A million dollar difference
The major an undergraduate chooses makes a big difference in lifetime earnings potential
The surveys showed that science and engineering majors had a significant advantage because they were more likely to find consistent, full-time employment. Students that graduated with more popular majors - such as the visual and performing arts, communications, education, literature, languages and psychology - earned an average of $55,000 a year and 50 percent suffered from seasons of unemployment
“Why Did My Daddy Leave?”
Ministering To A Child Whose Father Has Abandoned The Family
What I did say is she needed to know a common way God is at work in the lives of all Christians, regardless our age. God teaches us some amazing lessons when we suffer. We may not see them now, but we will see them clearer when some time has passed. I believe this smart little girl as well as other children can begin to understand this merciful quality about our sovereign God.
Don’t Be Sidelined by the Gender Debate
The debate over gender roles can distract women from serving with all their might in the church.
It's tempting to focus on one aspect of church involvement closed to women rather than rejoice over the hundreds of ways we can and should be serving. If I am not a pastor, does that mean my service means less? Not so, according to Paul, who teaches us to take joy in working hard for God in every way he has gifted us, for the benefit of the body and to God's glory.
Persecution, Pain, and Jesus
Persecuting and Hurting the Faithful
What about the fellowship fall-out at Rome, the moral problems in Corinth, the confusion in Galatia, the disagreement among the women of the church in Philippi, the misunderstanding of the Christian life at Colossae, the difficulties in Thessalonica? These were the churches Paul loved, because these were the churches Jesus loved.
Am I A Solider of the Cross?
The Cadence of Psalm 27 from the viewpoint of David, the Soldier
As prayerful reflection on the truths that we find in Psalm 17 brought divine perspective to Isaac Watts, it did so for David and for countless others Soldiers of the Cross. So let it bring optimistic hope to you in Jesus Christ our Lord. For this Psalm is about Him, anticipates Him, and follows the Gospel pattern of seeing that the things that come against us are really the things, like the Cross brought Resurrection, the things that lead us home.
Our Shining City on a Hill?
A review of In Search of the City on a Hill, Richard M. Gamble, (Continuum, 2012)
Do you believe that America is the “city on a hill” that Christ was referring to in his Sermon on the Mount? Are there more than one of these cities? Was Jesus talking about a civil nation at all, or was this a metaphor of the church?
Solus Christus: the Supremacy of Jesus Christ
Theme for the Reformation Society of Indiana Fall Conference
The Reformation Society of Indiana will be hosting their Fall Conference at Second Reformed Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana again this year. Dates are November 16th and 17th.
Episcopal Church Abandons Bishop and Diocese
The Other Side of the Story, from the Diocese of South Carolina
For that reason, we have disassociated ourselves from the Episcopal Church and will meet again in Convention on November 17th to consider further responses to these actions by the denomination we helped found. By God's grace, we look forward to many more generations freely exercising the faith first brought to these shores so many generations before us.
The Most Religious American President?
Which of our presidents was the most religious — anyway, the most observant?
Theodore Roosevelt’s name at the top of the list of religiously observant presidents might surprise some people, yet that surprise would itself bear witness to the nature of his faith: privately held, but permeating countless speeches, writings, and acts … He was of the Dutch Reformed Church. He participated in missions work with his father,... Continue Reading
Ceremonial and the Reformed Churches (Part 2)
In worship, the ceremonial is unavoidable; even the plainest worship may be aided by a well thought out ceremonial
The liturgy is always the starting point for considering a service. Its structure informs not only the real progression from one element of worship to the next, but it produces an atmosphere through its words and its shape. The dramatic layering of elements in the pre-Reformation Mass greatly contrasts with the one-thing-at-a-time approach of Reformed... Continue Reading