Posts by Daniel Darling
Loving Jesus means you’re commanded to love fellow believers–all of them
I’m not a big bumper sticker guy, but I couldn’t help noticing the one proudly displayed on my new neighbor’s car. When I first saw it, I was excited because it said, “JESUS LOVES YOU” in large capital letters. Great! I thought. A Christian has moved in next to me. I imagined early morning Bible…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Robby Gallaty on the importance of discipleship
He battled drug addiction and chronic pain. Cocaine and heroine brought him to his knees, even stealing money from his parents just to survive. It was at this low point that Robby Gallaty found Jesus. Today, Robby is the pastor of one of the largest churches in the Southern Baptist Convention and a leading advocate for…
Read MoreWhat The Incarnation Means for Our Bodies
The angel was clear, to Mary, about the mission of Jesus. In his angelic announcement, he said that Jesus would come to “save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).” To be our Savior, God had to become human. He had to suffer as a human. He had to take on the full punishment of God’s…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Bob Lepine on marriage and parenting
He has been on the radio talking about marriage and parenting for twenty-five years. What lessons does this radio veteran have for young families? Bob Lepine is a great broadcaster, a creative leader, and the host of Family Life Today, a broadcast ministry that helps families around the world. Bob talks to me about his…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Jamie Ivey on image and identity
We present, on social media, to our friends, at work, the best versions of ourselves. But what if people knew who we really were? With our mess ups and mistakes and foibles? Jamie Ivey, a popular podcaster, writer, and adoptive mother shares what God is teaching her about image and identity. He’s the author of…
Read MoreBook of Wishes: The reason we long for more
It arrived every November, wrapped in cellophane, its pages filled with new possibilities. On the cover, a dreamy holiday image, pulling your heart into the season and beckoning you to indulge in hours of wish making. It’s hard to overestimate the sheer joy the Sears Wish Book brought to my young heart. Before Amazon and…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Scott James on celebrating the wonder of Christmas
How can families celebrate the wonder of the incarnation throughout the Christmas season? Doctor, church elder, and author, Scott James joins to the show to talk about the rhythms of his family and about his new Christmas book for children, The Littlest Watchman: Watching and Waiting for the Very First Christmas. Show Notes Twitter: @scott_h_james Book:…
Read MoreWhen everything isn’t awesome: Is the modern evangelical worship service a safe place to lament?
A couple years ago, I took a day off and treated my family to a matinee showing of The Lego Movie. My wife and I have four children—three girls and one boy—so this day was like an oasis for my son and me, surrounded as we are by princess movies. As it turns out, everyone,…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Marvin Olasky on journalism and the pursuit of truth
How should Christians think about journalism and the pursuit of truth? The longtime editor-in-chief of World Magazine joins the podcast to talk the media, Christian witness, and his journey from Marxism to Christianity. Marvin Olasky is one of my favorite people. I’ve been reading World for several decades and have been strongly influenced by his…
Read MoreWhy recognizing our need for grace enlarges our capacity to give it
British author and thinker G. K. Chesterton was once invited by a London newspaper to offer his opinion on what was wrong with the world. Legend has it he sent a brief letter in reply: Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely yours, G. K. Chesterton This echoes the thoughts of another philosopher. In one of his…
Read More15 Years and Counting
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that…
Read MoreThanksgiving, When There is No Reason to Be Thankful
There was little to be thankful for in those first few, difficult, ravaging years. The bitter New England cold had claimed half of the Mayflower’s first courageous travellers. The comforts of their homes in England, warm food, adequate furnishings, reliable city infrastructure—this was all gone and replaced with a crude and uncertain reality in the…
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