Insight for Today's culture

Ministry through Media with Alex Kendrick [Podcast]

When we think of ministry, we generally think of what goes on inside the local church. Websters defines ministry as a person or thing through which something is accomplished. So it is possible that accomplishing true Christian ministry might be best accomplished outside the local church.

So could movies, music and other tools outside the local church be effective tools of ministry? Could they actually help us be more efficient and effective inside the walls of the church? Today, we speak with someone who is doing just that. Alex …

Silent Night [One Minute Feature]

Today’s youth seem to have an admiration for the idea of socialism. I believe it stems from the ideology that we should all be helping one-another. Which is a noble reason.

Socialism, however, is more nuanced than the simple idea of helping support your neighbor.

Jesus is King: Part III [One Minute Feature]

Today, I’ll be continuing the discussion about Kanye West’s recent Christian conversion. If you missed parts I and II of this series, I’d encourage you to go back and take a listen. You can find previous episodes in the minute feature archives.

We’ve discussed approaching Kanye’s Christian conversion with caution. How can we tell, however, if this conversion is real? What signs should we look for?

Jesus is King: Part II [One Minute Feature]

Previously we discussed the recent conversion of Kanye West to Christianity. If you haven’t listened to part I of the “Jesus is King” series, you can find it here.

Kanye West, one of Hollywood’s resident bad boys, has become a Christian. That’s what we’re told anyway. How much of his celebrity status has influenced Christians to throw caution to the wind with accepting his recent conversion?

Jesus is King [One Minute Feature]

Kanye West is now a Christian, but he’s said that before. How do we approach this new-found faith?

We may need to approach this new Kanye with caution, as it wasn’t too long ago that he was proclaiming to be a god himself. That doesn’t mean, however, that his conversion can’t be real.

Raising Kids in a Divided America with Jackie Gingrich Cushman [Podcast]

When you watch the evening news these days, our country is looking more and more like one great big dysfunctional family. Like many family arguments that descend into pointless and relationship-destroying quarrels, it seems that nobody is really looking for the objective truth anymore. Winning an argument becomes preeminent. And, this is no better.

Our nation’s political climate has become emblematic of what should be our preeminent and most basic form of government. And this government is found under the roofs of virtually every home in America today. It’s traditionally been called the nuclear …

Thanks Be to God [One Minute Feature]

Most of us think we know everything about the Thanksgiving holiday. It was a day where pilgrims and Indians put aside their differences to get through the harsh winter together.

As great of a story as that is, it’s not, however, the whole picture. Thanksgiving wasn’t instituted as a holiday until much later, and the reason for the holiday didn’t end with the pilgrims and the Indians.