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The Babies Money Can Buy
“The ethical issues related to creating babies in labs and purchasing them as cattle will not go away as easily as the ethical concerns revolving around the larger practice.” This is a powerful article on an urgent subject. The repeated “Happy Mother’s Day” is both clever and tragic.
Deconstruction Is Sooo 2022!
Stephen McAlpine points out that we may have passed through peak deconstruction. “For a while at least. For a while back there it seemed that this thing was not going to bottom out any time soon, as big names left the church, always with a scolding for the church on the way out, as well as a nod and a wink to the secular culture.”
7 Tips for Leading a Bible Study
Anyone leading a Bible study or thinking about it will benefit from Colleen Searcy’s tips. “Throughout my twenty years of ministry and countless conversations with women in the church, I’ve found that many long to lead a Bible study, but few feel equipped to do so. Whether leading from a stage in a church auditorium or from the couch in your living room, here are seven tips that I’ve found to be effective.”
10 Arguments Against Physician-Assisted Suicide
Ewan Goligher: “Those who by virtue of their professional commitments as doctors accept responsibility for the suffering of others feel a weighty responsibility to ‘do something.’ Faced with incurable suffering, we feel the temptation to take matters into our own hands, as it were, ‘to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them.’ However, I maintain that causing death to relieve suffering cannot be justified in principle under any conditions.”
The Kingdom of God and Expectation Management
“Expectations are also dangerous. If reality does not match our expected vision of the future, disillusionment and discontentment can easily set in. It becomes tempting to unfavorably compare what God has actually given us with the fictional dream world of our imagination.”
Your Pastor Isn’t Your Therapist…And Your Therapist Isn’t Your Pastor.
Nicholas McDonald reminds Christians that their pastor can’t be a therapist and a therapist is not a pastor. “If ten years ago, people were asking too much of me as a pastor – to be both their therapist and shepherd – it’s almost like the script has reversed: the therapist has become not only a therapist, but a pastor.”
Flashback: Is Your Church Christian or Christianish?
There is nothing in all the world as precious as a truly Christian church. There is nothing in all the world as dangerous as one that is merely Christianish. Choose your church well.
We need not fear his strength will fail. God graciously meets our needs in a million ways, large and small, but this is a promise you can build your family on: God’s grace is enough.
—Anna Meade Harris
