Lance Brown

Cognitive empathy is the mental ability to understand someone else’s mental state and see a circumstance from their point of view. Emotional empathy is the ability to resonate with someone else’s feelings. Biblical empathy is a noble virtue, but in our modern culture, it has morphed into being accepting of any behavior and not being…

Most people don’t reject God with a dramatic declaration. They just live as if He’s optional and eventually discover that the world that assumes Him is a lot more livable than the one that doesn’t. C.S. Lewis spent years using the injustice of the world as his argument against God, until he noticed that calling…

There is one assumption that sits underneath almost every way we go wrong, it’s the idea that: I don’t really need God. I have better options. Paul calls it “the lie” in Romans 1. The foundational exchange where we trade the truth that God is God for the belief that something created can give us…

There is nothing more confusing in our secular culture than gender. Why is there gender? What does it mean to be masculine? What does it mean to be feminine? When men are others-centered toward others real masculinity shines in relational sacrifice. When women are others-centered toward others, inner beauty enables rich connection to shine.

Human beings always look for answers to explain life. We move either to “speculation”: what we imagine the answers are or want the answers to be, or “revelation”: what the answers are. Absolute truth best explains reality, the reality of the world, life, God, human nature, meaning and purpose.

Human beings always look for answers to explain life. We move in one of two directions…either speculation: what we imagine the answers are; what we want the answers to be, or revelation: what the answers are, how the world really works, and who God really is. Despite post-modern thinking, absolute truth best explains the reality…