As the Russian invasion of Ukraine drags into its third year, there are reports from credible sources that North Korean troops are fighting for Russia. Russian President Putin has consciously avoided imposing the full costs of this conflict onto the upper and middle classes of his country, particularly in Moscow and St. Petersburg. He has chosen instead to call in...

　　Life in the Fast Lane 　　This devotional was written by Jim Burns 　　The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. —Exodus 14:14 　　Far too many of us live in what some people call crisis mode living. This lifestyle is when you spend most every waking moment of almost every day trying to figure how to keep...

　　From the Overflow of the Heart 　　By Michelle Lazurek 　　Bible Reading: 　　“You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” – Matthew 12:34 　　Ministry life has its share of ups and downs. In the 25 years that I've been in the pastoral ministry, we've had some...

　　What Does Sabbath Look Like for You? (Genesis 2:2-3) 　　By: Amanda Idleman 　　By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day, he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had...

　　In sports, as in life, it often does pay to break the rules. In baseball, the Houston *stros improperly used electronics to steal signs, won the World Series, and received little more than a gentle pat on the wrist. In football, Bill Belichick, the New England Patriots’ former coach, spied on opponents and deflated footballs on his way to multiple...

　　Don’t Just Hear Your Spouse, Listen 　　By: Betsy St. Amant Haddox 　　Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger… -James 1:1-19 (ESV) 　　Listening can be tough. Oh sure, we hear all day long. We hear our spouses talking about their day, we hear our children telling that fifteen-minute-long story from...

　　America’s central economic problem is preserving the nations capacity to sustain growth vigorous enough to counteract an impending fiscal crisis of escalating national debt. Part of the reason that growth has declined in the last decades is the stifling force of over-regulation. The new administration’s sweeping agenda for regulatory rollback thus need not represent merely political posturing, but has the...

　　Our foreign policy debates today exceed in intensity those of the past four generations. This is not to say our debates are nastier—they have always been impolite—but rather that they cut to the core of the purpose of American foreign policy in a way that more recent debates have not. At the most basic level, the issue under question is...

　　Wednesday, March 12, 2025 　　The Unlikely Candidate 　　“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’” (1 Samuel 16:7 NLT) 　　David was a complex person. He was a warrior...

　　For decades, the administrative state has justified the accumulation of vast powers on the grounds of supposedly impartial expertise. In his new book, Over Ruled: The Human Toil of Too Much Law, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch argues that overregulation is choking nearly every aspect of American life, and it proves the danger of bureaucratic centralization. In this symposium, two...

　　A Prayer When You Have Lost All Hope 　　Written by: Vivian Bricker, Read by: Lia Girard 　　Bible Reading: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” - Romans 15:13 　　Read or Listen Below: 　　Whenever I’m struggling with...

　　One of the most famous elements from Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is his discussion of “soft despotism.” Tocqueville’s description of soft despotism is familiar—“despotism of this kind does not ride roughshod over humanity,” “it does not tyrannize”—and the immediate result is that the nation is reduced “to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals...