We are living in the midst of a great cultural war which is trying to overthrow our beliefs, values, traditions, and our American history. Our minds are being besieged with radically different ways of looking at the world and our place in it.

“I’ll get even with you!”

Over fifty years ago the fire of the Spirit exploded, something mainstream Christianity had not experienced for a long time. Called the Charismatic Movement, it brought a spiritual awakening to millions of people around the world.

We live in a culture in decay, losing faith in God and discarding His ways. This faith has been the force behind our American character! We inherited a national tradition that is ultimately spiritual in origin — faith in God, in ourselves, in our nation, and in our future. (Stuart Miller, “U…

While in my mid-twenties (longer ago than I like to acknowledge), I received a call from my father-in-law, a pastor, asking if I would be willing to head the daily summer vacation Bible school at his church. How could I refuse? After all, this good man had given his beautiful daughter to me …

Most of us start longing for spring shortly after Christmas. And for many good reasons: the anticipation of returning songbirds, signs of new life bringing their annual previews of resurrection, flowers pushing up green hands through the still cold soil announcing brighter days ahead and wea…

Conflicting voices are swirling all around us. He’s lying! No, she is. Caught in the midst of craziness, we wonder which voice is telling the truth. Or does it even matter?

Not a week goes by that we don’t see Christianity and its values under attack. Recently it was Karen Pence, wife of our vice president, and Brian C. Buescher, an Omaha-based lawyer nominated to the U.S. District Court.

Nothing makes headlines like the weather. And this has been a headline already in this new year. Storms have ripped through this country and the world, causing floods, creating lakes in normally arid areas, igniting wildfires where protecting rain once fell predictably, birthing new deserts.

Many people feel lost for much of life. They do not know who they are or why they are here—they lack meaning and purpose for their own individual life.

Now that the message of peace on earth and good will toward men is neatly packed away with the Christmas decorations, we’re in danger of entering our annual relapse into business as usual. Though totally inconsistent with the message of the season we’ve been celebrating, this too often happens.

“No hope” may be the saddest words in any language. When I hear them, memory often transports me to my childhood and I’m listening to my grandmother tell us about the accident that ended my grandfather’s life.

Years ago, I would hear people pray, “Lord, get him!”—sometimes with judgmental vindictiveness. This troubled me, but I didn’t know why.

As you say hello to the new year, have you said goodbye to the old?

An email from a longtime friend puzzled me. He’s convinced that during a mid-’60s sermon he heard me say that, according to the Bible, we would never reach the moon. While pleased he remembered the sermon, I was concerned about his memory of a statement that wasn’t in it, especially since he…