Faith and Encouragement

The Terrifying Responsibility of Teaching (Part 5 of Reflecting on Fallen Leaders)

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment. (James 3:1) Whenever I think about how a teacher falls into sin so […]

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The Depravity of Our Leaders and Teachers (Part 4 of Thinking Through the Ravi Zacharias Scandal)

Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority (John Dalberg-Acton, 1887)  Why do those with the

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The Centrality of the Local Church (Part 3 of Thinking Through the Ravi Zacharias Scandal)

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) (This is part of an ongoing series. Check out part one and part two) In reading and listening to other commentators on this subject, *I heard an interesting point: Ravi Zacharias may

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The Toxic Desire for “Yes Men” (Part 2 of Thinking Through the Ravi Zacharias Scandal)

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) (This is an ongoing series. Check out part one here.) In the last decade, a number of celebrity pastors and teachers have either fallen into sin or have adopted such strange theology

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The Danger of Celebrity Culture (Part 1 of Thinking Through the Ravi Zacharias Scandal)

Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) The Christian community continues to lose prominent figures in America. As each year goes by, more men and women are compromising, sometimes even completely losing, ministries that God has used in the

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How to Glorify God With Your Time

Approximate Reading Time: 8 minutes Glorifying God with our time looks similar to glorifying Him with our money. Like many younger adults, I lived most of my adult life without worrying about a budget. Money always seemed like a guaranteed resource that would always be around, I just had to avoid spending the ambiguous amount of “too much.” So when

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“Amen and A-Woman” – A Biblical Perspective

Approximate Reading Time: 7 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) The internet and media are angry again. On January 3rd, 2021 a Methodist minister and congressman named Emanuel Cleaver concluded his prayer in front of congress with “Amen and a-woman,” leading many

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How I Survive Depression

Approximate Reading Time: 11 minutes If you’ve only recently discovered this ministry, you may not know that I have a long history with depression. I’ve talked extensively about mental health in my 5 part series on psychology, and I got very personal in part 4 (check out parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I’ve also shared how God uses my

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Please Remember Christ Before Talking About the Election

Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) We are reaching the end of a very hostile, emotional, and fear-fueled election in America. Whatever happens, our country is going to be at war with itself. Republicans and Democrats will be

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