Distinguishing Helping from Enabling
Learning to help instead of enabling calls for discernment
For both men and women, helping requires great care, discernment, and commitment. It takes a good theology of who God is, who man is, and what God’s Word reveals to us about his work in Christ. Are we properly equipped? When you help, you are providing a need or service that supports another. Helping contributes... Continue Reading
Former Church Council Chief Urges Christianity to Abandon “Exclusivity”
Leaders says Jesus is not for Christians only, but for all religions
In Campbell’s reinterpretation, this scripture is not Christ’s call for the church’s unity under His Lordship but for global unity because it “relates to all of humankind.” She urged a “Jesus not owned by Christians but Who cares for all. An embracing Jesus.” Former National Council of Churches chief Joan Brown Campbell, in her... Continue Reading
Your Feelings Don’t Define You
We are new creations, not those defined by our temptations
Someone who practiced immorality before Jesus saved them will probably experience sexual temptations all their lives. Homosexuals who come to Jesus will probably continue to struggle with same-sex desires. In some instances Jesus removes these desires. Lots of the time he doesn’t. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the... Continue Reading
The Daddy Guilt
Sometimes accepting that we need rest is the best thing to being a good father
The simple fact is that I need rest. With the march of age and the weight of responsibility, Aileen and I need it more than the children do. I believe I served them better by taking a few days to not rush around, to not expend a lot of effort and energy, but instead to enjoy deep rest. ... Continue Reading
10 Ways the Law Exalts Jesus
Used correctly, the Law points us to Christ
The law not only shows us our need for Jesus’ death but also explains the nature of it. If we look at it from the human viewpoint, the death of Jesus was the greatest act of lawlessness ever perpetrated. If we look at it from the divine viewpoint we see the justice of the law... Continue Reading
The Profoundly Wicked Roots of Planned Parenthood
Margaret Sanger was never concerned for children or family, but was keen on her own promiscuity
Margaret, though, was quite keen on promiscuity, and her life course was set. Though she was too cunning to campaign under the banner of free love and freedom from the burden of children, that was her heartbeat. She chose contraception as her cause and was heralded for efforts in “family planning,” even though her personal... Continue Reading
Egypt Burns
As the military meets a violent Muslim Brotherhood, an ancient civilization that includes Egypt's Christians endures a brutal backlash
Robert George of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom called the violence against Christian churches and businesses “unprecedented in modern Egypt, both in its scope and the number of churches and structures attacked.” At one of the region’s oldest monasteries, the Virgin Mary Monastery near Assiut, priest Selwanes Lotfy said on Aug. 18, “We... Continue Reading
NM Supreme Court: Christian photographers must shoot gay ‘commitment ceremony’
Court declares multicultural society takes precedence over one's beliefs
“Jim Crow is alive and well and living at the New Mexico Supreme Court, and Christian is the new black,” Bryan Fischer said on his AFR Talk program “Focal Point” this afternoon. The Supreme Court of New Mexico has ruled that Christian photographers do not have the right to decline photographing a gay “wedding,”... Continue Reading
What Is Discernment?
Excerpt from free E-book, this month only
True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best. Someone I know recently expressed an... Continue Reading
Teens and Unrestricted Access: Time to Repent
6 pieces of advice for parents who have dropped the ball on monitoring their teenagers internet use
Almost any parent can switch into combat mode and wield the heavy hand of authority. But it takes grace from God to be a parent who sits down and converses with his or her child. Tell your teens why you are placing certain restrictions on their phone, talk to them about the various idols of... Continue Reading