Family-friendly video service VidAngel has been ordered to shut down. This isn’t a great surprise as their solution was a very creative workaround to copyright laws. VidAngel is appealing the decision.
This is a good bit of analysis and application by Thomas Kidd. “There’s no doubt that active social media is not for everyone. If it causes you non-stop angst and frustration, you should consider dropping it.” But there’s more to the story…
Melissa has an important reflection today: “It is possible to grieve the end of our plans while still maintaining hope for the future. It’s possible to beg God for one outcome, and still praise Him in the middle of a different outcome. It’s possible to love and trust God when He doesn’t choose to rescue us or a loved one. It’s completely possible to be living through the most horrific hell we can imagine on this earth and still love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.”
This Day in 1853. 163 years ago today Wesleyan abolitionists founded the Illinois Institute. This school would later become Wheaton College after Warren Wheaton, a local landowner, made a sizeable property donation. *
“A new report documents how the unsafe conditions and practices at abortion clinics like Planned Parenthood are a public health crisis that endangers women.” Joe Carter summarizes and interprets it.
I want the blessing and the joy that comes with obedience, with conformity to Christ. The question is, do I want it enough to endure temptation for it?
Every generation of Christian has to learn that whining is an affront against God’s sovereignty and goodness.
This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Reformed Free Publishing Association, who also sponsored the blog this week with their article “What Is God’s Calling For Me?” They are offering a free copy of Finding My Vocation: A Guide to Young People Seeking a Calling to each of ten winners. How can I pick…
It has always been important that children establish their identity. From the time kids are young, they are being formed in a host of ways and gradually coming to terms with who they are and who they will become. Historically, identity arose from outside—from the people they came from, the place they were born, and…
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Of all the elements that once made up traditional Protestant worship, there is probably none that has fallen on harder times than prayer. It is not unusual to visit a church today and find that prayer is perfunctory, rare, or absent altogether. If that is true of prayer in general, it is particularly true of…
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