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Matthew Everhard introduces us to Jonathan Edwards' resolutions

By W. Scott Lamb

Jonathan Edwards wrote the resolutions when he was completing his formal education and transitioning into his vocational life as a pastor. It is stunning to consider that he began this list at the age of just 19. He completed them in his early twenties and returned to them on a weekly basis as part of his regular prayer and devotional life. The 70 Resolutions display a very profound view of one's life lived intentionally and purposefully for the glory of God, and all seventy consider life from the perspective of eternity. Some are sweet. Others are jarring.

Exploring rural Australia on the True North (Photo courtesy of Kurtz-Ahlers & Associates)

Travel bucket list: 2016 and beyond

By Lark Gould

Gotta bucket list? There is no time like resolution time to create one. Whether you are an experienced wanderer or an experienced dreamer, you are likely to have a special place or two you do not want to miss tucked within the pages of your life's "to-do" list.

The Annunciation, by Henry Tanner

The Annunciation by Henry Tanner

By W. Scott Lamb

Tanner clothes Mary in simple peasant fabric and places her in a room with rough-hewn stone flooring and ugly, cracked plaster. Even the vase in the background is of the common ceramic variety with no adornment. While other artists depict Gabriel coming to Mary while she is reading, thus showing her industry, intellect, and piety, Tanner's Mary seems to have been doing nothing--just sitting on her bed. Look closely and you will even see her bare toes. How shocking!

Ken Graves, Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel in Bangor, Maine.

Christian pastors take varying views on concealed-carry guns

By W. Scott Lamb

Our duty to spread the gospel, however, does not mean that we have a Christian duty to allow them to come to our homes and take our daughters as slaves, or for them to enter our churches and prematurely dispatch to Heaven our brothers and sisters or their children. In that situation, I for one -- while not called to hate or to avenge -- am called to defend. And to defend violently, if necessary.

President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press briefing room at the White House, in Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Know your enemy, Mr. President

By Lawrence J. Fedewa

They will never surrender, and they will never stop. Their only vision of victory is the world domination by their brand of Islam. (This is why the release of the Guantanamo prisoners is so absurd.)

Republican presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd before addressing supporters at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., in this Dec. 21, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) **FILE**

The Left can't explain Donald Trump's success -- Let me help you

By L. Todd Wood

Not having decided who I am going to vote for in the 2016 presidential election, I am not-the-less amused at the Left's (and the Republican establishment's) attempts to explain Donald Trump's success on the campaign trail. Pundit after pundit has opined on the reason Mr. Trump is, in some polls, over 40 percent of the Republican primary electorate.

Military life detours when drug abuse joins PTSD

By Emery A. Popoloski

A detoured life. That is how military caregiver Allyson Bowers describes her life caring for her husband, Benjamin Bowers, a medically retired Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran. Along with caring for her husband, Allyson also holds a master's degree in human services with an emphasis on military resilience from Liberty University and is a Fellow Emeritus with the Elizabeth Dole Foundation.