John Stonestreet and Jared Hayden

John Stonestreet and Jared Hayden

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  • What is our Christian identity in this anonymous age?

    What is our Christian identity in this anonymous age?

    The deepest conflicts in this moment aren’t moral ones. It’s not a disagreement about what’s right and what’s wrong, even though certainly our views on that as a culture have dramatically changed. The deeper confusion is about who we actually are. 

  • The pandemic of despair

    The pandemic of despair

    Who else can address this culture-wide pandemic of despair but the Church? Who else, if not us fellow beggars who have found the Bread of Life. In a society literally dying of despair, to “always be ready to give an answer for the hope that you have to anyone who asks,” is not a mere suggestion. It’s a calling. It’s a matter of life or death.

  • How the image of God offers freedom

    How the image of God offers freedom

    The most significant challenges we face in our culture are not fundamentally moral ones. We do face moral challenges but the ones we face are the fruit of the problems, not the root. It’s the effect, not the cause. At the root of the issues of our culture has been a dramatic shift in how we think about the nature and value of the human person.

  • Confused souls find rest in God’s image

    Confused souls find rest in God’s image

    The new sexual orthodoxy encourages hurting young people to change what shouldn’t be changed and discourages them from working on the things that they can work on.

  • Join in 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World

    Join in 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World

    The Book of James tells us that the effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much. This has been a movement of prayer of hundreds of thousands of Christians for decades. Let’s be a part of it.

  • Losing ourselves

    Losing ourselves

    In other words, things that were once considered wrong are now considered right, and things that were once considered right are now considered wrong.

  • Rescuing the victims of the sexual revolution

    Rescuing the victims of the sexual revolution

    There used to be a time when fatherlessness was considered a tragedy. Now, raising a child without a father or, in some cases, without a mother is a perfectly acceptable intentional choice.

  • Should singles adopt? Redeeming brokenness instead of creating it

    Should singles adopt? Redeeming brokenness instead of creating it

    The fundamental assumptions of a Christian worldview are straightforward. Right and wrong are grounded in eternal truths, not subject to the whims of a person or a culture.

  • The Equality Act: What to know and what to do

    The Equality Act: What to know and what to do

    You should only care about the Equality Act if you are a Christian, or a person of faith, or a woman, or own a business, or run a nonprofit, or go to school, or teach at a school, or are a medical or mental-health professional, or (especially) are a female athlete, or under the age of 18, or ever use a public restroom.

  • Ravi Zacharias and the infinite human capacity to deceive ourselves

    Ravi Zacharias and the infinite human capacity to deceive ourselves

    There is no sugar-coating, excusing, or explaining away Ravi’s behavior. It was sinful. It was wicked. And, as this report made crystal clear, it was duplicitous. As St. Paul wrote, “There is none righteous, no not one.”