When the world poses challenging questions, what are we telling the kids?

The fairy-tale nature of my life (and maybe yours, too) should not be a diversion from the need to acknowledge and respond to stress, especially as our response to stress presents an opportunity for followers of Christ to grow closer to him and to exhibit his hope to a world awash with stress.

Editor Eric Black reviews “Last Call for Liberty” by Os Guinness.

Texas Baptists can be a lot of fun when they come together as they did this week at the Family Gathering in Arlington. As friends reunited, one might have heard Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World:” “I see friends shaking hands, saying, ‘How do you do?’ They’re really saying, ‘I love you.’”

Jesus, who commanded us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, is interested in how well we relate to people of different cultures. If we are to obey his command to make disciples of all people, then we must learn to interact with people from different cultures.

Editor Eric Black reviews “One in Christ” by David D. Ireland.

“In an age of misdirection, it is critical we know who defines truth, faith and salvation.”

This week marked my son’s last summer of children’s camp. Next year, he begins the glorious (cough) teenage years. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Despite their mutual need for one another, local Baptist churches simply do not want any outside influence telling them what to do, regardless of how serious the issue is that’s facing them. As a result, they seem to be tugging at the fabric of their congregational and denominational existence.

Christians should be wary when a government seeks to connect our spiritual freedom in Christ with religious freedom in service of government ends.

If you ever forget who you are, you will be like a rootless tree. But if you remember who you are and delight in the Lord who made you, you will be “like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.”

Churches who disagree on substantive issues find common ground in criticizing the results of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Illumination Project, in particular the changes to the CBF hiring policy regarding LGBT individuals.