Christians have spent years asking whether particular technologies are good or bad. That question is not useless, but it is becoming too small. The more urgent question is what these technologies are teaching us to notice.
Churches rightly ask how to reach new people and disciple the next generation. Yet many overlook the faithful believers already sitting beside them, whose years of trusting Christ through loss and disappointment could encourage someone just beginning that journey.
This piece walks through 12 such paradoxes, from strength in weakness to greatness through service, showing why the Kingdom of God can feel so hard for the natural mind to grasp.
Gen Z isn't silent about Jesus — they talk about their faith more than any generation before them. But new research shows they're also the generation most likely to doubt God is listening. This piece explores what's behind that tension, drawing on Scripture, research, and one very personal story of a Sunday faith that didn't survive the rest of the week.
People who are regularly involved in small group Bible studies tend to score higher on measures of discipleship, according to a new analysis from Lifeway Research.
In many churches, Christianity has been reduced, not necessarily to something false or heretical, but to something much smaller than it is.
If people are not coming to Christ, then every other measure of health will eventually weaken.
There is something formative about physically engaging with a Bible.
These are not statistics of unbelief. They are statistics of silent belief.
The real problem isn’t the screens. The trouble is, we treat our children like interruptions rather than assignments; we’re exhausted and overworked; and we underestimate the spiritual battle taking place in our homes.
