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This post was originally published on 10/08/18 While waiting in line at the market, I observed two young Latina women in matching jean...

We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

‘Come out from them and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters’ (2 Cor. 6:17,18)....

Marco Casanova and Andrew Comiskey Is it “disloyal” or “schismatic” to respectfully disagree with the pope? We’ve been wrestling with...

Blazing ‘I am not afraid. God is with me. He made me for this.’ - Joan of Arc ‘I have come to set the world on fire, and how I wish it...

Holy Fear ‘He will be the foundation for our times—a rich store of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: fear of the Lord is key to this...

Contending for Justice ‘In the darkness of the unexpressed, sin poisons the whole of a man.’ - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Give me a bold sinner...

Radiant Jesus Covers the Naked The Gospels refer to ‘harassed and helpless’ ones, which literally means people without skin, unprotected....

‘Now in Christ Jesus you who were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ’ (Eph. 2:13). To find the narrow way...

‘In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood’ (Heb. 12:4). Guys tend to be soft these...

‘In You there is forgiveness, so You are to be feared’ (Psalm 130:4). ‘The purpose of Lent…is to create a healthy hatred of evil, a...

By Mike Nobrega Desert Stream Ministries Board Member I came to Desert Stream for help almost 30-years-ago: I was unable to break the...

‘…any unchastity has these two aspects: to be at once intemperance and injustice.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 158) ‘…in...

‘Ultimately, it is the individual homosexual who suffers in his or her relationship to God when the church shirks its duty to call a sin...

‘A living morality in the existential sense is not formed only by the norms that clothe themselves in the form of commandments, precepts,...