James WhiteAs you near the beginning of your sixth decade of life on this planet, if you are awake, if you are thinking, if you are looking beyond the mundane facts of existence, you start thinking about not only what you are going to leave behind as a…
Pros Apologian
The battle for and against the constitutional ban on gay marriage has kicked into full swing in Minnesota six months ahead of the vote due to President Barack Obama’s recent support of same-sex marriage.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation’s oldest African American civil rights group, voted Saturday to support a resolution endorsing same-sex marriage at its board meeting in Miami, Fla.
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Reading for Today:
2 Samuel 11:1–12:31
Psalm 65:9-13
Proverbs 16:13-15
John 6:22-51
Notes:
2 Samuel 11:3 Bathsheba. Not until 12:24 is her name used again. Rather, to intensify the sin of adultery, it is emphasized that she was …
Grace to You
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How to Thrive in College
By Alex Chediak
College should be a temporary season of academic preparation and personal growth to propel a lifetime of effective service to God and neighbor. It should be a launching pad into all that goes with responsible Christian adulthood. Yet for some it’…
Alex Chediak
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It was one thing for President Obama to call for the legalization of same-sex marriage. But it was quite another to say that it’s Jesus who causes him to embrace this position. Today people sometimes say that Jesus never condemned homosexuality.
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An Idaho first-grader’s plan to perform a song by worship singer Chris Tomlin using sign language for a talent show is back on track after the school’s principal originally banned the entry, deeming the song “too religious.”
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Puritan Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity:
If anything can make us rise off our bed of sloth, and serve God with all our might, it should be this, the hope of our near enjoyment of God forever.
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Tony Reinke
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A group of influential black ministers – some of whom are connected with the fifth largest denomination in the U.S. – gathered Thursday in one of the nation’s most famous civil rights cities to ask President Obama to reverse his stance on same-sex …
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Columnist Kelly Boggs notes a double standard in California, where a teenager can obtain an abortion without parental consent but a state legislator wants to keep teens from receiving a therapy that could help them overcome homosexual attraction.
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A believer in Central Asia, amid months of imprisonment for his faith, is seeing fellow inmates turn to Christ. His wife and daughter, though they miss him, are comforted by the spiritual harvest.
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It might be tempting, on this 200th commissioning anniversary of the first ordained American foreign missionaries, to directly attribute the current status of global Christianity to their courageous obedience to the Great Commission. Even limiting the …
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Pastor Steven Khoury from Holy Land Missions in Jerusalem has received a 30-day notice of eviction from the owner of the building where his church currently worships.
“The pressure from the Muslim community is so strong that the landlord is given…
Persecution.com NewsRoom
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A few days ago I shared John Bunyan’s wisdom on why some who profess faith in Christ eventually backslide. Today I want to follow him a little bit farther. Having covered the why, I’ve now drawn from Pilgrim’s Progress instruction on …
Tim
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One of the things you notice as you look across the various creeds and confessions is that some excel at warmth while others can be wonderful statements but a bit colder. Some facilitate corporate confession better than others, while others, lacking that corporate friendliness, excel at doctrinal order, logic, and precision. Each has its merits, [...]
Confessions and Catechisms, 2
Thabiti Anyabwile
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Why should we care about how human corpses are treated? Your answer depends on your worldview.
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There is plenty of talk these days about which term or terms to use when defining those who belong to Christ. I know it can be tempting to want to define “disciple” differently than you define “Christian.” I was actually toying with that idea myself a …
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Christian Graduates Need a Christian Worldview
By Nathan W. Bingham
Families are rejoicing across America as their sons and daughters are graduating and looking forward to college. Sadly, not every graduate will go to college with a fully formed Christian worldview. In addition to the temptations of the world, they wil…
Nathan W. Bingham
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Is a molar pregnancy really a baby? Does it have a gender? Does aborting it end a life? Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, AiG–U.S., explains.
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A jury found May 17 that the Florida Baptist Convention is liable for failing to do an adequate background check…
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General and Special Revelation — A Reformed Appro ...
By Keith Mathison
In this series of blog posts, we have been discussing Dr. R.C. Sproul’s answer to a question about the age of the universe during the Q&A at Ligonier’s 2012 National Conference. In the previous post, we stopped in the middle of his answer to discu…
Keith Mathison
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Classroom Starters: After the global Flood, how did animals get to islands such as the Galapagos? For the older student: How do the differences in the beaks of finches living on the Galapagos Islands point to gene segregation and created design instead of natural selection and evolution? Dinner Table Starters: What animals might you see on the Galapagos Islands that you could not see … Read More »
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Josh Etter joins today’s episode of Behind the Blog for the background of how we learned about the amazing story of Ian & Larissa. Tony talks about why superheros matter, I discuss tweeting through 1 Corinthians, and David gives the rundown on our upcoming National Conference in September.
"Five-minutes or less" turned into seven minutes this week.
You can also listen here.
Blog posts mentioned in this episode:
- The Story of Ian & Larissa by John Piper
- The Avenger by Tony Reinke
- The Book of 1 Corinthians in 40 Tweets by Jonathan Parnell
- Announcing Our 2012 National Conference by Scott Anderson
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- Behind the Blog: Fourth Man in the Furnace
- Behind the Blog: Dead Guys Ran Dry
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Jonathan Parnell
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Despite its Christian roots, America falls short in following many biblical teachings. Judy Woodward Bates examines key statistics in economics, marriage, family and consumption in view of Scripture.
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North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell has announced new missionary placements for five several states in the Northeast — Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, South New Jersey and Vermont — that have not had a full-time missionary fully fund…
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As the Supreme Court has ruled, obscene pornographic material is not protected by the First Amendment. Yet at the behest of the current administration, federal prosecutors — whose job it is to help quarantine the infectious and illegal porn pandemic f…
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Today, users of the Twittersphere have been offering up their weaknesses to God by using the hash tag
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Today, users of the Twittersphere have been offering up their weaknesses to God by using the hash tag
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Last year, one of the world’s largest online dating sites released results of a survey they took of 5,200 singles. Said to be the most comprehensive poll of its type ever taken, the survey of 21- to 65-year-olds (and older) reported that 72 percent of …
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Jeremiah Burrough’s The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment is one of the most important and personally-impactful Puritan works I’ve ever read. Let me give you just a taste of what Burroughs has to say about contentment. Here he shares eigh…
Tim
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The Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, better known as Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), filed an emergency motion in Orange County Superior Court last week to prevent The Orange County Register from publishing information against the network con…
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Email DOES NOT WORK! It often drags out the conflict way longer that it should be. It can easily be misinterpreted, thus causing new conflicts.
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We should long to see everyone in our circle of influence (and outside of it for that matter) receive the forgiveness, life and hope of Jesus.
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Reading for Today:
2 Samuel 9:1–10:19
Psalm 65:1-8
Proverbs 16:20-21
John 6:1-21
Notes:
2 Samuel 9:8 dead dog. A “dead dog” was considered contemptible and useless. Mephibosheth saw himself as such in that he knew that…
Grace to You
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Graduation is a high moment. It’s like a wedding of sorts. All the many investments — the questions needing answers, the costs needing to be weighed — rise together in a public crescendo of accomplishment. Congratulations, here’s your degree.
Ton…
Jonathan Parnell
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Security agents in Sudan’s South Darfur state have closed the offices of the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC) and relief group Sudan Aid in the state’s capital, Nyala. Meanwhile, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir continues his push to rid the Nuba Mount…
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If you’ve explored our Resource Library, you’ve likely discovered our Online Books section, which contains over 60 John Piper titles available in English as free downloads.
What you may not have discovered is the tab that enables you to sort them &…
Tyler Kenney
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We pray thee, assist us in all the religious services of this thine own holy day. Go along with us to the solemn assembly, for if thy presence go not up with us, wherefore should we go up? Give us to draw nigh to thee with a true heart, with a free hea…
Michael McKinley
by Phil Johnson love the idea of unity built on a gospel foundation, but the success or failure of that idea hinges on our understanding of and commitment to a true, unadulterated, biblical understanding of the gospel. We know fr…
Phil Johnson
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This week’s Free Stuff Fridays is sponsored by Peacemaker Ministries. They will be giving away five sets of the following five books from the “peacemaking line” at Baker Books:The Peacemaker, by Ken Sande – The foundational …
Tim
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Feed My Sheep – Feed My Sheep, a book that includes contributions from men like John MacArthur, R.C. Sproul and Sinclair Ferguson has been marked down to just $0.99 in the Kindle version. Why not also grab The Hidden Life of Prayer ($0.99) and rea…
Tim
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Newsweek Declares Obama ‘The First Gay President’… How to win a culture war and lose a generation… Mobile Phones Help Weaken North Korean Isolation Keep Reading
Albert Mohler
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The same basic kind of fish, called the stickleback, inhabits salt or fresh water and lakes or streams. Strikingly, however, those living in salt water are much larger and have different colors and different scale armor than their freshwater counterp…
Science Update from ICR
In the wake of President Obama's declaration of his personal support for the right of same-sex couples to marry under…
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James White
Invested the first hour in continuing my response to Matthew Vines’ presentation on homosexuality. We only have about 15 minutes left in his presentation, but, the last 15 minutes contain the most emotionally-charged materials, so I figure we still have a solid 45 minutes to an hour to go. I hope to finish the response next week. Then we will take that material and put it into a single file for download and distribution. The second hour was split between a brief discussion of George Bryson’s “The Biblical Doctrines of Grace” presentation and a continuation, and possibly finishing up, my review of Adnan Rashid’s debate with Jay Smith in Dublin. Here’s the program.
And don’t forget the WayBack Machine, streaming Dividing Lines from 1998 onward 24/7! You can listen on the Flash Player found here.
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Today, users of the Twittersphere have been offering up their weaknesses to God by using the hash tag
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Two churches — one with 80 members, the other with 1,100 — begin their work through Southern Baptists’ Embrace initiative to reach one of the world’s 3,800 unreached, unengaged people groups, 500 of which can be found in Europe, and establish an acti…
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A pastor friend recently emailed me with the following question:
In a pastoral counseling or shepherding situation, when do you say, “I have nothing else to give,” and move on?
My elders are working very hard on a seemingly endless l…
Jonathan Leeman
Today, users of the Twittersphere have been offering up their weaknesses to God by using the hash tag
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A court acquitted a Christian couple of “blasphemy” charges Thursday, overturning their life sentences, their lawyer said.
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The word “walking” speaks of regularity, of moving at a certain pace. The Bible tells us in Genesis 5 about Enoch, who walked with God. But what does it mean to “walk with God?
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I Have Friends
By R.C. Sproul Jr.
It was, I suspect, somewhat early on in the growth of the “accountability” movement. I had heard the concept, but had not given it much study. The deacon at the church I attended as a young married man apparently had studied it. And so, seemingly with …
R.C. Sproul Jr.
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The Executive Board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention voted unanimously to accept a $9 million offer for the convention’s office space in Brentwood, Tenn.
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Heritage Keepers, an abstinence-based sex education curriculum offered by Heritage Community Services in Charleston, S.C., has been approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after it was found to be effective in delaying sexual initi…
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A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a New York State town government’s practice of opening nearly every meeting with a Christian prayer over the past 11 years is unconstitutional.
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J. Warner Wallace from Please Convince Me is guest hosting Sunday 2-5 p.m. PT. He’ll be taking your calls. And he’ll interview Jonathan Morrow on his latest book Think Christianly: Looking at the Intersection of Faith and Culture. Listen live on the air or stream it on the STR app…
Melinda
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We humans are creatures of days and dates, though most fade quickly into the fog of memory. Researchers have recently identified a newly discovered phenomenon called “hyperthymesia,” more commonly known as “autobiographical memory.…
Albert Mohler
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A reader of my blog asked: “In Matthew 5:27-32, Jesus said it is better to take out your eye and cut off your hand if it causes you to sin, because that is better than going to hell. Why, then, don’t Christians actually do that? If we take w…
Randy Alcorn
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$5 Friday: Apologetics, Suffering, & Theology
By Nathan W. Bingham
This week’s $5 Friday sale has resources that cover such topics as apologetics, suffering, theology, worldviews, God’s promises, and more. Thanks to Reformation Heritage Books for partnering with us this week.
Sale runs through 12:01 a….
Nathan W. Bingham
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This Bible study for Sunday, April 29, is adapted from the YOU! curriculum published by LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Today, users of the Twittersphere have been offering up their weaknesses to God by using the hash tag
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