Fighting gay marriage like it’s killing civilization seems inconsistent amid cultural curses like adultery, groundless divorce, and pornography—all hetero and legal.

Accountability isn’t just weekly meetings with a “partner.”

It also means having friends who’ll punch your face when you need them to.

If a tragedy left you utterly destitute, would you rather a friend pray for you or give you $200 and a job?

When doubting, I’m sometimes nervous to ask God to explain what I wonder. I’m afraid he actually will.

So is that doubt?

Definitions change. No problem.

Meaning is about ideas; it’s not about any specific, pronounceable lists of English letters.

Our lexicon isn’t sacred.

1. STDs
2. Philosophy
3. Freeloading
4. Incarceration
5. Vagabondage
6. Whiskey binges
7. Illegitimate children
8. Pack-a-day smoking
9. Successful rockstardom
10. Getting run over by a train

What’s your list?

Tactics that make the gospel memorable are worthwhile—if they’re truly for the message, not the messenger.

More at The Evangelical Outpost.

Seen these bumper stickers?

Recently, Pastor Sam sagaciously noted that if you are outraged, you’re not paying attention.

Something to think about.

Excepting Piper, I’ve read only four T4G-approved books.

I’m no pastor. Still, I wonder if a list like this pigeonholes pastoral intellect.

We’d have no access to God if we couldn’t talk about him as if he were more like us than he is.

Understanding teenage rebellion only as sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll implies that the goal is celibacy, sobriety, and employment. It’s not.

It’s Jesus.

We teach Orison to always mention something that’s amazing about God during mealtime prayers. So, today:

You made my drum set.

Amen.

(My entry in the 2008 EO/Wheatstone Academy Symposium)

The onus of defense isn’t on the proponents of new media; it’s on the antagonists who would limit how the gospel spreads.

(A guest post from my brother Barnabas Piper)

God created us to think in a certain way, but that does not necessarily mean he thinks the same way we do.

Let’s aim for goodness. If we succeed consistently, great.

But why value consistency itself? We could just as easily be consistently bad.

When Christians at conferences overwhelm a bar/restaurant it’s an opportunity to blow minds with Christ-centered generosity.

Tip high and buy drinks.

23 suggestions for when you’re visiting hospitals.

#2: Speak aloud Psalm 34 changing the words to work for the patient

#16: Cry.

If I insist on understanding something before I’ll let myself think it’s good, then almost everything will be ruled out, including God.

Should our objective when we’re arguing be to convince others of our position or to discover what’s true, regardless of who “wins”?

Last week I heard Hemant Mehta speak about “selling his soul on eBay.” He offers a winsome outsider’s perspective on Christian subculture.

When doubts creep in, they nag me the worst as I reassure Orison with utmost gravity that Jesus is real and near.

The real line: “You broke the chains. You rose to life.”

Orison, unwittingly: “Jesus, you broke my heart, you raised the chains.”

I generally prefer the prodigal to his sibling.

Apparently, a slovenly lech is more likable than a character that strikingly resembles me.

We sat near some encouragingly awful singers at church yesterday—vociferous and atonal, contentedly disregarding everybody but the One they were serenading.

Sometimes I confuse grace with subtlety, gentleness, and conciliation, but isn’t God’s grace just as often blatant, aggressive, and even flat-out inflammatory?