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(Yesterday on the blog: The Great Rewiring of Childhood)
Rome Is Not Our Home: Live Counterculturally During Election Season
This article offers some helpful perspectives on living as Christians during politically-charged times.
Borrowing a Death
“When was the last time you were at a funeral when someone didn’t take the opportunity to talk about their own life when eulogizing the person who has died? We all do it. It’s nearly impossible not to.” In this sense, Glenna says, it’s often wise to “borrow” a death.
The Many Ministries of Godly Women
Keri Folmar describes and celebrates the many ministries of godly women.
When We Lose Loved Ones and Have Regrets
Nick Batzig says “We don’t have to be weighed down with perpetual regrets for not having loved believers as we ought to have loved them here and now.” This is a very freeing thought.
Should Ethnicity and Race Never Cross Our Minds When We Meet Another Believer?
Randy Alcorn asks and answers the “color blindness” question.
The Case for Children’s Worship Services
You don’t have to agree with everything an article says to benefit from it. And that was the case for me with this one (though I am generally in favor of offering some programming for at least the youngest children during services).
Flashback: Simon, Would You Still Have Passed That Way?
“I would still have passed that way even if I had known I would be mistreated, for by sharing his burden I became the first to share in his sufferings.”
There are two little rules which, if we would observe them, would work a marvelous change in most of our lives. One is, “Never be discouraged.” The other is, “Never be a discourager.”
—J.R. Miller
