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Monergism Announces Redesign
Monergism has redesigned their site. This is phase 1 of what they hope will be a 2-stage overhaul. It looks good!
Bad Boys Turned Christian
Owen Strachan: “A recent NYT article chronicled an encouraging if unexpected development: a bunch of professional skateboarders and bike riders are boldly witnessing to their faith in Christ.”
A Hymn for Ordinary Christians
Bob Kauflin writes about “Great Is Thy Faithfulness.” “The story behind Great is Thy Faithfulness should encourage every Christian who thinks of their life as ordinary. There’s no tragic story (think “It Is Well” by Horatio Spafford) associated with this hymn. It’s just the fruit of a faithful man with a simple faith in a faithful God.”
Rose, Laura and Little House
This article at the New Yorker tries to understand the working relationship of Rose Wilder Lane and Laura Ingalls Wilder as they sought to write the books that Laura has become known for.
The Case for Early Marriage
Dr. Mohler discusses an article in the latest edition of Christianity Today. “In ‘The Case for Early Marriage,’ sociologist Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas in Austin argues that far too many American evangelicals have attempted to deal with sex without understanding marriage. In particular, he asserts that the ‘prevailing discourse of abstinence culture in contemporary American evangelicalism’ has run aground.”
Too Critical? On the Contrary…
I enjoyed this article in The Globe and Mail about critical book reviews. “As Philip Marchand, one of this nation’s few critics willing to appear negative, once put it: ‘If I have erred as a critic, I have erred by being too appreciative. I don’t think there’s a single negative word about any author’s book that I would take back, but I seriously wonder about some of the praise I have dispensed.’”
How Whitefield Studied the Bible
Looking to Dallimore’s biography of Whitefield, Ray Ortlund shows how Whitefield studied Scripture.
Monergism has redesigned their site. This is phase 1 of what they hope will be a 2-stage overhaul. It looks good!
Bad Boys Turned Christian
Owen Strachan: “A recent NYT article chronicled an encouraging if unexpected development: a bunch of professional skateboarders and bike riders are boldly witnessing to their faith in Christ.”
A Hymn for Ordinary Christians
Bob Kauflin writes about “Great Is Thy Faithfulness.” “The story behind Great is Thy Faithfulness should encourage every Christian who thinks of their life as ordinary. There’s no tragic story (think “It Is Well” by Horatio Spafford) associated with this hymn. It’s just the fruit of a faithful man with a simple faith in a faithful God.”
Rose, Laura and Little House
This article at the New Yorker tries to understand the working relationship of Rose Wilder Lane and Laura Ingalls Wilder as they sought to write the books that Laura has become known for.
The Case for Early Marriage
Dr. Mohler discusses an article in the latest edition of Christianity Today. “In ‘The Case for Early Marriage,’ sociologist Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas in Austin argues that far too many American evangelicals have attempted to deal with sex without understanding marriage. In particular, he asserts that the ‘prevailing discourse of abstinence culture in contemporary American evangelicalism’ has run aground.”
Too Critical? On the Contrary…
I enjoyed this article in The Globe and Mail about critical book reviews. “As Philip Marchand, one of this nation’s few critics willing to appear negative, once put it: ‘If I have erred as a critic, I have erred by being too appreciative. I don’t think there’s a single negative word about any author’s book that I would take back, but I seriously wonder about some of the praise I have dispensed.’”
How Whitefield Studied the Bible
Looking to Dallimore’s biography of Whitefield, Ray Ortlund shows how Whitefield studied Scripture.
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Excelent article on “the case for early marriage”
My 27th birthday is quickly approaching, and believe me, I want to get married. So I struggle reading articles about early marriage, but I don’t seem to have control over when I get married.
Maybe something is wrong with my computer or maybe the’re just not done with it, but to me, the “new” Monergism looks bad. It looks like an armature web designer got a hold of it. Hopefully it’s just under construction and the finished product will look good. This is just an honest opinion regarding a website (and ministry) I dearly love.
With the marriage deal: I’m guessing one of the largest factors is the increase in the percentage of people who attend college. That, and a decrease in the desire of many people to have large families. If you’re only going to have two kids, then its more feasible to start “late”, meaning you can also marry “late”.
With college, many people (myself included) arrive with the notion that they shouldn’t even contemplate marriage until they’re done with their degree. In retrospect, that’s pretty dumb. Though, it would have made matters more complicated since I was being financially supported by my parents.
I’m with C. M. Sheffield… love Monergism… but this definitely looks like a big step back. Tim, didn’t you just redesign it? That iteration looked much better!
I don’t know who still thinks that BMX and skate kids are “bad boys” - I mean most of them were/are bored surbanites, not exactly MS13 material.
From Dr. Mohler’s blog post, I glean:
**Singleness is a gift from a loving Creator Who doesn’t want singles to use the other so-called “gifts of sexual maturation, fertility, and sexual desire.”**There is great loss in being single. **Every single rejects and does not fulfill adult / mature responsibilities.
Thanks you for these tidbits Dr. Mohler and to everyone here that agrees that Dr. Mohler’s discussion is a great.
Mohler is spot on in regards to marriage. Go to college together, grow more mature together, make a life together. You needn’t wait until you are in your late 20s or 30s. Marriage is God’s plan for the vast majority of us. He creates our sexual maturity and we are clearly mature by young adulthood. To pretend otherwise is to provoke ourselves into sin.
Thank you Nathan!
What I meant to say in my earlier post is that I am not going to sit around, waiting to be married. I live a quite fulfilling life as single adult!
And it is NOT a sin for me to be unmarried.
I see Mohler’s indulging in his favorite sport again, namely attempting to shame single men into marriage. Personally, i believe the decision when, or even whether, to get married belongs to each guy and is no-one’s business but his.
Actually, I delayed marriage until the ripe old age of 27 (and I didn’t indulge in pre-marital sex). My only regret is that I didn’t delay it permanently.