Stephen Curtis Chapman wrote an amazing editorial at CNN.com. He claims that
If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans.

It seems to me that adoption, like having biological children, should be non-negotiable to eligible, capable, orthodox […]

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MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I […]

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I had lunch with a friend recently and he expressed a feeling of spiritual suffering and confusion that I related to. I told him that my prayers lately have largely just been, “Save me, Lord. Save me. I’ve got a Problem I can’t comprehend, fix, fight against, or even stand under. All I know, Lord, […]

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Recently I was talking with a friend of mine about the unmarried people I see all around me. I’m noticing more and more people who seem unhappily (important) stuck in the stage of singleness that some think demands an explanation: attractive, socially active, emotionally stable, gainfully employed, and over 30 (or 22, depending on the […]

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I would be less than nothing but for the unmerited favour of God.

Dr. Richard Hipp spoke these inspired words. He is much more famous for creating SQLite and giving it away for free to everybody. Read more about him here.

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From Bruce Waltke’s Old Testament Theology, via challies.com:

God, who is over all, represents himself by masculine names and titles, not feminine ones. He identifies himself as Father, Son, and Spirit, not Parent, Child, and Spirit, nor Mother, Daughter, and Spirit. Jesus taught his church to address God as “Father” (Luke 11:2) and to baptize disciples […]

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Tim Challies, a popular Christian blogger, wrote an article today about the dangers of anonymity called Behind Closed Doors. I think Tim neglected some important points.
First, while being under social compulsion to adhere to certain rules may have benefits both to the individual and the society, it is not a moral good, per se, […]

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Let Them Know or Let It Go?
I don’t usually just like an article, but this one deserves some attention. I find intra-Church confrontation extremely difficult to wrap my mind around. This article helps.

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It is important to understand that “the right to believe anything” does not mean “anything anyone believes is right.” Though we need to respect a person’s right to believe anything, there are times that we have a right and a duty to disagree with them.

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From Puck of Pook’s Hill:
“…the People are tenfold more cruel than Kings….Better one King than a thousand butchers.

These ideas remind me of Søren Kierkegaard as portrayed in A Third Testament.
The author of this book, Malcolm Muggeridge, says on page 80,
The divine right of kings had been abolished, but the divine right of the […]

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