In Praise of Clerks
Hiring a clerk in place of a secretary makes a lot of sense on many fronts.
The role of clerk also gives men the opportunity for job experience and training in a field in which they could serve more substantially later on. We’ve talked to several young men who say that nobody will hire them because they have no work experience, but they have nowhere to get it. If Christian business owners would take on unemployed men as clerks, they would be providing employment and preparation for future employment.
New Research: Obedience Not Easy Decision for Believers
Less than one-third of churchgoers strongly agree they are following through in specific aspects of obedience.
The survey also examines an individual's inclination to adjust their attitude through the statement: "When I realize my attitude does not please God, I take steps to try to fix it." More than 80 percent agree with the statement, but only 32 percent strongly agree. Fifteen percent neither agree nor disagree, and four percent disagree.
How to Stay Christian in Seminary
He thinks that somehow his real-life Christianity can kick into gear once his real life starts on the other side of graduation.
Chase the trail of “staying Christian” in seminary long enough, and you’ll realize it’s less about what a special season seminary is and more about what Christianity is in every season of life, in every age of church history, in every place on the planet. Staying Christian in seminary is about staying Christian in general.
Glorious Ruin: Appreciation and Concerns
Tullian (Tchividjian) seems anxious to sever any moral link between sin and suffering
If you’re looking for a book on suffering that offers simplistic answers, easy solutions, five-step formulas, and “pull up your bootstraps” triumphalism, don’t buy Glorious Ruin.
Pastor’s ‘Hate Speech’ conviction overturned in Canadian Appeals Court
Court upholds right to express religious views on homosexuality
Boissoin’s lawyer…pointed out that not only did Justice O’Brien throw out the AHRC’s decision, but ruled that a human rights panel had no constitutional authority to preside in such circumstances.
An Interview with author of “When Your Husband is Addicted to Pornography”
I can’t emphasize this enough; a husband’s use of pornography is not about the wife
This book isn’t about the husband as much as it’s about the wife’s heart. I address six themes in the book: hope, surrender, trust, identity, brokenness, and forgiveness. I’ve reiterated this, because I don’t want anyone to get the idea that this is a manual for fixing your husband. It most definitely is not. But………
Alone: the Solas of the Reformation
Theme for the 2012 Quakertown Regional Conference on Reformed Theology
Grace Bible Fellowship Church in Quakertown, PA will host its fifth annual conference as a partnered event with the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals on Nov. 9-10, 2012.
PCUSA General Assembly Judicial Commission to hear three major cases
Larson v. Presbytery of Los Ranchos; Tom v. Presbytery of San Francisco; PCUSA v. Rev. Laurie McNeill
1. May a presbytery pass a resolution concerning the manner of life for its teaching elders as part of the proper exercise of the presbytery's authority. 2. Does a Presbytery have the right to dismiss a church with its property, in that the property is held 'in trust' for the denomination? 3. May a pastor participate in a same-sex marriage ceremony?
Why the Dinesh D’Souza Scandal Hit Home
There's more at stake in our leaders' failings than we think.
No, the secular world is frothing at the mouth at having yet one more example of hypocrisy from within the traditional marriage/family values crowd. For just one prominent fallen Christian can make secularism’s point far more effectively than can all the arguments of the New Atheists and marriage equality activists combined.
Where Are All the Heroes? The Refreshing Moral Vision of Lord of the Rings
Tolkien offers us a compelling vision for the importance of moral examples in the Christian life
Tolkien explained that one of the reasons for writing Lord of the Rings was “the elucidation of truth and the encouragement of good morals in this real world, by the ancient device of exemplifying them in unfamiliar embodiments, that may tend to ‘bring them home.’” Ralph Wood, author of The Gospel According to Tolkien, tells... Continue Reading