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Homosexuality | I recently signed on with a new home energy supplier through a clean-cut representative who came to the door armed with graphs and rationales for why his company is better than the other start-ups scrambling for my…

President Obama meets in the Oval Office with his National Security team, including Avril Danica Haines (top right), in March.

Foxes in the henhouse

National Security |  “On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of men” (Psalm 12:8). From here on in, we steer a fine line between two verses:

Test your level of homophobia

Homosexuality |  “Homophobia” is an interesting term. It is an entire lecture in a word. “Homophobia” decides the issue before you can open your mouth to offer your…

Beware of ‘comfort care’

Beware of ‘comfort care’

Abortion |  A physician’s failure to help a baby struggling for life is comforting only to the physician

Being prepared for what Satan throws at us

Faith & Inspiration |  Recently, a Taiwanese family I know dropped by unexpectedly and asked if I would care to join them for a lecture series on spiritual warfare at Westminster…

The elusive wind blows where it wishes

The elusive wind blows where it wishes

Faith & Inspiration |  It’s Wednesday morning and a bright sunny day again, like yesterday. I hear the lawnmower guys next door, and my son happily went to work. That all might…

What would you do to live?

Faith & Inspiration |  In a heartbreaking story, a Plymouth, Mass., teenager died in March after eating half a store-bought cookie that had a little peanut oil in it. He had been…

Finding the sweet spot in a servant’s self-image

Faith & Inspiration |  One thing led to another, and I ended up knee-deep in my mother’s bedroom after emptying her two closets and every drawer in the dresser and bureau. What…

Leaning away from our sinful tendencies

Faith & Inspiration |  My kids say I am the least lazy person they know. But the truth is that I tend to laziness and it scares me, so I bend hard in the opposite direction. This…

How Satan uses the law

Faith & Inspiration |  Since he had the afternoon off from his job, I asked my son to go to my mother’s and help with her bills. He bristled at the command and said he didn’t…

God’s laws are never entrapments

Faith & Inspiration |  If you are lacking a pastime, you could sit at my parents’ living room window and watch all day as a police car stops and tickets unsuspecting motorists…

Do all our desires need to be satisfied?

Faith & Inspiration |  My daughter worked at a bagel shop in Oakland, Calif., and now and then a customer would walk in with a dog. She would explain to the human on the other end…

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