Miracles are supposed to point us to Him, but we can get to God without miracles. It is God himself we should long for rather than for the miracles that point to him. To get caught up in wanting miracles is a bit like thinking the destination of a road trip is the highway you're supposed to take.

Quite simply, our isolation from nature has become isolation from God's Word. Cocooned in our manmade world of climate-controlled homes, cars, subways, and high-rises, we're finding it easier to live as practical atheists.

Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun.

The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.

I came to the conclusion over time that Trump is not the person I feared he was in the beginning when I was against him.

Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free.

Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important - especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself to us in the written words of Scripture. Think about it: when we read the Word, we place ourselves in the very presence of God.

If you accept my thesis that the universe and this earth are the most outrageous miracles by an infinite margin, then you will understand that simply for us to exist requires a miracle.

The freedoms we have enjoyed in America - and spread around the world - are incredibly fragile freedoms.

Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'

For many of us, this is very painful, pulling the lever for someone many think odious. But please consider this: A vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself. It is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election. Not to vote is to vote. God will not hold us guiltless.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

Trump errs on the side of bluster sometimes for effect, but I don't think that the people who voted for him, most of them, would ever be for not caring for immigrants or refugees. People in the church know it's our obligation.

Here's one thing the media and all of us should learn: Trump is not wrong nearly as much as everybody says he's wrong.

Every single cell in each person's body tells us whether that person is a male or a female. There is no human being in history whose cells have some mixture of the two, nor anyone who has ever been able to change that cellular reality.

We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.

Work allows us to take care of God's creation and bring glory to Him as His stewards.

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.

Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.

Miracles seem to attest to the presence of a loving and compassionate God, one who wants to help us, who wants to speak to us and encourage us.

God designed humans to live in community.

When Trump says America first, it doesn't mean cheering for America only. It means if you want to care for your neighbors, you have to make sure that you are yourself, first, healthy.

One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy.

Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.

Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.

It's one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.

Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world.

Donald Trump's rise is certainly a symptom of our fading virtue and faith, but ironically, he may well be our only hope for finding our way back to bolder expressions of them.

No politician has ever used his faith to a greater result for all of humanity, and that is why, in his day, Wilberforce was a moral hero far more than a political one.

When you have a biblical idea of men's strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others.

Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives.

Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship.

Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.

To be labeled a 'science-denier' in 2017 often just means you've upset someone who insists on teaching strict, Darwinian orthodoxy in schools or who advocates particular climate legislation or who supports ethically fraught research on embryos.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.

If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong.

The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us, challenge us, or inspire anew as truly original work can.

For at least a decade, Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, and stuck on social media. While that may not be entirely fair, they are notoriously liberal, overwhelmingly supporting left-leaning candidates and favoring policies like nationalized healthcare and same-sex 'marriage.'

We all have different strengths, different gifts.

Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.

Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.

A Christian worldview impacts every area of life. Including making your house a home.

Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.

Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy.

You can't fool children.

In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.

Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.

America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.

Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him.