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(Yesterday on the blog: How We Ordain a Pastor)
What’s the Main Concern for Christian Parents When It Comes to Gender?
“In teaching classes and seminars, I have noticed that what the older generation rejects, and what the middle generation isn’t sure of, the youngest generation likely adopts. But adopting culture’s understanding of sex and gender requires jettisoning God’s revealed design.” Parents, be prepared.
What’s So Great About Total Depravity?
“The doctrine of total depravity is not just something we learn so as to score high marks on some theology exam. Instead, total depravity is a doctrine to live by.” This is key–not even total depravity is mere abstract doctrine.
A Writer’s Prayer
Do you pray as you write? “Like all things in life, we can do nothing apart from Christ (John 15:5). Writers must abide in him and rest in his grace, wisdom, and strength. One of the ways we do that is in prayer. Like all the things we submit to our Father, we must submit our writing to him as well, asking him to use it for his glory and praise.”
How Microsoft Saved Apple (Video)
Did Microsoft really save Apple, as you sometimes hear? If so, why? “Today Apple is the most profitable company in the world and it very recently became the first trillion-dollar publicly-traded company in America. And yet just two decades ago Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy; surprisingly, it wasn’t Steve Jobs that saved them, but their biggest rival at the time: Microsoft.”
Creating Disneyland Was Like Building a Brand New City
“If visitors picked up maps to help them navigate the new park, they could see at a glance the payoff of years of planning: the shops and restaurants lining Main Street, the plazas, the wide avenues. Once a few opening day kinks were worked out, the park became the destination it is today. The magic city had finally sprung off the drawing board and into real life.”
Don’t Assume That Your Assumptions are True
“Assumptions lead to darkness and the devil always thrives in darkness rather than the light. It would be really good to stop assuming and start asking people to verify that what you assume to be true is actually…true.”
A History of Healthcare
You may enjoy this brief history of healthcare as you see why and how Christians have done it so differently.
Flashback: Are You Going to Hurt Me?
Strength that was given to protect has been used to destroy, what was meant to bless has been used to harm. It has left this trail of fear, this trail of hurt, this trail of devastation.
Act Now. Pay Later
This week the blog is sponsored by Moody Publishers and is written by Robert Wolgemuth the author of Lies Men Believe. I am very thankful for each and every one of the blog sponsors. This site would not be possible without them.
We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.
—Jerry Bridges
