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7 Keys to Understanding Tough Bible Passages
If you read the Bible for very long at all, you'll run across some tough passages. Sometimes the Bible is hard to understand. After all, we're separated from the original readers by a span of 2000 years or more. Not to mention the fact that we speak different languages fro...
An Open Letter from One Pastor to the Millennial Generation
Dear Millennial Generation, I recently ran across a piece titled, "An Open Letter to the Church from My Generation," written by a college student in South Dakota. Dannika Nash, the writer of the letter, says she speaks for your entire generation in rejecting the traditio...
On a hill, far away…
I grew up singing this song. I hear the melody in my head even as I write the words. The song teaches us that Jesus was crucified on top of a hill, far in the distance, but this might not have been the case. There stands a hill just outside the walls of Jerusalem. On its...
Doubt Lets the Grace In
Sometimes I doubt. That might be surprising, even disconcerting, to some. Is it normal for a Christian to doubt what he believes? Is it alright for a pastor to have doubts? I used to ask myself the same questions and wonder what was wrong with me -- why couldn't I atta...
Shelter Yourself
The other day I heard a mom telling another mom about some other mom’s kids. The third mom was not present. So you may be saying, “Stop right there. This is gossip. Tell me no more!” But it’s ok...I’m not gossiping; I’m just telling you about someone else who was gossiping...
A Rational Assessment of Roe v. Wade
This week marks the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion in the United States. Since that ruling, more than fifty million abortions have been performed in our nation. For those of us who believe the Bible to be God’s inerrant Word, that is no mere stati...
Lance Armstrong, Splitting, and Our Only Hope
The fall of cyclist Lance Armstrong has captured the attention of Americans like few other sports stories I can remember. (Even the bizarre tale of Manti Te'o only briefly distracted us from Armstrong's Oprah interview last week). Many people are wondering, "Who is this...
Global Outreach
I Choose to Follow Him
Many of you may not know that Grace regularly supports over 70 families and singles who have answered God's call to do full-time ministry either here in the United States or all over the globe. We have the privilege of hearing many stories about what God is doing around t...
