadly the local worshiping community has again become the place for the deranged to express their anger. It demonstrates how hate, which seems so strong, is often just …
Both the North and the South read the same Scripture. What’s going on here? “If the South had won the Civil War, slavery would have continued…and the South was as Bible-believing as the North.” – Mark Noll What do we do with the fact that so many Bible-believing Christians endorsed–and found biblical justification for–something as …
1 Corinthians 6:1-9 does not apply to every situation. What could possibly possess a Bible church to file a lawsuit against three outspoken critics of their ministry? Harvest Bible Chapel has not strayed from its 30-year commitment to the unapologetic preaching of God’s Word, nor have we forgotten the explicit teaching of 1 Corinthians 6:1-9. …
Can Christians at odds still follow 1 Corinthians and avoid taking each other to court? A Chicagoland megachurch pastor has sued a Christian media personality and two former church-members-turned-potential-whistleblowers for defamation. According to Harvest Bible Chapel pastor James McDonald, former Moody Radio host Julie Roys and bloggers Ryan Mahoney and Scott Bryant published and helped …