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1. How Baby Boomers Created Today's Millennial Snowflakes

... ess and fatigue are parts of life. In every culture, in every tiny village and in the teeming population centers stress is part of life. Work is part of life. Whether it is carrying crushing loads up  ...

Created on 09 August 2017

2. The Bible's Cure for American Church's Identity Crisis

... oncept of "Christian LGBT." "The Christian church is just reflecting today's culture of the USA," some will say. Is that what the church is supposed to reflect, or is that, more correctly, a refraction?  ...

Created on 27 July 2017

3. Helping Your Teen Stand Firm in Our Anti-God Culture

Teenagers today live in a very different culture from the one our parents or their parents grew up in. With this new culture comes so many good things, but it also brings with it a flood of unprecedented ...

Created on 20 July 2017

4. Why the Church Needs to Use Spiritual Warfare on This Cultural Epidemic

In 1918 a new strain of influenza emerged which eventually killed as many as 100 million people. Unlike most illnesses, most of the victims were young and healthy. The reason for this mystery was soon ...

Created on 18 July 2017

5. Is a New Cultural Agenda Possible Under Trump?

...  matters such as homosexuality. "After the campus upheavals and the anti-war movement of the 1960s," Aikman says, "the entire culture began to experience a shift that introduced new worldviews, in Hollywo ...

Created on 14 July 2017

6. One Sure Way to Avoid Spiritual Schizophrenia

... ds without compromise in the face of a culture corrupted with the depravity of things God calls an abomination. Filled with the assurance of their true identity they steadfastly resist the strong delus ...

Created on 05 July 2017

7. Using Worship to Equip Your Child to Resist the Devil

Music is one of the most powerful influencers in the world. Music has the power to transport listeners to another place—it evokes deep emotion, celebration or mourning. Music can be a conduit of healing, ...

Created on 26 June 2017

8. The Church Must Learn These 4 Things to Influence Culture

The Jewish people were facing a very real threat. There was a growing hatred of their moral values. Their belief systems and family values were contrary to the culture. More and more people saw them as ...

Created on 23 June 2017

9. Why Our Nation Is Ripe for Another Cultural Revolution

... ke Pictures, has had the opportunity to work on some great documentaries and media projects that required research on great men of faith who lived through challenging cultures and difficult times—Will ...

Created on 09 June 2017

10. What Jesus Would Say to Our Culture's Modernized Gospel

... owers to engage and transform culture (Matt. 5:13-16)—not run from it and build little subcultures while waiting for the rapture. In regards to simplicity, Colossians 2:3 teaches that all treasures of  ...

Created on 12 May 2017

11. A Surprising Lesson Doc Holiday Can Teach You About Your Trials

Near the end of the movie Tombstone, Wyatt Earp tells his friend Doc Holiday that he just wants a "normal life." Holiday's response is classic. "There's no such thing as normal life. There's just life." ...

Created on 09 May 2017

12. Will You Answer the Urgent Call to Prayer for This Scientific Trend?

Astronomers have reported an alarming drop in sunspot activity and are warning of the possibility of the return of the Maunder Minimum leading to global cooling. The last period of low sunspot activity ...

Created on 02 May 2017

13. Why Culture Refuses to Acknowledge This Plumb Line

... is embracing a more tolerant approach to alternative lifestyles. Culture, however, cannot determine what is good and what is evil. A young man came running to Jesus one day. He must have been anxious about ...

Created on 28 April 2017

14. Does This Pagan Holiday Reveal Our Culture's Addiction to the Occult?

Next week, on May 1, we mark a pagan holiday which has been celebrated from the most ancient of times until the present. The European druids celebrated May 1 as "Beltane", a holiday named after their god ...

Created on 26 April 2017

15. This Prevalent Lie Feeds the Stronghold of Rejection

... e been a joke. You don't belong. Nothing good ever happens. Why do I even try?  This is the lie of our culture. That we are not enough. As a result, we waste time and energy on thoughts and feeling th ...

Created on 13 April 2017

16. Billy Hallowell's 'Fault Line' Tells How to Engage Culture

... onal institutions have become bastions of those with an agenda to impose a new worldview on our culture—a worldview that is anything but Christian and often hostile to Christianity. For me, some of the  ...

Created on 15 March 2017

17. 7 Bold Strategies to Turn the Tide of Evil in America

... their literature and adopted a ministry style that was more inclusive and inviting. They contextualized their sermons to the culture, seeking to be more tolerant of those with a different lifestyle and rel ...

Created on 24 February 2017

18. Spreading Contagious Hope in a Despairing Culture

...  are culture-makers by our very nature, and that sometimes this can work against us if our preferences and our priorities outweigh the presence of God. We are charged to strengthen the life and faith o ...

Created on 15 February 2017

19. One Thing That Could Effectively End Abortion in America

Planned Parenthood is to America what the Nazi gas chambers were to Hitler's Germany. (It's not women being forced into the death chambers—it's babies). Hitler dehumanized the Jews and convinced the Germans ...

Created on 01 February 2017

20. What You're Ultimately Chasing if You're Not Chasing Jesus

There are many things in this world that constantly pull and beg for our attention, our heart, our worship and our souls. The battle for our heart that takes place each and every day is an active one and ...

Created on 12 January 2017