Posts by Timothy Zebell
Court Decides Whether Quoting the Bible Is a Crime
Two Christians stood trial on Monday for publicly expressing the “extreme Christian thinking” that homosexuality and sex outside of a monogamous and heterosexual marriage are sins. Incredibly, their crime occurred seven years before LGBT was added to the national hate-speech law as a protected class. Nevertheless…
Read MoreAn Indispensable New Year Resolution
Do your friends, family, and co-workers know more about your opinions regarding vaccine mandates, masks, inflation, illegal immigration, election integrity, America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, or our president’s mental health than they know about your opinions regarding God and His expectations for how we ought to live?
Read MoreWhen Fear Rules: The Rise of Omicron
Fear has been the driving force in determining our way of life for nearly two years, so perhaps it should not be surprising that it only took four men in Africa with Hay Fever-like symptoms to cause a stock market crash, trigger a new spate of travel bans, and rebooted talk of government lockdowns. On Black Friday…
Read MoreIt Is Time to Stop Clowning around about Abortion
Ironically, the same woke activists that decried comedian Dave Chappelle’s insensitivity last month toward transgenders are now lauding a Saturday Night Live sketch with “Goober the Clown (who had an abortion when she was 23).” … “Review after review, recap after recap, proclaimed that it was punchy and provocative,”…
Read MoreHalloween: How to Use the Vampire to Share the Gospel
Gothic horror, from which was birthed our modern depictions of monsters, is rooted in mankind’s fear and comprehension of its own dark inclinations. Certainly, the king of gothic horror is the vampire. As such, vampires portray the thirst and restlessness of our repressed dark side. They challenge us to confront our natural predisposition for evil and our pursuit of personal gratification over all else….
Read MoreHow to Use Halloween Horror to Share the Gospel
What better time is there for conversations about the afterlife than a day dominated by ghosts and monsters? Indeed, the horror of vampires, werewolves, zombies, witches, and ghosts provide prime opportunities to share spiritual truths with a secular society. Far from fearing these monsters, Christians can embrace them as meaningful archetypes that illustrate…
Read MoreAbortion in the Crosshairs: The Kill Shot to Roe v. Wade
The once elusive hope of overturning Roe v. Wade is finally reality … Why isn’t every church in America talking about this lawsuit and blanketing it in prayer for the next few months? … Terrified that Roe v. Wade may, in fact, be overturned, U.S. House Democrats passed the most pro-abortion bill in history on September 24. The Women’s Health Protection Act passed in a party-line vote, with only…
Read MoreThe Truth Behind America’s Trickiest Holiday and How to Navigate It
Anyone who has investigated the subject knows how controversial and confusing it is. What few resources exist to guide Christians are often oversimplified, based upon faulty research, and completely contradictory to one another. Moreover, most of the suggestions for how to…
Read MoreNew Resource – Unmasking Halloween – The Truth Behind America’s Trickiest Holiday & How to Navigate It
No longer is Halloween the frivolous children’s holiday that it had become by the mid-20th century. Today it is a commercial juggernaut and an indispensable component of American culture. How did a rural harvest festival become one of America’s top commercial holidays? Until we understand the ways that Halloween’s character and purpose have transformed over time, we will not know how best to navigate this enigmatic holiday. Author and former missionary Timothy Zebell works to unmask America’s trickiest holiday. Click here to download a free PDF or order a physical copy!
Read More20 Years after 9/11, Can We Finally Admit the Truth?
Perhaps the greatest casualty on September 11 was truth. Patriotic Americans across the country rallied around our flag rather than our exclusive truth claims for one faith and the moral obligations that come with it. At the time, it was considered intolerant and unpatriotic to…
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