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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Christian Headlines: Megachurch Pastor John Hagee, 80, Tests Positive for COVID-19

John Hagee, the 80-year-old author and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, was diagnosed with COVID-19 last Friday.

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Sharper Iron: Conspiracy Theories and the Christian

...Conspiracy theories have surfaced with a vengeance in recent years, serving up a counter narrative to the official explanations for all sorts of things. Conspiracy theories are fringe beliefs but have become increasingly popularized and believed by average people, and church members. As our society has become increasingly politically polarized, conspiracy theories seem to have become more and more prevalent. This is problematic not merely for society at large but also for churches.

Log College: The Decline In Spiritual Maturity

One factor in the abysmal lack of discernment today is a growing deterioration of the level of spiritual maturity in today’s church. As people’s knowledge of God’s truth ebbs, people follow more popular views, seeking feeling and experiences. They are hungry for miracles, healings, and spectacular wonders. They grope for easy and instant solutions to the routine trials of life. They turn quickly from God’s Word to embrace doctrines fit only for the credulous and naïve. They chase personal comfort and success. Christianity today may be shallower than any time in history.

Proclaim & Defend: You Fall the Way You Lean

...No one commits adultery and leaves their family in an instant. It starts with discontent, bitterness, or pride. There is lust and wicked desire that occupies the thought life. Eventually there is sinful action and broken hearts. This principle is true in countries as well as individuals. The gradual spiritual and moral decline of our own country is obvious to all with eyes to see. Co-habitation without marriage is commonly practiced. Homosexuality is accepted as normal and healthy. It is widely asserted that males can become females...Such things were once unimaginable.

Why You Should Be a Member of a Local Church

Christ will build His church, and as the gospel spreads, so will the membership of His church. And yet, the idea of church membership has fallen on hard times, even among Christians. This is not surprising. Human nature prizes personal autonomy and sneers at submitting to a higher authority. In our highly-customized, hyper-personalized, self-satisfied way of life, it’s all about self and personal preferences. We expect to see this mentality in society and culture, but churches can cater to this mentality as well.

Seth Lewis: The Genius of Dirt

It’s just dirt. But it keeps our world alive. The dirt under our feet is a never-ending gift of God’s generous genius. Dirt is the foundation of our world’s life...It is the very substance God used to craft the first man, breathing life into “the dust of the ground.” As a potter shapes the clay, so God shaped the dirt, and the result was you and me and everyone who has ever lived. Our Creator can take what is lowly and overlooked, what we wash from our hands and bodies, and he can turn that dirt into the perfect material to carry his life. He does it all the time.

T. M. Suffield: The Bible Is NOT a Smartphone

...New technologies redefine the boundaries of our experience of the human life, shifting the center of gravity of how we approach life...A dominant technology that is adopted extremely quickly, like the social internet or the smartphone, will produce a number of marked shifts in how we think about the world...An instrument is something we use to engage differently with the world, it requires mastery; a device does something for us, and does not require mastery...Smartphones are devices. Books are instruments. Instruments require skill, devices require none.

Substack: Why Do People Take Drugs?

Wherever human beings go, drugs go with them. They are used for enjoyment, for performance, and for healing. Caffeine, Alcohol and nicotine are widely used. Marijuana has been tried by many...The Bible does not speak directly about most of the substances we have in mind. What it does offer is a way of understanding the world that helps us make sense of them...People use drugs to dull pain, because they do not like themselves, because they are bored, because they are lonely, or because they are searching for something beyond ordinary experience.

CP Voices: Your Time On Earth Is Short—Use It Well

Time is one of the most mysterious and sacred gifts God has given the human race. Scripture teaches that in God we live, move, and have our being. He stands outside of time, governs time, enters time, and redeems time. Yet most believers feel they never have enough of it. Paul’s exhortation to “redeem the time” is not merely a call to efficiency — it is a call to presence, attentiveness, and spiritual discernment. Redeeming time begins not with doing more, but with being more fully present with God and with others. Here are 10 ways to live this out.

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