Bryce Wenger
The Mystery and Glory of the Church [Todd Neuschwander]
As any regular attender knows, church is a messy business. God meant well, we admit, but painful divisions and disappointing imperfections seem to jam the gears at every turn. Perhaps church is not really so necessary after all, we think. Perhaps God made a mistake. Yet in spite of all…
The Making of Biblical Womanhood [Beth Allison]
Some readers may be familiar with the current fight over female pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention. The Making of Biblical Womanhood, a recent release by Baptist and historian Beth Allison Barr, claims to prove that evangelicals invented biblical womanhood to subjugate women. This month we take a look at…
The Greener Grass Conspiracy [Steven Altrogge]
We have everything – stocked refrigerators and overflowing garages and peaceful democracy – but contentment can be hard to come by. That’s because discontentment, according to Steven Altrogge, is a big conspiracy by Satan, the world, and our hearts to keep us looking for happiness in all the wrong places.…
The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life [Jeremy Pierre]
Biblical counseling sometimes gets caricatured as “take two verses and call me in the morning.” If we’re honest, sometimes there is a bit of truth to that critique. It’s easy to say that the man who yells at his wife has an anger problem or that the teen struggling with…
The Company We Keep [Jonathan Holmes]
Believers share the common bond of the Spirit as brothers and sisters in Christ. Why then does our conversation after the sermon or over dinner so often linger in temporal things – work, weather, or the price of hamburger? Shouldn’t Christian friendships go deeper than this? I recently read The…
The Big Disconnect [Catherine Steiner-Adair]
Growing up, my media intake was confined to a handful of games on the family desktop or the rare movie on our tiny, black VCR. My parents chose to limit our digital connection and our family was the better for it. Anabaptists have typically approached technology with reservation, but in…
Teach Them Diligently [Lou Priolo]
All parents want to raise well-adjusted, successful children. (For Christians, that means more than just making them finish their broccoli or do their homework; it means teaching them to know the Lord). But parenting, like so much of life, does not begin with a practice session in the shallow end.…
Surviving the Tech Tsunami [Gary Miller]
In 2007, the IPhone revolutionized cell phone technology. Now 15 years later, it’s almost hard to remember the world without apps, touchscreens, and fast internet. In the few short decades of its existence, the internet has torn down our world and built it anew. Surviving the Tech Tsunami, by Gary…
Street Smarts [Gregory Koukl]
When was the last time you shared the gospel with an unbeliever? I know a handful of people who do this well—they can strike up conversations with perfect strangers at the grocery store and effortlessly turn the conversation toward Jesus. Yet for myself (and I suspect most Christians can relate)…
Spiritual Warfare in the Storyline of Scripture [Chuck Lawless; William F. Cook III]
We’ve all heard the cliché description of a Christian who sees a demon behind every bush. Rightly, we try to avoid that “devil made me do it” mentality. But we dare not forget “our adversary, the devil” who waits to pounce on our souls, though perhaps not from behind the…
Shrewd Samaritan [Bruce Wydick]
As Christians in the age of globalization, the problem of world poverty is no longer comfortably out of reach. We find ourselves asking, like the lawyer of Jesus’ day, “who is my neighbor?” Yet the answers to poverty are complex and our response is often simplistic. Shrewd Samaritan, by Bruce…
Sacrifice or Penalty [Keith Crider]
We Anabaptists pride ourselves in being People of the Book. Unlike many Christian denominations, we dress modestly, practice the head covering, and follow Jesus’ teaching from the Sermon on the Mount. Yet when it comes to the nuts and bolts of our theology, we don’t always understand why we believe…
