Beware the Narcissist Friend: How to Spot Manipulation and Set Strong Boundaries
If your relationships seem one-sided and exhausting, it may help to reflect on how they affect you. In this article, Jason Jimenez will help you recognize a narcissist and their behavior, understand how they influence your interactions, and share biblical ways to confront them and set boundaries while still showing love and grace.
Engaging in Constructive Conversations
Having productive and meaningful conversations is important for promoting understanding and finding common ground among people. Constructive dialogue takes effort and commitment from everyone involved. It involves respect, openness, and a willingness to listen. This type of conversation goes beyond just sharing opinions; it focuses on understanding the deeper concerns and motivations of others.
"Love is Love? Three Reasons to Rethink the Mantra"
June has become a month of recognition and celebration of LGBT+ people. During this month, a constant mantra you will inevitably hear and see is “Love is Love.” This mantra is used within the LGBT+ community to advocate for the acceptance of all forms of love, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. It’s a powerful statement that resonates with many, but it also raises important questions for Christians striving to live according to biblical teaching.
The Cost of Freedom: How Campus Protests Push the Limits of Expression
The protests on college campuses over the Hamas-Israel war are receiving a lot of attention. However, amidst the cancellations of classes, occupation of buildings, and even instances of firing fireworks at Jewish people on campus, it seems that the fundamental question has been overlooked: to what extent are college protesters permitted to exercise their First Amendment rights?
The Spiritual Disillusionment of Millennials, Part 1
Are we to give up on their generation seeing that the rise of the “religiously unaffiliated” continues to mass more followers? Or are we to acknowledge the crisis before us and be willing to do whatever God has called us to do to engage Millennials with the gospel of Jesus Christ?