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The Pearl Perspective's Liz Green Majors on Church Abuse and Recovery.
5+ day, 10+ min ago (281+ words) I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and…...
Some Pastors Seem to Believe That They Are the Daddy to the Church Members. Other Pastors Barely Engage. Then, There are the Others
1+ week, 2+ day ago (413+ words) I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did…...
Lessons From Burk Parsons" St Andrew"s Chapel: When Membership Covenants Are a Means for Pastors to Control the Members.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (869+ words) @ESA's Euclid mission released its first science images, including views of a large cluster of thousands of distant galaxies, close-ups of two nearby galaxies, a gravitationally bound group of stars called a globular cluster, and a nebula, or a cloud…...
Five Views of Christian Nationalism: Al Mohler and Doug Wilson and Joe Rigney, Oh My!
2+ week, 5+ day ago (989+ words) My concern in this post was a drift of the SBC toward the more rigid views of Doug Wilson. I asked Wade if I was being overly dramatic, but he assured me I wasn't. Here's what I wrote in that…...
Placerita Bible Church Is Accused of Using Revenge Porn in an Attempt to Stop a Pending Divorce. This Is Considered Biblical Counseling?
3+ week, 20+ hour ago (723+ words) Jupiter swirling clouds or an artist's palette? NASA "According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a…...
Honoring the Well-Lived Life of Dr John Lennox: Mathematician, Theologian, and Servant
3+ week, 2+ day ago (438+ words) God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which gives rise to the very…...
Astronauts Have Taken Communion, Even on the Moon. Mark Dever's 9 Marks Will Only Give Communion to Acceptable Members Who Are in the Building.
3+ week, 4+ day ago (997+ words) In all of this emptiness " this whole bunch of nothing we call the universe " you have this oasis [of earth], this beautiful place that we get to exist in together." Victor Glover After Glover finished his spread of lamb chops,…...
The Gospel Coalition Sees Only Lay Elders(Men) Doing Visitation and Other Activities to Help Out Busy Pastors. Why Not Women?
1+ mon, 20+ hour ago (510+ words) Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others." CS Lewis It appears the SBC is reversing direction. Willy Rice, the new president of the SBC, was featured…...
Women Preached at Capitol Hill Baptist Church Throughout Its History. They Can't Today.
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (381+ words) If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next. St. Jerome I want to thank "Jerome," a longtime…...
Mark Driscoll Says He's Going to Sue His Former Leaders of the Real Men and Real Women Ministries For MIsusing Contact Lists
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (851+ words) A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." GK Chesterton I have been writing about Mark Driscoll since 2009. He was once a darling of The Gospel Coalition, and there seems to…...