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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
"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 |
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 |