What effect the experience that led to the song Why Me, Lord? had is unknown, but Kris never wanted to identify himself as an evangelical musician.

We need food, shelter, friendship, purpose and more, but maybe all these needs fold into just two: bios and zoë, physical life and spiritual life.

“Young people have lost hope and the meaning of life […] The authority of the Bible must be restored”, says a Finnish Christian doctor and writer.

We have probably all made some, or all, of these mistakes.

Learning to think clearly about your own thinking is a critical skill for the preacher. Study more. Study longer. Study humble. Study persistently.

In Ukraine the New Year celebration has always been more important than Christmas. This year is different, more people are focusing on Christmas and its meaning.

As we head towards another Christmas, let’s be sure to ponder the wonder of that first Christmas and the daily wonder of a God who moved toward us.

Preaching goes way beyond clarification of the meaning of words. But it won’t go anywhere if it bypasses this critical element of the task.

The spiritual gravitas and countless other personal and ministry benefits only come from diligent exegetical labour.

A report of the Social and Cultural Planning Office shows that only 33% say they believe in God. But “believers experience more meaningfulness than non-believers”.

Let’s keep prayerfully pondering how we can explain the meaning of the text in a way that is clear, helpful, instructive and not distracting.

The outline is an overview of your strategy for communicating the biblical idea relevantly to the hearts of your listeners.

Let’s resolve, prayerfully and passionately, to always seek to really preach the passage we claim to be preaching.

A palliative care doctor analyses the recently approved Spanish euthanasia law and its consequences in the final stages of life. “Closing our life properly is the way to die well”, she says.

Let us not forget the future hope and comfort that enabling people to die well will bring.

However safe and self-sufficient we felt, a virus has reminded us of the fragility of life and has brought us face to face with death.

More than 40 million people used Bible reading apps and websites, sharing around 15 million verses on Easter Sunday.

May this crisis make you ponder life and death, and what is truly valuable.

Our point of reference has to remain the Lord and not coronavirus. It’s necessary to affirm God’s control over the whole situation and the need to repent before Him.

We should be able to transform the time of waiting into a time of hope and patience. Then we will discover that God can change our adversities into opportunities.

Let us listen carefully, think deeply, change appropriately to the messages from the media and speak relevantly through the media into our society.

A survey shows that women have more existential questions than men, while Protestants and Catholics are the ones who think more about the meaning of life.

The Constitution “includes a right to a self-determined death”, the court says. Protestant and Catholic leaders issued a joint statement lamenting the decision.

Spanish psychiatrist and author, Pablo Martínez, analyses how individualism, existential emptiness and intolerance to suffering, have become some of the main charasteristics of our society.

Without context, God’s epoch-defining intervention in human history to rescue and transform the world, is turned into an anodyne children’s story.