As is my custom, I'm taking a break from blogging between now and September. I do this each summer so my batteries won't get drained...

"As I travel around the world," writes Dan Egeler , Vice President of International Ministries for the Association of Christian S...

We live in a fallen, broken world, yet God has not abandoned His stuff. It is His intention to restore it, as it says in Col. 1:19-20, to “r...

If someone wanted to counterfeit a $20 bill that would pass the toughest test, the most convincing forgery would be the one that most closel...

Darrow Miller, in his superb book, LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day , describes the split between the spiritual and t...

I first came across the word “wholistic” (spelled with a “w”) through the work of Darrow Miller, the author I recommended last week, who wro...

I'm currently re-reading Darrow Miller's excellent book, LifeWork . In it, he relates the following: "A number of years ago,...

If "to integrate Christian faith and work" means to apply the implications of the Word of God to the shop, the office, and the co...

How does a banker do banking “as unto the Lord?” How does a car mechanic repair cars in alignment with Christ (pardon the pun)? How does the...

I seem to be on a book endorsement roll, so I'll keep the ball moving with an enthusiastic endorsement of Andy Crouch's great book, ...

God has His people spread throughout the full spectrum of American society. From one end to the other, the People of the Vine are occupying ...

I first met Chuck Colson in 2001 at a gathering for Prison Fellowship Ministry volunteers. My wife and I had provided some teaching on bibl...

Vishal Mangalwadi and his wife, Ruth, are moving to Cambridge, England, where Mangalwadi will assume the John Harvard Lectureship in Christi...

The Church is people. Sometimes it gathers (as on Sunday morning), and sometimes it scatters (as on Monday morning). Connecting with Chris...

Chuck Colson founded the "Centurions Program" to equip People of the Vine to “live out their faith authentically in the world.” I...

Last week I suggested we equip Christ-loving lawyers, legislators, senators, council members, and mayors to bring biblically-informed minds ...

If the People of the Vine are going to have an influence in politics and law, I suggest we work harder at encouraging and equipping Christ-l...

Today we still have the form of a free nation, but we are losing what is necessary to maintain it. Our civil freedoms can only survive as lo...

In a recent post, I quoted John Adams, our 2 nd President, as saying, “…we have no government armed with power capable of contending with h...

Early Americans expected the state to not interfere with church governance, and the authority of the church did not extend to civil policy-m...