When times are tough, and the world seems like it’s caving in on top of you, one of our natural instincts is to turn towards God, with our arms outstretched towards the heavens, and exclaim in a voice of despair: “Why me, God?” Inherent within that statement is the belief that somehow the universe has …

By now, most of us have heard about the 50-year-old Democratic/Republican county clerk out of Rowan County, Kentucky, who famously resisted the Supreme Court’s decision to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples (but even if you haven’t, that’s a pretty good summary right there). Because of her religious position on the issue, she was subsequently …

My family loves baseball (my immediate family that is), and usually every time we get together, there’s a random Wiffle baseball game that breaks out at some point during the weekend. We always enjoy it, I always win, and everyone always goes home happy. But as far as I know, we’re the only one of …

There’s the proverbial cart, and then the horse, and then there’s Acts 11. In a time when the Church was growing at an “explosionistic” rate, the world was being rapidly introduced to the teachings of a Carpenter from Nazareth who had died not many years before. Hung from a cross and vilified by both His …

Although I’m not a magic expert, I think it’s safe to say that of all people, Harry Houdini holds a premier position as one of the greatest illusionists of all time. Watching the videos and hearing the stories gives one the impression that there was nothing he couldn’t get out of, from straitjackets held under …

By this point, you might have heard about the recent Pew Research Center study entitled “America’s Changing Religious Landscape,” which reported some startling finds in regards to our nation’s spirituality: that the “Christian” share of the U.S. population is declining, and the number of adults who don’t identify with any organized religion is growing. Claiming …

An unmistakable evil, one that rocked the world to it’s very core. A crime so despicable it could be thought up by only the most envious and crooked mind. And while scholars have suggested that Judas’ motive for betraying Jesus was in part due to his misunderstanding of the Kingdom that Jesus was trying to …

Matthew starts out in a way that will make many think of the Old Testament, with a genealogy, describing the ancestry of Jesus. Indeed, the book of Matthew can rightly be described as the “gospel to the Jews,” as it quotes more Old Testament passages than any of the other three gospels. Jews were very …

From the writings of the wisest man that has ever existed comes a story that is like no other: an upfront and personal look at the moment an affair is devised (Proverbs 7:6-23). Though this story has been told and retold, preached and repreached countless number of times, the intricacies must be re-examined countless more …

Let me ask you a question. What if, instead of the current life you now enjoy, with your job and your home and your every tuesday night Biggest Loser episodes, you were wanted for belonging to a secret society that the government had called out a search warrant on? They were kicking down doors, barging …