Todayâs article is based on an engaging conversation I had with Alex Faith, who runs a business as a Christian writer. She is also the founder of a Christian writers community called When Calls the Pen. If you think you might be called to be a writer, or you wish you could actually sell more copies of your published book, I encourage you to watch or listen to the full interview. Watch the full interview and read the transcript, or... Read more
Terrible things would happen if they did It is just as well for all of us that the morals and lifestyle of the vast majority atheists do not live consistently with what they say they believe. We literally need to thank God for his role in restraining the madness that would ensue if they did. This article is based on a conversation with Christ Wright, author of The Atheist Conversation Manual and Thomas Hamilton, founder of Christian Book Finder. Watch... Read more
Move on! Drop the negative influence! Cancel the crazy ones in your life! That is not the call of Jesus, but it is the call of our modern culture. Jesus commands us to love not just our neighbors, but also our enemies. I never thought I would have enemies. It all sounds a bit dramatic but, as life goes on, you might find there is a group of people who you have offended in one way or another. Some of... Read more
Readers of this blog should be no strangers to me advocating for the biopsychosocial-spiritual model of health and wellbeing. Today I want to address the sometimes thorny topic of how spirituality can and should be incorporated into healthcare. Clearly I am not talking about bashing people over the head with the Bible and trying to convert them. But as retired mental health nurse Sandra Delemare said in our recent interview, "Spiritual care is asking someone how they are and really listening to the answer because you genuinely want to know"Â Read more
Raised With Christ is Warnockâs answer to years of sermons (his own included) that stopped short of resurrectionâs full weight. Drawing on Scripture and classic theological voices, this book walks readers through what it actually means to be âraised with Christâ â not as a doctrine to affirm once a year at Easter, but as a daily reality that reshapes identity, hope, and how believers face death itself. Read more
How the church lost sight of the centrality of a personal relationship with Jesus and how we might recover it It was a joy and a privilege to interview Gary York, the author of Christ in You: Experiencing Intimacy with Jesus. This article reflects our conversation, organized in the form of a list of reasons why the average Christian today seems to have  a very different experience of their relationship with Jesus than previous generations. Gary explains this deficit beautifully... Read more
"Oh, may His precious name be engraved on our hearts, and sound sweeter than music to our ears. For He has loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and will save to the uttermost in defiance of all our sins, fears, and enemies!"Â Read more
When our hope's are dashed, and we do not understand, God is still trustworthy. In my recent interview with Tim Challies we looked back over more than 20 years of personal blogging. Deciding all those years ago to share our journeys online has meant that we have both lived our lives in view of our readers. And that has inevitably meant being open about our challenges.  We have both gone through some significantly difficult situations. Just still being Christians after all these years might be seen by some as an achievement. But in our interview Tim credited his preservation to God Himself rather than anything special about him. Read more
What makes a person read an entire multi volume edition of a 300 year-old preacherâs published works? Keith Pummer kept reading because Newton kept leading him to Jesus as he read a small portion day after day. It took long-term discipline and commitment until he got to the end. There is something profoundly counter-cultural about that image of someone deciding to take on a task like that and step by step progress through the journey he had set for himself.... Read more
"I find vanity engraved in capital letters, on myself and everything around me. I am surrounded by mercies, and so completely satisfied with my outward condition, that I could hardly wish a single circumstance changed. Yet I feel emptiness, and so I sigh and groan."Â Read more
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