By David Faust Temptation is “common to mankind” (1 Corinthians 10:13), and we’re all at risk. Temptation threatens our commitment to maintain our bodies as “temples of the Holy Spirit” (6:19). It threatens our attitudes when we toy with “hollow and deceptive philosophy” and fail to set our minds “on things above” (Colossians 2:8, […]
By Alan Dowd To get an idea of how sex-soaked our culture is, try to look at life from the perspective of an innocent child of, say, 6 years of age. He is bombarded by suggestive, sexualized images: the magazines at the grocery store checkout, TV shows celebrating the hookup culture, the way women […]
By Danny R. Von Kanel Many Christians function with unfinished spaces in their walk with the Lord. My efforts to fill unfinished spaces in my life have required an understanding of what to put in and what to take out. The following principles have been helpful to me and I pray they will be […]
By Sam E. Stone God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the Garden of Eden. Everything was perfect. All too quickly, however, the first humans sinned (Genesis 3). Soon their son Cain sinned too (Genesis 4). The next chapter of Genesis records the genealogy from Adam to Noah. Chapter 5 concludes, “After […]
By Christy Barritt Researchers Discover Surprising Facts About Atheists Researchers from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga recently completed a study on the various types of nonbelievers. One of the most surprising results they discovered was the classification of a “ritual” atheist or agnostic, someone they defined as a nonbeliever who found value in […]
