03/27/2015 — Few articles I’ve read recently have been as revealing of the current state of our higher education culture than this one in The New York Times March 21.

The author, Judith Shulevitz, deserves credit for exploring a dynamic that even the nation’s unofficial journal of political correctness finds disturbing. Normally I read the Times strictly for comic relief or opposition research, but I’m glad they published this illuminating piece.

Shulevitz describes in great detail how many of today’s college students become easily traumatized by points of view that contradict their own. Increasingly, though, many students are making unusual demands on their institutions. They are calling upon their colleges to go to indulgent extremes to protect them from those points of view. That got me thinking about whether the Church does something similar – and, if it does, whether it should. Read More

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07/15/2014 — At our recent Dominion Camp Meeting our senior elder, Bill Canfield, had a compelling conversation with a former Valor Christian College student and staff member who is now ministering in New Jersey. He and his wife are the parents of young children, and they wanted to go somewhere for spring break. They settled on our nation’s capital, and what this spiritual son of mine learned there and shared with Elder Canfield has stuck with me ever since.Read More

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06/25/2014 — The Bible is the only place I know of where one plus one does not equal two! The promise of Jesus in Matthew 18, that He is present in the midst of two or three believers, actually is spoken in the context of an important process called church discipline that many congregations, unfortunately, don't even pretend to practice anymore. But is it far-fetched to believe that He enters small groups of believers in other situations as well? I don't think so.Read More

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06/17/2014 — If you have memorized any single passage of Scripture, it's likely either the 23rd Psalm or The Lord's Prayer. But an intimate knowledge of what the text is can work against us when we try to understand what it means.

Last Sunday morning at World Harvest Church we joined hands and repeated The Lord's Prayer together – something that's not common for us, as it is in many churches – and I asked the members of our congregations to pray it often this week. When it is prayed reflectively, it can be a powerful guide for how to pray and how to live the Christian life. When we pray it on autopilot, though, it's little more than 65 words that allow us to check “pray” off our to-do list. So what should we understand about this popular passage?Read More

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06/10/2014 — Your parents may have made a mistake. But God did not! You were born on purpose, and with a purpose.

I don’t know what your purpose is, or how you will discover it. But I do know two things: 1) your purpose is designed to glorify God; and 2) your adversary the devil is determined to keep you from discovering, and ultimately fulfilling, your purpose.

Unless you’ve led an incredibly sheltered life, you know that the adversary will prevent you from fulfilling your purpose if he possibly can. And that’s a good sign, because if he’s bothering you it means that God has something important for you to do. Which means that the most important decision of your life is, who are you going to believe concerning your purpose – the God who created you, or the enemy of your soul?Read More

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