It’s time to get honest about the state of our witness as Christians. When was the last time you had a spiritual conversation with someone? How about a conversation you would characterize as distinctively Christian? Are you satisfied with that as a person commissioned by Christ to extend the knowledge of the good news of […]
Are you talking about me behind me back? Well, if not, why not? That’s right, I want you to gossUP. GossUP, you ask? Yes, gossUP. Think of it as an antonym for gossip – the very opposite of tattle tales or nay-saying, GossUP is talking positively about other people behind their backs. Telling stories of […]
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Remember when Mary presumed the man she saw on the first Easter morning was the gardener? Think about that. The risen Christ looked like a gardener to one of the people who knew him best in all the world. As we till the soil of life, […]
Start the Conversation: The Connecting Point: There are many onramps into this conversation. From headline news revealing the adulterous infidelity of public officials, to the treatment of marriage by Hollywood, to the ways in which marriage is degraded by redefinition and so-called no-fault divorce. Marriage is seen by many as unnecessary. The number of people […]
The reality on the U.S. southern border is unsustainable. News reports conflict as to “why” but everyone agrees that people must be treated with dignity and the system is failing. I continue to advocate for comprehensive immigration reform but Congress seems unlikely to move on that agenda. Facilities are totally overwhelmed and we are asking […]
What’s your why? That’s the question a ministry consultant recently asked me. We were talking about what I do every day and he asked, “What’s your why? Everyone has a why – the real motivation behind why you do what you every day. So, what’s your why?” It’s a great question. Once you know your […]
This week International Religious Freedom takes center stage in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Ambassador for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, is casting an inspiring vision for the State Department’s 2nd Ministerial on the topic. At the heart of it is to get people of every faith to stand up and defend the right of freedom […]
Only Ohio and Tennessee continue to uphold biological reality on birth certificates as Kansas becomes the 48th state to allow people to change their birth certificate to match their transgender identity. From the article we read, “It was time for Kansas to move past its outdated and discriminatory anti-transgender policy,” Gov. Laura Kelly said in a statement […]
Timothy King, author of Addiction Nation, joins Carmen to discuss his book which examines the epidemic of opioids through a number of related angles: the injustice of the war on drugs, the crisis of meaning in our culture, institutional greed, technology and the pervasiveness of addiction in our society today. This is an uplifting, […]
People often ask me how I do what I do. What they mean by that is how do I find a way to get God into just about every conversation. First let me say, don’t make it harder than it is. Take what culture gives you, think about what you’re thinking about and how you’re […]