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Brought to you by Key Points The USS Abraham Lincoln’s extended deployment highlights the physical, emotional, and spiritual cost carried by service members. War is not only a matter of strategy, politics, or victory; it is measured in human lives, grief, separation, and long-term wounds. Christians can support troops by praying for them, honoring their […]
In 1787, Elizabeth Powel—a civic leader in Philadelphia—stopped Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Constitutional Convention and asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic,” Franklin replied, “if you can keep it.” Franklin’s remark is worth recalling as we remember Constitution Day on Sept. 17, the day delegates […]
What is Constitution Day anyway? Most of us didn’t grow up celebrating it in school, although maybe schools in the United States of America would be wise to make it a big deal in our education system across the nation. Even though some calendars note it, most of us don’t recall it even being mentioned […]
This post is excerpted from Susan Michael’s book Every Generation’s Story: 75 Years of American Christian Engagement with Israel, which follows the unique experiences of 18 American Christians representing 5 generations who responded to God’s call to go to Israel—and how it changed their lives forever. This is the author’s own story of how her study […]
Brought to you by Key Points Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List estimates that more than 388 million Christians face high levels of persecution or discrimination worldwide. Pastor Son Hyun-bo’s testimony challenges believers to consider whether worship, Scripture, prayer, and public faith are worth suffering for. Religious freedom is not only something Christians defend; it […]
Constitution Day is a good time to celebrate one of the greatest blessings of our freedom: the constitutional guarantee of religious liberty. Protected in the Constitution is the right to worship God freely, pray openly, exercise our faith publicly and pursue our callings faithfully. There is much to be thankful for and much to preserve. […]
Nostalgia is pretty popular on social media these days. One example is the X account RetroNewsNow, which posts commercials, shows, songs, toys and sports clips from past decades on virtually any topic. While these accounts are fun and funny and “take you back,” our tendency for nostalgia reflects something deeper about who God made us to […]
Brought to you by Key Points Social media can become excessive when it repeatedly trains users to react, compare, consume, and return even when they want to stop. What we give our attention to can shape our desires, thoughts, motivations, habits, and decisions. Social media is not inherently evil, but it becomes spiritually dangerous when […]
John Calvin described humans as perpetual idol factories. Today on Breakpoint, Michael Craven, Vice President and Dean of the Colson Fellows Program, completes his series of theological reflections on idolatry and right worship. ————————– Now we come to the most important question of all: What is God’s answer to idolatry? The answer is simple. […]
What happened to the ancient gods? How did Christianity so quickly replace idols that had been worshiped for more than a millennium? Today, Vice President of the Colson Fellows Program Michael Craven continues his theological reflection on idolatry and the Christian worldview. —————————— Zeus, Apollo, Artemis and the rest of the Greco-Roman pantheon once dominated the ancient world. But within a […]