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Nov 16, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Ed Welch
Two angels had been sent by the Lord to warn Lot and his family what was about to happen and take them away from Sodom. Lot, however, “lingered.” His infatuation with Sodom seemed to know no bounds. In response, “the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city” (Gen 19:16). The Lord, through these two angels, took a reluctant family away from what would otherwise kill them.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
baptistcourier.com | Ed Welch
A team of Anderson University students spent nine days sharing Christ’s love in the heart of England. They ministered in May at OIKOS Church, located in Erdington, a suburb of the city of Birmingham, England’s second largest city. If the name OIKOS sounds Greek to readers of this article, there’s a very good reason for that. OIKOS is the Greek word for “family/household.” OIKOS Church exists to live out what it means to be the family of God in a community of diverse ethnicities and beliefs.
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May 8, 2024 | 
gamedev.net | Ed Welch
My game Merc Tactics uses a simple shadow map to create shadows, but I had a lot of trouble getting it to work without artifacts. In particular peter panning and acne were a big problems.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
baptistcourier.com | Ed Welch
Most folks are familiar with the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses,” but a family at Anderson University has raised the bar just a bit. It’s not about status; it’s more about the special bond this close-knit family has with one another. Brenda Jones, an Anderson native, moved with her husband, David, to the Columbia area after they were married. Then Brenda experienced something that experts say happens to about one mother in a thousand.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
desiringgod.org | Ed Welch
My goal in this article is to briefly consider a specific pastoral question: What is a wise approach to those in your church who see a secular therapist? Since this question is part of a long and winding road, we will make a couple of stops before we arrive at an answer. The modern therapeutic era made its first obvious appearance with Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) and his associates in the early 1900s. The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875–1961) was among those associates.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
washingtontimes.com | Ed Welch
Front Page Podcast Commentary Podcasts The Washington Times Front Page Podcast Netflix biopic a missed opportunity Cheryl Chumley is Bold & Blunt View all Latest Cartoon Latest Cartoon Question of the Day Question of the Day Yes, but we should do more No, we should stop entirely...
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
highergroundtimes.com | Ed Welch
OPINION: “I can’t even think about it,” she said. “People from both sides of the family, all meeting at our house for dinner. Old resentments right under the surface. No one listens. There are no reasonable conversations.” Another friend summarized the next month or two this way: “Every holiday song I hear makes me feel worse. I need to listen to more Nirvana.” Subscribe to have The Washington Times’ Higher Ground delivered to your inbox every Sunday.
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Sep 9, 2023 | 
theaquilareport.com | Ed Welch
God does not worry. His face toward you reveals his rest and favor. During the turbulence of life, his face also reveals his compassion and care. And the word is out. Apparently, Jesus’ reputation has traveled to people who don’t know him well (like twentieth-century real estate agents), and even they occasionally rest and do not worry because the triune God has power and authority over all things. How many times have you been in a precarious situation, but the person in charge was not concerned?
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May 10, 2023 | 
christianity.com | Ed Welch
"It could be worse. Imagine if you broke both legs."We have some odd ways of cheering each other up. Most of our bone-headed comments to suffering people are offered with passable intentions, and most of those comments are judged by their recipients as misguided rather than malicious, but it sure would be nice to improve our record of encouragement in the midst of pain. We could all generate a Top Ten List of words we spoke or received that make us shudder when we think about them.
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Apr 29, 2023 | 
desiringgod.org | Ed Welch
We know marriage is hard. We all learn that by the second week. But there are different kinds of hard. There is hard and hopeful, and there is hard and hopeless. The most difficult marriage, of course, is the one that is hard, distant, and with little reason to think it will change. In some of those cases, there might not be overt betrayal or cruel behavior or blatant sins that children would see. Instead, the marriage is . . . disappointing, lifeless, lonely.
