If we care about people, we should want to encourage them toward truth and wisdom. Even when no one changes their mind, attempts at persuasion help us understand one another better. Think of it like this: God has given you unique insights and experiences, and if you don’t share them, you may be depriving others around you of what God wants to teach them through you.
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“Simon Peter said to them, ‘I am going fishing.’ They said to him, ‘We will go with you.’ They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.”
—John 21:3 (ESV)
There’s a tendency in all of us, when things feel uncertain, to retreat to w…
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Amy, thanks for this. I've looked up Bruce Kenrick and am trying to find something other than that book, which is out of print. Shelter is a pretty well-known charity in the UK (and I see he has a blue plaque on a place where he lived, which is what gets done to your home if you become famous). Let me see how much of what he wrote or sai…
Bible Gateway passage: Romans 13:6-7 - English Standard Version
For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
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“As we abandon our belief in the religious substructure that holds up the scaffolding of our minds, things like goodness, truth, and beauty become irrelevant…We adopt the postmodern idea that your truth is your truth, mine is my own, and that these contradictions can coexist…”
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I find the overwhelming negativity toward Nico Iamaleava interesting. Not wrong, but just a complete 180 from what we’re used to seeing in these matters. What do you think?
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In this eye-opening conversation, Dr. Mark Chironna explores how the modern Church has unconsciously adopted the values of Enlightenment rationalism and consumer capitalism. Drawing on George Ritzer’s “McDonaldization,” he exposes how churches have tra…
Upgrading my pocket notebook game for better note-taking on the go and fewer phone pick-ups during family time. Fox Red from Leuchtturm1917.
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I like the curiosity in this - and would like to nudge you further.
I spent a bit of time investigating a hymn writer from 3 centuries back and discovered that it was much the same in his day - only you went to jail for being in the wrong neighbourhood. However, Isaac Watts' hymns are probably sung in every cul-de-sac and main road.
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Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the…
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It was great to talk to Dr. Andy Miller III about my Wesleyan theological resurgence article at Christianity Today that came out in September. Watch below.
