There is a moment most people recognize, even if they have never had a name for it. It is the moment when someone who once mattered to you decides, based on a single word, a single action, or a single failure, that you no longer matter to them. The door closes. The calls stop. The relationship dissolves. In our current cultural moment, this experience has become so common that we have given it a label: cancel culture.  Read More

There is a question that cuts right to the heart of what it means to be human, to be mortal, to be standing before a holy God: Do you need to be perfect in order to have eternal life?  Read More

There is a particular kind of grief that does not announce itself loudly. It settles quietly in the chest, surfacing in unguarded moments when a familiar face comes to mind and you are reminded, again, that this person you love does not know Jesus Christ as their Savior. It is a grief without a clear remedy, a sorrow that cannot be fixed with a casserole or a phone call or a donation. And yet it is one of the most spiritually significant emotions a believer can carry.  Read More

Picture yourself sitting in a defendant's chair. The charges against you are not minor infractions or technicalities. You are on trial for every sin you have ever committed against God — every harsh word spoken in anger, every moment of cruelty toward a family member or neighbor, every wrong deed carried out and every good deed deliberately left undone. The weight of the charges is suffocating. You look around the courtroom and realize the situation is even more dire than you imagined.  Read More

What part of Jesus' return are you looking forward to the most? It's a question worth pondering. Perhaps it's seeing Jesus face to face, or the end of all pain and suffering. Maybe it's being reunited with other believers, or witnessing peace finally come to the Middle East. Whatever images fill your mind, whatever longings stir your heart, gather them all together and consider this powerful truth from Romans 8:18: "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us."  Read More

There's a phrase that echoes through our culture with increasing frequency: "I owe it to myself to be happy." On the surface, it sounds reasonable, even empowering. But when we examine it through the lens of Scripture, we discover something profoundly troubling about this self-centered declaration.  Read More