The online dating website eHarmony launched in the year 2000 as the first algorithm-based dating site. The platform is built on the assumption that compatibility is the most significant factor for mar...  Read More

What does your life run on? If your day was a battery commercial, what would you be selling? The Apostle Paul’s answer is something durable and long-lasting. In Philippians 4:4, he emphatically calls ...  Read More

This message was delivered at a memorial service held for Donald Heck in Kadoka, South Dakota. Don was the father of Susan Thune, and the grandfather of Nick, Logan, and Jett Thune. Don died on Februa...  Read More

Malachi 2:15 reveals one of God’s own aims for human marriage: “Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring.”In marriage, G...  Read More

All day, every day, you are making distinctions between good and bad. You are making determinations about what would be good or bad in a given circumstance, and then acting accordingly. How do you kno...  Read More

There are many opportunities for us to gather together as the church during the week, but what happens on Sunday—well, there is nothing like it. On Sunday, we are surrounded by others who are tasting ...  Read More

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader begins with the memorable line, “There once was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” And while he almost deserved that name, there was someth...  Read More

Memorizing Scripture is a fruitful practice. If you’re not one of those people blessed with photographic memory, this may be a daunting and difficult practice, but the rewards make it worthwhile.James...  Read More

Out of the 3 books I set out to read so you don’t have to, I knew that Jesus & John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez was going to be the most intense. With a subtitle How White Evangelicals Corrupted a F...  Read More

Moving from Aimee Byrd’s book to the more recent The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr was not only a shift in time (2021) but in tone. Right from the introductory chapter, it is clear...  Read More

Out of the 3 books I plan to review, this one is clearly the most serious. What do I mean by “most serious”? This book is not shrill or whiny, but actually attempts to make a real Scriptural argument....  Read More

It has been said before and will likely continue to be said: we live in a confused world. Of course, confusion and chaos has been a category since the Fall, but it seems as though we have entered into...  Read More