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In the internet age, vast numbers of believers are exposed and addicted to sexually explicit material, and the church has traditionally been silent on how they can find real freedom and healing.

Spencer B. Olmstead and his colleagues conducted a survey of young college students, asking them what they thought about pornography.

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

You probably have thalassophobia, though you may not use that word to describe one of the world’s most common fears.

The ways that believers approach money should be one of the most striking things that people outside of the church notice about us.

In 1973, J. Paul Getty’s grandson was kidnapped and held for a $17 million ransom. The oil tycoon was, at that time, the richest man in the world. Despite this, he refused to pay anything to save his grandchild until another family member convinced him to at least contribute to the rescue.

“Will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily…” (Luke 18:7-8 ESV).

French has two forms of future tense: “l’avenir” and “le futur.”

The first form refers to what will result from people’s actions in the present. The second is more ambiguous and open-ended because there are simply certain turns in future events that cannot be predicted.

Our family can either be the best blessing in our lives or the worst burden, but either way God always has a plan for them and us.

“You don’t choose your family,” Desmond Tutu, the archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, stated. “They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

In the search for genuine community, believers have even more options to consider these days than ever.

A British pastor visited my friend’s church in Los Angeles, and what he told them all shocked them a bit.

Many believers have a spotty history with fitness, and the Bible says nearly nothing about it, so Christians often struggle with how they should approach this aspect of care for our bodies. 

“Lord’s Gym: Bench Press This!”

Seeing this 90s t-shirt’s logo of Jesus bench-pressing the cross was the first time I’d ever really thought about God and working out, mostly because Christ in the illustration was…well, extremely buff.

As people move farther and farther away from the sources of their food, we’ve started questioning more and more what we should eat.

The news practically swirls with updates about the newest religious diet, debates about whether it’s more spiritual to be vegetarian or vegan and what it means to have ethically sourced food.

"Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only Beloved who will never pass away” —C.S. Lewis in The Four Loves 

The process of finding a spouse is an age-old process, and the yet the modern methods of going about it might alarm some.

“I hope you like alpha males because I’m your guy. That’s right, I’m the whole package. I’ll defend your honor in public.”

This is the guy I’d fully expect to shoplift or dine-and-ditch on our first date and then leave me to explain his nonsense to the cops.