New research shows that spirituality may help teens cope with chronic illness...more
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Doctrine, Reformed preaching - Shai Linne thinks such elements make good material for hip hop music...more
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On this inaugural day, check out some of the inaugural speeches from presidents of the past....more
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According to Frederick Buechner the gospel is the true fairy tale that we would do well to believe as a child...more
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Richard John Neuhaus, author of The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America, has died...more
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Fathers (and mothers), perhaps you can control behavior for awhile, but don't overlook your child's heart...more
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The fans are cheering, the cheerleaders are shouting their songs, but why for the opposing team?...more
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They don't want religion, but they do want fellowship and moral support. So where are Humanist parents to go?...more
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A confirmed atheist is convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa...more
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Christians tell a better Christmas story. But is the basic story clear and simple in our minds?...more
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"Sin" and "devil" are gone, as are "acorn," "melon," and "tulip." According to Oxford's Junior Dictionary, Christianity and the countryside have lost their relevance...more
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Fairy tales and Santa Claus prepare us to embrace the ultimate Fairy Tale, the one ingrained in our being...more
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We may have been fools, but we were fools willing to listen and to believe and to obey...more
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The child would not be born in my lifetime. The Spirit revealed that my message was for you...more
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Mice Templar could be the most emotionally-challenging depiction of the mythic hero ever crafted for the comic book page...more
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I stand in the presence of God, but it was before a babe in a manger that I learned human fear...more
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I am proud of my son. But I know now there is a Father even more proud of his Son...more
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It is easy enough to make hearts feel things. It is hard to make a permanent change in them...more
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Newsweek says the Bible is not a good source for opposing gay marriage. Albert Mohler disagrees...more
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Before our modern-day atheists, it was the church that had trouble with Christmas trees...more
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Silence. How easy it is to go through a day literally without one minute of silence...more
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A member of the "educated liberal middle-class" explains his circle's uneasy Thanksgiving...more
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Worried about how you will manage through the economic crisis? Knowing four-C's will help...more
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Stephen Gloucester was a former slave who became a Presbyterian minister. Why did Frederick Douglass denounce him?...more
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Ligon Duncan offers counsel on how to pray for our President-elect Barack Obama...more
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"I feel sorry that we are being destroyed from within," intoned the Rev. Jim Jones. Within hours more than 900 of his followers would die...more
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Johnny Cash is hard to pin down. A man of contradiction, he epitomized the soul of his nation...more
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The streets of Gaza are cleared at night. Curfew? No, everyone is home watching the Turkish soap opera, Noor...more
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Rick Phillips, a former military officer, gives guidance on how to pray for soldiers...more
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The Puritans don't get respect, which led Sarah Vowell to write about these Wordy Shipmates...more
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How do I know God's will for me? Sinclair Ferguson finds six questions to ask from the letter to 1 Corinthians that will help with an answer...more
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In The Death of the Grown-up, Diana West contends that adults' desire to return to their youth began with the 1940s' invention of the teenager...more
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According to the Global Language Monitor, English adds a new word every 98 minutes. Next April should produce the one-millionth...more
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With the elections coming up, Christians should reassess their civic responsibility beginning with hospitality...more
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R. C. Sproul wonders what Luther would have to say today about evangelical churches. Actually, he thinks he knows...more
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Day dreaming by a church chorister led to a great invention, but such dreaming seems to be a dying skill...more
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According to a Dutch study cleanliness really may be next to godliness, or at least keeping the law...more
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Long before Thomas Wolfe struggled with "going home again," a young Presbyterian seminary student faced the dilemma of being educated beyond his hometown neighbors...more
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Is Down Syndrome the product of the Fall? Or perhaps a better question: Is our reaction to it the product?...more
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Parents obsess over their children's IQ. In 1997, Robert Coles wrote a book advocating interest in their "moral intelligence." He explains in this PBS interview...more
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Over thirty years ago, Tim Keller heard Edmund Clowney preach a sermon on the "Prodigal Son." It changed the way he understood Christianity. Here is that sermon provided by Crossway....more
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Preacher, remember, you are preaching to the ignorant, to the doubter, and to the sinner. Whoever the person and whatever the case, here is what you are to give them...more
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The New Atheists condemn not just belief in God but respect for belief in God. Religion is not only wrong; it's evil. And so it is time to wage battle...more
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Soul mate? This feminist just wants a traditional family and she is willing to settle for Mr. Good Enough to get it...more
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Are genetically modified plants safe for human consumption? According to the Swiss, that's not the real question. What about the plants' dignity?...more
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Is "gracism" the right response for the church to racism? That is the premise to David Anderson's book Gracism: The Art of Inclusion...more
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The basic elements of football started at Franklin Field, Harvard Stadium and the Yale Bowl, essentially shaping college football and college athletics as we know them...more
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Who is the Bad Guy in the present financial crisis: greedy Wall Street? interfering government? maybe our obsession with owning a home?...more
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"We often win over our enemies only after we have been soundly defeated by the Lord Himself," so writes A. W. Tozer in this online devotional...more
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Is there a soul mate for each person, that one individual who is your destiny? Gary Thomas thinks we should more concerned about having a sole mate...more
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The movie has all the works - explosions, special effects, sexuality. Now, what is it teaching you? The producer knows. Do you?...more
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How do we keep acts of mercy from diluting or swamping the gospel's message about the great act of mercy, namely the atonement of Christ...more
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If only he had developed the ability to speak in public, legendary football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, would have completed his first pursuit to be a Presbyterian minister...more
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How powerful is forgiveness? One teenager whose recklessness killed a young bride discovered its power as shown through the Amish towards him...more
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What was her secret treasure, the murderer wanted to know, which kept the harlot from jumping into the river? And so he demanded she read from the eternal book...more
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The cult of professor worship is perhaps the most dangerous and reprehensible cult in the theological world, so says one theological professor...more
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What is more likely to dissuade a person from being superstitious and believing in the paranormal? Education? Atheism? The answer may surprise you...more
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Adults are supposed to know things that children don’t, and this knowledge binds and inhibits us. And so The Childlike Vision fades... more
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On September 11, 2001, Makoto Fujimura was attending a prayer meeting when he heard of an accident at the Twin Towers, three blocks from where he lived with his family... more
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"Keep working with this Unitas," the coach told Berry. Evidently he saw something in the skinny rookie whom others thought wasn't tough enough... more |
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Is Satan more concerned about the families in our churches than we are? What does he know that we may be overlooking?... more
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A mistake? A poor choice? That is how many like to refer to sin. R. C. Sproul takes a harder line. He calls it " cosmic treason"... more |
" Call me a natalist," confesses this father of five. His neighbors think he is strange to have so many children in the center of the city... more |
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Deaconess. It's become a fight'n word in the PCA. Two ministers use soft gloves to present their different takes - Tim Keller and Ligon Duncan... Keller... Duncan
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Sometimes you wake up in the morning, look around at creation and, well...if you are a poet like Cummings or Hopkins, you just got to exclaim... more |
Why put invaluable treasure in jars of clay? The Apostle Paul thinks he knows, and it keeps him from losing heart through trials... more |
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To preach the good news, we must preach the bad, i.e. the reality of hell. But in this age of tolerance, how? Tim Keller shares his approach... more
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According to David Skeel, evangelicals are still looking for the next great Mere Christianity. To succeed a writer needs two things... more |
Not long before she died, Pauline Kael remarked to a friend, "When we championed trash culture we had no idea it would become the only culture."... more |
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No man is an island. Okay, but what is the connection with bells tolling? John Donne meditates upon them in his sick bed... more
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In his early ministry, James Boice observed how the mainline church became like the world. Later he would observe the same trends among evangelicals... more
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" Wives should submit in everything to their husbands," so says the Apostle Paul. Can that really be expected considering the husbands?... more |
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" I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size)," wrote the sub-creator of The Lord of the Rings. Here is a look at his life and his life work... more
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To be an effective father, you must first know your goal for your children, and that goal should be the same as God the Father... more
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More than one minister has wanted to leave his calling and many have in this modern age. But such desires are not new, as this pastor-poet makes known... more |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn died August 4. While an exile in America, he critiqued how America used her freedom in his 1978 Harvard Graduation speech... more
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Michael Ward believes he has discovered the hidden inner meaning of the Narnia Chronicles, and it is found in the planets... more |
To feel the love of Christ in the laying down of his life, it helps to see how utterly intentional it was. John Piper sees five ways Christ suffered for us intentionally... more |
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The plan was to produce a generation of "high quality" children, but China can't keep up with the expectations of her "little emperors"... more
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We writers are not nouns, C. S. Lewis used to say. We are mere adjectives, pointing to the great Noun of truth... more |
"I did not love, yes, I hated the righteous God who punishes sinners," confessed Luther. So what changed his mind? Reading Scripture in context helped... more |
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As you desired me (Jonathan Edwards) to send you... some directions how to conduct yourself in your Christian course, I would now answer... more
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In "being honest," we often are anything but, when we criticize another. For we are called upon to tell the whole truth, not half-truths... more |
"A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of God." C. H. Spurgeon meditates on Psalm 73:24... more |
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There is Eros Spirituality and there is Agape Faith. One is about the sinner finding God; the other is about God finding the sinner... more
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