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Monday, January 25, 2021

  • Global Persecution Of Christians Increased Dramatically In Last Year

    For years I have been warning that Christian persecution was rising all over the globe, but we have never seen anything like the past year. 

  • The Atlantic: A Shift In American Family Values Is Fueling Estrangement

    Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.

  • Remember Our Chains--- The State of the Persecuted Church

    At the end of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, he writes, “Remember my chains.” Thousands of Christians around the world today could write the same words. Some are locked behind bars; others are threatened with intimidation, discrimination, and violence. Yet as persecution grows in many parts of the world, so too does the gospel

  • Michael Kelley: One Surprising Mark of Spiritual Maturity

    ....The spiritually mature do not take themselves too seriously. That is, it is a mark of maturity to be able to laugh at yourself.

  • Gentle Reformation: Visiting the Sick Is Still Important

    ...The topic for the evening comes at a time in history: when visiting the sick and our ability to go to hospital to care for the infirmed, weak, or dying is greatly diminished. And yet, care for those in the church who are ill or afflicted among us, is some of the most foundational stuff of our true religion.

Sunday, January 24, 2021

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Friday, January 22, 2021

  • Christian Headlines: Joe Biden Signs Transgender Rights Order Forcing Schools To Allow Boys In Girls' Sports

    An executive order signed by President Biden on Wednesday will force schools to allow biological boys who identify as girls to compete in girls’ sports, critics of the order say.

  • The Federalist: Inauguration Violence Erupts....From Antifa

    As officers prepared for what many predicted would be an insurrection by Trump supporters on Inauguration Day, Antifa members rioted across the nation.

  • Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Tells Christians They Shouldn’t Worship In Person

    ...While Lee deems church services dangerous, ‘school sponsored sporting events and activities’ are specifically permitted in the order and there is no mention of further governor guidelines for them.

  • The Media Told Us a Violent Revolt Was Coming... What Happened?

    ...We have been told conservatives were going to revolt, trying to overthrow a fairly elected incoming President. Instead, what we saw yesterday was a peaceful transfer of power.

  • For Evangelical Christians, Trump Left But God Didn’t

    ...In his efforts to politicize religion, Trump reawakened the national conversation about faith, religious liberties and moral decline. He kept Evangelical Christian leaders in his inner circle, despite personally representing few of their values.

  • Proclaim & Defend: Crying Out To God In Chaotic Times

    ....When we sense that our society is confused and chaotic, surely this is the right time to pray for a moving of God’s Spirit: that God’s great gospel light would shine in this darkness.

  • A Concise Biblical Evaluation of Critical Theory

    ...So the question is not whether CT comes from Scripture; it certainly does not, but neither does calculus, free market economics, or microbiology. The more critical question is whether CT is consistent with biblical truth.

  • On Racism

    ...Some of the problems come from confusion over the issues of race, with faulty ideas gaining favor with passionate people “on both sides.” The situation is dangerous as well as distressing, but there is a solution to it in the Bible.

  • Culture Watch: Proclaim the Truth Regardless of How It Is Received

    Many Christians are wondering how we are to proceed as the days get darker, as evil accelerates, and as lies and deception abound. There would be many responses to this, but let me offer one: we must speak truth, we must speak it boldly, and we must speak it regardless of how it is received.

  • On Living By the Loopholes

    ...How different would our world be today, do you suppose, if Christ’s ambassadors represented him with the kind of grace that surprises and shocks precisely those who hate them?

  • Ligonier: An Illustration of Repentance

    ... Imagine repentance as a man walking in one direction who suddenly realizes that he is walking in the opposite direction from which he should be walking. He stops. He turns around. Then he begins walking in the new direction. It is a quick and simple process.

Thursday, January 21, 2021