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If, like the disciples, we asked Jesus to teach us to pray, his first response to us in 2017 may be, “First, turn off your phone.”
01/05/2017 - By Zac Harrel
Here are five questions whose answers will affect international religious freedom this year.
01/05/2017 - By Marv Knox
The Lord is calling you, whatever your season of life, to walk in faithful obedience to the Great Commandment: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. And love your neighbor as yourself.
01/05/2017 - By Guest Writer
Letters this week focus on Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore, conservative Christians’ political hypocrisy and the Baptist General Convention of Texas’ vote to remove LGBT-affirming congregations.
01/04/2017 - By Marv Knox
What does a plastic toy “Jesus” have to do with evangelicals in today’s political arena? Plenty, says church historian Bill Leonard.
01/02/2017 - By Marv Knox
Arguments about how to acknowledge this season miss the whole point of Christmas.
12/20/2016 - By Marv Knox
Christmas spirituals endure not only because they celebrate the joyous, raw beauty of Jesus’ birth, but also because they open a door to the Eternal Now. (Dallas Morning News)
Our hope is in God who raised our Lord from the dead and who promises to raise us. This hope is so much greater than our beggarly hopes for our own welfare and happiness.
Let us find peace in Christ so we may bear what the world so desperately needs, remembering the same Lord who is shalom for the world also is our shalom, our peace.
Because of the violence and injustice in the world and in our nation, columnist Craig Nash says, this Christmas is different than typical yuletides.
12/20/2016 - By Craig Nash
Baylor University social work professor Helen Harris provides insights into how to help grieving family and friends at Christmas, when feelings of loss may be most acute.
Whenever we look at the darkness or the silence, we can point others to the cross and remind them that in Jesus, all of the answers to the promises of God are yes and amen. Don’t look away; the Lord never did.
