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Now what?

January 8, 2021 By Dr. Erwin Lutzer

Dr. Erwin Lutzer

Editor’s note: Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church, Chicago, IL, where he served as the Senior Pastor for 36 years. The storming of our Capitol on January 6, is a reminder that good and evil, as Solzhenitsyn taught us, does not run between political parties but right through every human […]

Agents of reconciliation in 2021

January 8, 2021 By David S. Dockery

Editor’s note: David Dockery is theologian-in-residence at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and former president of Trinity International University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill. Perhaps in recent weeks you have been given the opportunity to sing “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” one of Charles Wesley’s great Christmas carols. The angels sing, “Glory to […]

Real change in the new year

January 1, 2021 By Mark McCormick

Question: I want to develop healthier habits in the new year, including setting aside time for the Lord and getting more sleep. How should I get started and avoid flaming out in a few weeks? Answer: Godly life changes should be encouraged no matter what time of year we choose to make them. Unfortunately, recent […]

Stretching, growing, learning

December 28, 2020 By Nate Adams

Most of us are welcoming 2021 into our lives with a special enthusiasm, eager to say good-bye to a 2020 filled with pandemic pain and inconvenience as well as political, racial, and economic turmoil. We are all ready for a fresh start. But of course fresh starts are birthed out of past experiences. We are […]

Learning from 1918’s quiet Christmas

December 10, 2020 By Eric Reed

Christmas star

They called the holiday of December 1918 “the peace Christmas.” A truce had been declared. With the armistice announced, the shooting had stopped at 11 a.m. on November 11. Although the agreements to end The Great War were not yet signed, the world sighed relief that the confrontation that consumed Europe and 18 million war […]

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Crisis can bring clarity. When I first heard that simple observation from a friend, its truth immediately resonated with me. A crisis has a way of demanding our attention and diminishing the less important things in our lives. The result can be a clearer vision of what truly is important to us. In other words, […]

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Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised, but it hurts to read the numbers. A faith foundation built on the exclusivity of Christ in salvation is shifting under the feet of teens and young adults. A new poll by the Barna Group shows a growing number of young people say there’s more than one way to get […]

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Baptist Press will publish interviews with each of the four announced candidates for SBC president. The Illinois Baptist newspaper will excerpt the interviews as they are released and will also publish the excerpts here. Messengers will elect the next president of the SBC at the denomination’s annual meeting June 15-16 in Nashville. Ed Litton   […]

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Grace Family Church celebrated its second anniversary in early 2021 with a worship service in the Art Deco theater they’ve called home for the last few months. But the young church has already been planted twice. At least, that’s how it feels to Pastor Jorge Rodriguez. Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Rodriguez later lived in Chicago […]

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