John Stonestreet and Michaela Estruth

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  • Pill-Popping Morality: Who Needs Jesus?

    Pill-Popping Morality: Who Needs Jesus?

    We recently told you about a pill designed to erase bad memories. How about a pill to erase bad behavior?

  • Your Work Matters to God: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good

    Your Work Matters to God: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good

    What is the point of work? Can we really glorify God not just with your work, but in our work?

  • The Irony of the New Tolerance: It Doesn't Tolerate Christians

    The Irony of the New Tolerance: It Doesn't Tolerate Christians

    It's not only our culture's view of marriage that's changed, it's also the tolerance level for any dissent from the new orthodoxy.

  • Maundy Thursday and the Marriage Battle

    Maundy Thursday and the Marriage Battle

    Because the Thursday before Easter is known as Maundy Thursday, the day set aside on the Church calendar to remember the Last Supper. At this first celebration of communion, Jesus gave His disciples what He called "a new command" to love and serve one another.

  • How Will Your Church Deal With Same-Sex Marriage?

    How Will Your Church Deal With Same-Sex Marriage?

    As World Vision president Rich Stearns told reporters, "Christian organizations will continue to deal with this sensitive issue." That, my friends, is an understatement. Anyone currently trying to sit this one out, will soon realize how little neutral ground there actually is. And that will reveal how many Christians and Christian organizations just don't "get" marriage.

  • 'Cosmos' vs. 'Master Designer'

    'Cosmos' vs. 'Master Designer'

    "The cosmos is all that is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be." Those opening words from Carl Sagan's 1980s TV series, "The Cosmos" are a succinct statement of what's become the driving philosophy behind much of modern science and science education: materialism.

  • Responding to Our 'Pornified' Culture

    Responding to Our 'Pornified' Culture

    Even the secular world is worried about pornography. But without the worldview to fight it, they're at an impasse. This is where the church can help.

  • Baking Cakes for Caesar: Why We Need Freedom to Say 'No'

    Baking Cakes for Caesar: Why We Need Freedom to Say 'No'

    Would Jesus bake cakes for same-sex weddings? It's a good question, but there's more to this whole issue than just WWJD.

  • The Celebrity Trap: Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pop Stars

    The Celebrity Trap: Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pop Stars

    One of the first times Americans over the age of twelve saw Miley Cyrus on television was an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show. During the Q&A, the 14-year-old Cyrus told Winfrey that her favorite Bible verse was Ephesians 6:10-11: "Finally, my brothers, come close to the Lord for if you put on the full armor of God you can stand against the wiles of the devil."

  • Tim's Place. . . and Ours: Down Syndrome and Our Humanity

    Tim's Place. . . and Ours: Down Syndrome and Our Humanity

    In the very same strip mall I saw the sign for a restaurant called Tim's Place, with the tag line: "breakfast, lunch, and hugs." It just sounded familiar. And then it dawned on me—this was the restaurant I'd heard about before, the one owned by a 26-year-old man with Down syndrome—Tim Harris. You may have heard this story on CNN or seen it on YouTube.