Dana Dill Imagine walking into a room on a cold morning. The air bites a little, so you glance at the thermometer and it tells you the room is 58 degrees. But the thermometer doesn’t change a thing. It just reflects the environment. The thermostat, however, quietly kicks on the heat and begins t...

Dana Dill It isn’t uncommon to think God betrays us when life gets hard. However, those taught by the Word know that hardships are gifts from God for our maturation (James 1:2-3), opportunities to share in Christ’s suffering and grow closer to him (1 Peter 4:12-19), and means of making us more l...

Brett Kunkle Article was originally published in the Christian Research Journal, volume 41, number 4 (2018) and again in the Christian Research Institute in 2020. Generation Z — the 70 million kids born between 1999 and 2015 — is another testament to our culture’s alarming slide into secula...

Dana Dill Often, in Christian testimonies, one’s conversion experience takes center stage. Usually, with cool lights, soft music, and a little fog, the circumstance, emotions, and sensations of the event are described in great, gut-wrenching detail. Whenever testimonies are called for, more airt...

Brett Kunkle A few years ago, I read a Christianity Today article titled “Go Overboard Celebrating Christmas.” A provocative title, especially given the Evangelical tendency to decry materialism and consumerism this time of year. Of course, those warnings are important to heed, but sometimes war...

Dana Dill I am unapologetically pro-life. You should be too. Every human life is precious at every stage, from womb to tomb. Because we are made in the image of the glorious God, every person possesses unshakable worth and is owed life, liberty, and the pursuit of joy in Him. To intentionally ki...

Brett Kunkle I hear a lot of talk about mystery in the Church but I don’t hear it carefully defined. When most Christians talk about mystery in relation to God they mean something like “that which ultimately cannot be known about God.” As a result, a dichotomy is set up between the mysterious ex...

Dana Dill I have heard a lot of preaching. As a Youth Pastor, I trained multiple interns to teach the Bible and listened carefully to all their messages. As a Professor, I teach a course on teaching the Bible where I evaluate dozens of students’ teachings each semester. As a Christian, I listen ...

Dana Dill It seems almost everybody likes Jesus. He honored in pop culture, revered in every major religion in the world, and honored even among the most irreverent. You’ll be hard pressed to find people who don’t like Jesus or see him positively in some light. However, Christians go beyond lik...

Brett Kunkle Learn to spot the non-sequiturs atheists sometimes use to argue against Christianity. “Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.” So says Richard Dawkins, author of the God Delusion and godfather to ...