What a year 2020 has been. Pandemics. A presidential impeachment process. A contested presidential election. George Floyd killed at the hands of police. Racial tensions, peaceful protests, and violent riots. Epic forest fires. Record unemployment. Record stock market...
Just a little over two years ago, Shirley and I moved from NW Indiana to the Seattle-Tacoma area to be near our daughter, son, daughter-in-law and our three granddaughters. When we moved, our grands were 6, 4, and 2. What a great age to begin loving them in person!...
Note: I’ve added a 7th post—one that released just after my original post. Our Historical Context As I sit at my computer, we are one week away from Election Day in the US, even as millions of votes have already been cast with early voting. In just the past week,...
A Word from Bob On September 15, 2020, Baker Books released my new two-book series on equipping biblical counselors for marriage counseling and for family counseling: Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors Gospel-Centered...
5 top Christian blog posts of the week. Posts by Tim Keller, Paul Tautges and more on grief, social justice, social media, and more. Poetic Soul Care Sometimes we so focus on “truth” that we miss the reality that God’s Truth—His Word—is not just in didactic form, but...
True confession time. Lately I have become discouraged by how Christians interact with one another on social media—Twitter, Facebook, etc. The Bible says: The world will know we are Christians by our love for one another (John 13:25). Christians on social media seem...
