tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330646082011-04-21T23:09:42.349-06:00Ephesians 1:15-23Kevin Rhynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09301648487774699607noreply@blogger.comBlogger1731100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33064608.post-79158617395285674452008-11-18T10:34:00.001-06:002008-11-18T10:34:20.527-06:00

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Haven’t posted here in a while and probably should update quite a bit. Nevertheless, this verse stood out to me today...To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. (Revelation 1:5-6 ESV)

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Frank Turk on the Virginia Tech murders and the Gospel.

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Jesse Johnson at Pulpit Online discusses the pros and cons of “Cold Evangelism.”“Many people try to hide their cowardice when it comes to proclaiming the gospel to their friends and family with the mask of cold evangelism. While they have never proclaimed the gospel to their friends, they are faithful to hit the streets every Sunday afternoon. Here at Grace Church, we do have street evangelism

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Dr. Mohler comments on the recent nomination of Dr. James Wilson Holsinger, Jr., to the position of Surgeon General of the United States. In this article, Mohler addresses why so many Democrats are opposing his nomination due to Dr. Holsinger’s past written opinions on homosexuality. Dr. Holsinger wrote these opinions in the context of church discipline and as a Christian.In other words, his

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Here is a thoughtful post by Phil Johnson on determining as believers when it is appropriate to fellowship or fight?

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I can’t imagine a better recommended reading list than from the guy who has read...everything...

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Here’s a story that should cause some pause for some of you. Imagine the police swarming your house and dragging off your teenager for a psych evaluation and ultimately placing her in a foster home. Why? She’s being homeschooled. Homeschooling is illegal in Germany. A Nazi-era prohibition, the ban grew out of Hitler's worry that too much parental control would supersede the state's influence. [

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How does the Gospel engage such issues as the environment? As Dean of the School of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Russell Moore testified before a Senate committee on the views of Religious Organizations regarding Global Warming. (HT : BTW)

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The guys at the ESV Blog posts some free tools to help you keep up with your bible reading.

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Here’s a post by John MacArthur on the so-called “Age of Accountability.” As a parent, this is a crucial topic for me to grasp. I hope it is helpful to you as well.

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For a clear demonstration of presuppositional apologetics and arguing from the worldview, check this debate out. Inconsistent Atheism meets ever-so-consistent Christianity - and it ain’t pretty for the atheist. There are six installments of this discussion. The links to all six are on CT’s website.Beautiful, just beautiful.

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Global Warming...pheh!

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Today’s Editorial Opinion of the New York Times features an article by Sam Brownback, Republican nominee for President in 2008. Sam addresses the false dichotomy between faith and reason often perpetuated on believers by using the litmus test of belief in evolution as the dividing line. It’s an interesting piece regardless of who your current favorite is for the campaign.

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What if Fred showed up as Frederika? Read Romans 1. You tell me...what is happening in this country?

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Interesting article on Al Mohler’s blog. Surprised? This time Mohler analyzes a paper written by psychologists who claim that the difficulties scientists are having in selling evolutionary biology to the majority of the public has to do with how we are mentally hardwired. He quotes a portion of the paper. The last several decades of developmental psychology has made it abundantly clear that

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Define irony.One country goes through revolution to set up an atheistic state. It murders its king and “purges” the land of god. The new leadership sets up the state as god.After almost one hundred years of oppression, murder, political and religious persecution, an economy in the toilet, and destroyed credibility as a super power, the atheistic one-party government is instrumental in reuniting

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Why study Church history? Doug Wilson posts some great thoughts on the necessity for lay Christians to be familiar with the ideas denounced by the Church in the past in order to confront those of the present.

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World Magazine cites a study suggesting that ages 2-3 are devolopmentally critical for the overall productivity in education. Splintering families do not help with that process.

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[I wrote this post last August for This Bread Always. I thought it would be good to bump it over here for Memorial Day weekend.]Today’s editorial in the Chicago Tribune pays tribute to Joe Rosenthal who passed away this weekend. Mr. Rosenthal is the photographer responsible for capturing the image of five Marines and a Navy corpman preparing to raise a second, bigger, flag at the island of Iwo

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Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:17-18These are the current prayer requests in our class as of May 27, 2007. Pray that God would be glorified in

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On Pulpit Magazine, John MacArthur discusses the importance of preaching and teaching doctrine. People often ask why I emphasize doctrine so much. Now and then someone tells me frankly that my preaching needs to be less doctrinal and more practical.Of course, practical application is vital. I don’t want to minimize its importance. But if there is a deficiency in preaching today, it is that there’

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Please pray for the Mills as John’s father is in the hospital for heart surgery this morning. Please also pray for Brent Nelson’s sister who is having surgery for a congenital heart defect.

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Al Mohler recommends a Dangerous Book for Boys. The Iggulden brothers believe that boys need to get away from the computer screen, go outside, and learn to enjoy the world and make their way in it. “Boyhood is all about curiosity,” they advise. Boys need to know how to build a treehouse and how to find north in the dark -- and they need to know that they know these things. As the brothers explain

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McCain has been getting a lot of press during his presidential bid, but not all of it is good. This incident reminds me of that verse in Proverbs, Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. Proverbs 16:32There are, of course, many others: Proverbs 14:29; Proverbs 15:1; Proverbs 15:18; and Proverbs 19:11, to name a few.

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Retirement is not in the vocabulary of the Bible.

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ESV Reverse Interlinear New Testament is a Christian Book Award finalist. Just to let you know...the Eminently Superior Version does it again. Also noted is the Archaelogical Study Bible, which I likewise highly recommend.

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So-called “population crackdowns” are ocurring in China. The government is imposing a social child-raising tax on anyone who gets pregnant without permission from the government and refuses to have an abortion. If they refuse to pay the tax, the government destroys the villagers’ property. In response, villagers are rioting.Compare this willingness to sacrifice property for the sake of having a

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Controversy in the Church is often shunned like the plague. However, every major orthodox doctrine of the Church has been the subject of controversy. Phil Johnson posts this excerpt from a sermon by J. Gresham Machen on controversy. Again, men say that instead of engaging in controversy in the Church, we ought to pray to God for a revival; instead of polemics, we ought to have evangelism. Well,

Kevin Rhynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09301648487774699607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33064608.post-53546739486941564342007-05-22T23:29:00.000-06:002007-05-23T06:23:37.124-06:00

The face of providence has been frowning on Paula Abdul. Paula Abdul broke her nose over the weekend after she fell while trying to avoid stepping on her Chihuahua, her publicist said Monday.Abdul was recovering from the mishap and will appear on ‘American Idol’ Tuesday and its season finale Wednesday, publicist David Brokaw said.‘She’s a little sore, but is doing fine,’ he said.As distressing as

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Check out this survey of American Muslims. I’m curious about your reactions to the findings. My thought as a believer is this: their being here saves me the cost of a plane ticket to there for missions. Do you agree?

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I want to highlight a great series that has been posted on Pulpit Magazine on the theology of the Roman church, namely the sufficiency of Scripture and the doctrine of faith alone. The articles by John MacArthur are great, but I specifically want to point you to the comments under each post where Papists weigh in with their rebuttals. Read their rebuttals and read also the responses from

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Al Mohler comments on what he calls “The Revenge of Conscience.” If you have not heard of selective reductions and their use by fertility doctors, be warned. Is this where unbridled freedom takes us?Have we now reached a point of no moral return? Mundy’s article forces us to face the fact that we have become a society that considers ‘selective reduction’ just part of what is necessary, given

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I thought this post was a good follow up to Fred’s sermon this Sunday. Here’s a quote: …It’s hard to know how to respond to stories of Christian persecution abroad. Of course it is easier to be a Christian in the United States. Ordinarily that would be a good thing; in important ways, our system works. Religious freedom is guaranteed and, in most cases, is protected. That is the way it should be

Kevin Rhynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09301648487774699607noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33064608.post-14022555992806173932007-05-20T22:28:00.000-06:002007-05-21T23:09:44.861-06:00

This seems to be a recurring theme in blogdom and the other media these days...any comments? Moms, are you bored with your kids?

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Yet another era ends...

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Justin Taylor has some ideas on “How to Raise a Biblical Theologian.”

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Frank Turk gets a good conversation going about current scientific research for the folically challenged...there’s some theology in there too...really.

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I’m only linking this because I went to Belmont...and, she was the best singer...

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Here’s a piece of advice on memorizing Scripture: pick a translation and stick with it. Confusion can set in very quickly if you get the paraphrase mixed up with the essentially literal. Although I own more Bible translations than I care to count, I really only use NIV, KJV, and ESV with any regularity -- ESV being my preference when possible. Even limiting my exposure to three versions, ask me

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Some ideas are just better left unsaid...

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One wonders if there are certain pharmaceuticals used as part of Muslim ritual...

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Phil Johnson discusses the clarity of Scripture and the means by which it is guarded within the Church at Pyromaniacs.

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The interesting thing about the latest Supreme Court opinion is the seeming rejection of Roe by the liberals as much as the conservatives. This creates for some interesting speculation on the future of abortion in Supreme Court jurisprudence. “Ginsburg complained that the partial-birth abortion ban ‘cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away’ not at Roe, but ‘at a right

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This is interesting...because it’s worked so well for the sales of rap CDs bearing similar warning labels.

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How do you define persecution? Does America fit the bill? If you’ve got an opinion, get in on the coversation.

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Frank Turk posts about the reactions to Falwell’s death, good and bad.

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This article by Michael Gerson of the Washington Post highlights some very interesting developments among those in the liberal churches of America. If you recall, a Nigerian conservative archbishop of the Anglican church has installed a missionary bishop in Northern Virginia. This has not been received well by the Episcopal Church here. I found this assessment of the situation interesting. “

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The Legacy of Dr. Jerry Falwell as penned by Dr. Albert Mohler.

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Television evangelist Jerry Falwell dies at 73.

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Here is the transcript of the panel discussion regarding Politics, Religion and the 2008 Election. Al Mohler was one of the panelists.

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Noel Piper on tips for helping your kids to learn to love to read.

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I’ve been following a debate between atheist Christopher Hitchens and theologian Douglas Wilsom on the Christianity Today website. However, Wilson has also bee critiquing Hitchen’s book, God is not Great. His comments on this chapter were very interesting. If militant atheists have their way, we are in for difficult times.

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I have not watched this debate as of yet. I’m going to try to sit down and focus on how it went sometime this week. I like Comfort’s approach to the law first, gospel second in evangelism. However, I’m uncertain how this works in a debate format. Here is one blogger’s analysis. What did you think?

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Find out what this monument is and why it is important...

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Josh at Unbound posts his “true confessions” on the first time he got to preach. Somehow, it rang familiar...

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Thoughts on grounding our doctrine in the Word and not our feelings. This is a challenging post with application to current events in the Evangelical world.

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Hmm... and hmm...

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“We want them to talk to us,” say parents of Down syndrome children to mothers who are contemplating aborting babies diagnosed with potentially being afflicted with the disease. Al Mohler comments on the plea of these mothers and fathers for the lives of the unborn.As rank-and-file church members, we are often not involved in the struggle for lives of the unborn. It is to our shame. I pray the

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[Rebecca informed me that my link to the statute had expired. I have updated to another link that I believe will be more permanent. Let me know what you think.]Here is the hate crimes legislation referenced yesterday. I am still looking into why this would affect pastors teaching the biblical position on homosexuality. I just don’t see it.Hate crimes legislation is a waste of time, surely.

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At the bottom of the page, I have placed two buttons. One is for NewsGator, the feed reader I use. The other is for AddThis, which will get you to just about any feed reader out there. I hope this will help you get updates on this blog, and others you might enjoy, online rather than wait for me to send you an email on the updates.Here’s a button that should get you to any feed reader you want:

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Here is a link to a class by James White on Bibliology, or the study of how we got the cannon, what is inspiration, etc. Hope you enjoy...the link contains audio and written materials. How cool is that?!

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As I mentioned before, it seems that our church is certainly undergoing its share of grief. When Rome fell in the 4th century a Bishop named Augustine wrote City of God to remind the believers of that time that our hope rests in the Christ of Heaven, not in the professed security built by Man. From time to time we need to be reminded of the reasons for the hope that is within us. I recently

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Parents of boys should read the rest of this article by Dr. Mohler. The emergence of a generation of boys and young men who have never been told “no” by an adult who meant it, who include a large percentage who had no father in the home, who were put on Ritalin instead of taught and disciplined, tells us a great deal about ourselves as a society.The Army’s challenge is to transform several

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Please pray for a co-worker of Richard. His father had a stroke about a week and a half ago. He is still at Baylor Hospital in the intensive care unit. Reggie Kelly’s dad is still having some occasional minor strokes and is on life support at the moment. Pray for Reggie as he travels and as he tries to lift up his Mom during this time.

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This magazine, published by Ligioneer Ministries, focused its April 2007 issue on Grief in response to the shootings at Virginia Tech. I thought they would be helpful for other situations as well.We seem to have an overflowing cup of grief in our Body right now. May the God of all comfort be a comfort to those who are hurting...

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John takes a simple, common situation and shows how our typical reactions to circumstances can reveal hidden idolatries. Extrapolate this to more serious circumstances...we define sin too narrowly, I think.

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Joe Thorn gives practical advice for those thinking of entering the pastorate. Point number 1? 1. Don’t. If you can do anything outside of the pastorate and find satisfaction in it - do that. Full time, vocational ministry - and the pastorate in particular - is difficult and places unique pressures on your life, marriage and family. Even those who are called by God to serve in this way must be

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Here is an idea on something to do for your child before you give them a Bible.

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Abraham Piper writes on dealing with a wayward child from experience. Not as a parent, but as the lost son. I hope this is helpful.

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Here is an interesting post and discussion on the merits of Public, Private, or Home-School.

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Why Johnny can’t read, but knows what he should vote when the time comes.

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Yeah, I know...I'm a geek. I even read blogs put out by Bible translation publishers. Here's a post on reading through the Bible in a year starting anytime.

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Does this mean there will be another documentary on the Discovery Channel?

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This morning Becca received news that her step-father passed away unexpectedly. Pray for the Halls as they travel to attend the funeral and comfort Becca’s mother.

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Comments on the religious trends in the West. I don’t know what to make of this. Just because the society is recognizing the bankruptcy of materialistic naturalism doesn’t necessarily translate to a return to Christianity. The plurality of tolerant religions was at its zenith in the first and second centuries. Yet, the exclusivity of Christ’s claims in the Gospels set Christians apart for

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Here are some suggestions on beginning your study of the early Church Fathers.

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Well then...I guess it’s over...

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Al Mohler comments on the arrival of the Nigerian Anglican archbishop to appoint one of his bishops as a missionary to the United States. Although begged not to come by the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA, Katharine Jefferts Schori, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the Nigerian Archbishop has come anyway, clearly demonstrating his belief that communion with the

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“Hate Crime” legislation seems to have passed our Democratic controlled House of Representatives. This bill is purported to attempt to limit pastors who openly state the Bible’s views on homosexuality. I have not read the bill at this time. Stay tuned...

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Are Mormons in the Mainstream? is the latest question addressed by Dr. Al Mohler on the On Faith series. Read the comments after you read his answer. Always interesting...

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Martin Luther addresses our constant need to be reminded of the gospel.

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Here’s what John Piper preached.

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Justin Taylor posts on a recent Reuters report that estimates the value of a Stay-at-Home Mom.

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Remember that May 12th is the date for the fellowship over at the Goode’s. Please contact Christi and Marty for details.

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As science marches on, the logic sustaining the brutal murder of the unborn is vanishing. Al Mohler comments on an article in Slate magazine, of all places, entitled, "The Fetus is Squirming, and So Are We".

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Is this a beginning?

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Here is a sweet excerpt from a sermon by Charles Spurgeon on the preservation of the saints. We are in His hand. No one, no thing, no circumstance will pluck us out.

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Well, no...unless coughing keeps you from witnessing, I guess. But, here is an interesting article on the costs of Bibles being linked to none other than Chinese smoking. A butterfly flaps its wings...

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You can read about the Miller family’s adventures in Vietnam. They’ve been blogging periodically since they arrived.

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Interesting...

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Here is encouragement from those at Desiring God to not skip over any of the facts contained in the Bible with your kids, regardless of their seeming significance.

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John Piper on the recent Supreme Court Decision concerning the Partial Birth Abortion ban.

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Al Mohler writes about the gender-neutral movement in liberal churches and specifically focuses on the push to remove use of the name “Lord” from the Church.

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Here is the first post from the Children Desiring God conference. The First Plenary Session features a sermon by John Piper and some free resources to boot.

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The real issue here is which version did the judge use. The HCSB, ESV, NIV? Inquiring minds want to know.

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John MacArthur offers insight to the tragic events at Virginia Tech.

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John Piper posts an epitaph written by a missionary in the event of her own death. It was found after she was killed by unknown assailants while a missionary in Iraq.

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Al Mohler discusses a recent interview by the Boston Globe of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church USA. In the interview, Ms. Schori asserts that the African Churches who oppose the unbiblical ordination of homosexual clergy are living in the dark ages. However, time, she claims, is on her side.

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