Today’s BreakPoint: Chris Nikic (who has Down Syndrome) Completes Ironman

Today’s BreakPoint: Chris Nikic (who has Down Syndrome) Completes Ironman More Importantly, He Bears God’s Image   This past weekend in Florida, 21-year-old Chris Nikic completed one of the most challenging feats in all of sports. The Ironman triathlon is a 2.4 mile swim, followed by a 112-mile bicycle ride, topped off by a full marathon, a 26.2 … More Today’s BreakPoint: Chris Nikic (who has Down Syndrome) Completes Ironman

Becoming Instruments of Peace in Times of Hatred: Go and Do Likewise

Becoming Instruments of Peace in Times of Hatred: Go and Do Likewise JOHN STONESTREET Christians are, according to Paul, reconciled in order to become reconcilers (2 Cor. 5). Though we know the brokenness in the world and in the human heart will not be fully overcome until the day every knee bows to Christ as … More Becoming Instruments of Peace in Times of Hatred: Go and Do Likewise

Rediscovering Truth

Rediscovering Truth “Truth. Love. Together” Begins Today JOHN STONESTREET  WITH DAVID CARLSON In February, the Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit on behalf of three female high school track athletes who are being forced to compete against biological males. During the oral arguments, the presiding judge demanded that ADF attorneys refer to the biologically male athletes as … More Rediscovering Truth

God Is Always at Work Behind the Scenes

God Is Always at Work Behind the Scenes Worldview Lessons from the Coronavirus Part 7 JOHN STONESTREET  WITH DAVID CARLSON Recently, a young woman walked into the Waterleaf pregnancy care center in Aurora, Illinois. She thought she had entered the Planned Parenthood clinic across the street. She asked for an abortion pill. What she got … More God Is Always at Work Behind the Scenes

Passover and the Discipline of Remembering

Passover and the Discipline of Remembering JOHN STONESTREET  WITH MARIA BAER  –  Friday 10 Apr 2020 It doesn’t happen every year, but this year it did. Yesterday, Maundy Thursday fell on the first full day of the Jewish Passover. What makes this an especially poignant convergence is that the meal we remember every Maundy Thursday, … More Passover and the Discipline of Remembering

How Christians Can Show Christ During the Coronavirus Crisis

How Christians Can Show Christ During the Coronavirus Crisis JOHN STONESTREET  WITH ROBERTO RIVERA Though the world has changed dramatically in the last few weeks, the call for Christians to be salt and light hasn’t. That’s one of the difficult things about our faith. The Biblical instruction is clear enough: Here’s what God is doing … More How Christians Can Show Christ During the Coronavirus Crisis

Handel’s—and Jennens’s—“Messiah”

I think most of us have her of George Frideric Handel , but prior to reading this I had no knowledge of Charles Jennens. – Mike Handel’s—and Jennens’s—“Messiah” Apologetics Through Art As one wag put it, “In the orchestra world, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is every bit an annual Christmas tradition as eggnog and overworked shopping mall Santas.” … More Handel’s—and Jennens’s—“Messiah”