When the World Shakes: Anchoring Your Soul in the Unchanging Goodness of God If you feel like the ground beneath you has been vibrating lately, you are not alone. As we close out 2025 and look toward 2026, the prevailing cultural mood isn't one of optimistic resolution—it’s one of low-grade anxiety. We see it in global instability, we feel it in the deep divisions fracturing major church denominations, and we experience it in the economic and personal pressures of daily life. The writer of Hebrews spoke of a time when God would "shake not only the earth but also the heavens," so that "what cannot be shaken may remain" (Hebrews 12:26-27). It feels like we are living through a great shaking right now. In times like these, the most difficult—yet most vital—question a Christian can ask is: Is God still good? The world’s answer is "no." The skeptic’s answer is "if He is, He isn't very competent." But the biblical answer is a resounding ...
I grew up in a world looking up to great men and women who are selfless and who are willing to sacrifice for people other than themselves. Heroes, real or fictional; they would always go out of their way, putting their lives in danger and even losing them for the sake of the many. So when we see soldiers die in battle or firemen rush into a fiery blaze or a collapsing building, we admire their courage and remember and honor them for their sacrifice. Selflessness. For the happiness and the welfare of all. Christ-like. A world without God is a world where mothers can opt to kill their own babies and call it choice. A world without God is world where love and happiness of oneself is the most important thing even if it meant it costs the happiness of those around them. A world without God is world where people choose to abandon truth and insist that reality is whatever they believe in no matter how obnoxious it is. Congratulations, we ar...