Dear Friend, In October, you read about the decisions of the Board of the Presbyterian Lay Committee that affects you as a reader and a donor. First, let me thank you again for your prayerful and financial partnership in Layman.org. Certain aspects of the ministry will be discontinued but the forward press of the mind…
After considering how we speak the Truth of God’s Word into a confused culture, the board of the Presbyterian Lay Committee announces the renaming and reorganizing of the ministry as Reformation Press, a media ministry impressing the mind of Christ into the culture by informing and equipping Christians to speak the mind of Christ on…
These are the days that make people ask, “what’s wrong with the world?” People all around us are seeking hope, healing and meaning. God is setting out divine appointments for each of us. We may not know all the answers or have everything figured out. All we need to do is be faithful. This is…
Today has been marked on my calendar for some time: September, 25, 2017, the release of my first book: Speak the Truth: How to Bring God Back into Every Conversation. The message of Speak the Truth has been in my head and on my heart for a long time, and I am excited to finally share it with…
We are the ambassadors of Jesus Christ in the world today. This is our mission field, this is our time and we cannot be silent. Some thoughts on the events of the last week and the Christian’s response to racism. Also Listen to The Reconnect’s Spotlight interview with Jemar Tisby: After Charlottesville, How will the White…
There is a war going on… In the cosmos … between the God who is goodand God’s adversary, Satan In the world… between the people of God and our Enemy, the devil. Consider the visible evidence of evil at work around us. In every human heart … there is notable evidenceof the battle within us…
The resurrection as the epicenter of Christianity: “You shall be my witnesses.” Calvin Miller describes the resurrection of Jesus Christ as the epicenter of Christianity – an epicenter that is both personal and universal. Read: Resurrection reality
Both of their faces were stained with tears. The older woman holding the younger. They were rocking slightly. Their shared grief was palpable. I knew neither of them well but I knew that the younger woman had just watched as her son was buried. This was a grief to which I would attend as a…
Why is it so easy to accept some substitutes but not others? This time of year, the Easter Bunny gets a free pass. But the acceptance of Jesus as the one all-sufficient substitutionary atonement for the humanity’s Sin faces continual opposition. There is no Christianity without the Cross; and there is no Cross without the…
The account of the arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane ends with these words: “Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.” Read Matthew 26:47-56. Have you ever felt abandoned when you really needed someone on your side? That’s where Jesus stands at the end of this text — alone in the midst of a…