“When people are in a crisis, they often look for scapegoats to blame and they become more wary and even fearful of people not like themselves,” Rick Warren says. He believes the global pandemic has exacerbated the sin of partiality in our world.

"But it’s not so simple to get over sexual violation. Recovery takes years of stops and starts, and forgiveness is not a one-time easy decision..."

There is an acute pain for those who lost their job through no fault of their own. Because this is my story, it has given me a fresh perspective on what millions of others are going through right now since they've lost their job.

Of course, this global lockdown affects us all differently. We live under widely varying regulations in different countries or even in different counties within the same country. But there are some things you can pray for your pastor—regardless of his circumstance.

Sometimes being a patriot means we haven't examined the spiritual formations of our love of country.

The following reflection is written with all of these past and present realities in mind. Horatio Spafford, after losing four daughters in a tragic Atlantic Ocean shipwreck, he lamented his “sorrows like sea billows” through the writing of a now-famous hymn, “It Is Well With My Soul.”

Do you have kids in your ministry that are easily distracted? Welcome to the distracted generation.

Don't let the truth (and power) of Pentecost remain stuck in history. It's for today as well.