In an email exchange with a pastor who uses our premarital workbook (1), he mentioned premarital counseling with a couple he wasn’t sure were Christians or who professed some belief, but their lives made him question their conversion. This is a common and likely perplexing situation for pastors. I started a reply with comments and […]

In her recent book, Sextinction, Debra Soh, a researcher and former Playboy Magazine columnist, digs into recently compiled data detailing the collapse of sexual intimacy among Gen Z compared to millennials, Gen X, and the Baby Boomers. She explains how Gen Z is experiencing a lack of intimacy that may spell demographic doom for the […]

But godliness with contentment is great gain –1 Timothy 6:6 Jeremiah Burroughs’ classic work The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment is one of those books that believers should put in their “to read regularly” rotation. It was pivotal in changing my paradigm for thinking about suffering, sanctification, and trust in God (who, as a Calvinist […]

A Decline in Traditional Values In the first three parts, I explained historian Edward Gibbon’s first four reasons why the Roman Empire fell. The first was a decline in art, which revealed the deeper issue of an immoral society that no longer valued the richness of true beauty. The second involved a focus on entertainment […]