"Because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever" (2 John 1:2). We keep time many ways. A clock can tell us the minutes and hours of a day. A calendar offers us a glance at a year. A hist...

"Greet the friends by name" (3 John 1:14). One defining experience of my life was losing a close friend when I was in the seventh grade. One of my friends, a high school sophomore at the time, was hit by a c...

"Remember your Creator in the days of your youth" (Ecc. 12:1, NIV). One of the most difficult aspects of being a teenager is having a limited perspective. In other words, teens have difficulty with seeing a ...

"If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success" (Ecc. 10:10, NIV). When I was a boy, my father frequently sent me out in the summertime to chop down small ...

Eric Metaxas Thomas Nelson, 2015, 265 pp., $14.99 Where do we teach theology in youth ministry today? Dietrich Bonhoeffer is an excellent place to begin, and Eric Metaxas offers a student-friendly, readable...

"A good name is better than fine perfume" (Ecc. 7:1). Some years ago a prominent televangelist and national leader was disgraced by the revelation of many improprieties and weaknesses of character. More re...

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What Invading Spiders Can Teach Us About Fear Get downloadable PDF. Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation. About/Disclaimer. What Happened It's two months before Halloween, but no ma...

With 23 states having approved medicinal marijuana use and four legalizing pot outright, many were worried that teen use of the drug would soar. However, according to a study published in Lancet Psychiatry, tee...

After Dylann Roof murdered nine people at the historic Emanuel AME church in Charleston, S.C., many southern states have been removing the Confederate battle flag from its capitol buildings. Now, several southe...