Prepare for Gay Marriage: David Murray provides six way for Christians to prepare for the legalization of gay marriage. “God is sovereign and specializes in last minute rescues, but barring a Mordecai-type intervention we might as well face up to the reality that gay marriage is coming down the pike at an unstoppable speed, and it’s going to impact many Christians in damaging and even destructive ways. While continuing to pray, preach, and campaign against this…we must also ask how we can prepare for the collision in such a way that minimizes the carnage.”
Four Common Self-Refuting Statements Heard on College Campuses: “”As I train university aged Christians around the country and listen carefully to their common college experiences, I’ve started to collect some of the more popular self-refuting statements uttered by college professors. Here are the top four…”
Do You Know Your Neighbors’ Names? A short and convicting post about doing small things before making huge plans; about loving people in ordinary, common ways before extravagant and lavish outreach strategies. “We’re happy to put together projects and throw big events at our churches. We’re much more hesitant to befriend neighbors, share life with them, and be witnesses to grace in our ordinary, everyday interactions.”
Jellyfish Christianity: What JC Ryle said over 100 years ago still holds relevant for many today.”A jelly-fish is a pretty and graceful object when it floats in the sea, contracting and expanding like a little, delicate, transparent umbrella. Yet the same jelly-fish, when cast on the shore, is a mere helpless lump, without capacity for movement, self-defense, or self-preservation. Alas! It is a vivid type of much of the religion of this day, of which the leading principle is, “No dogma, no distinct tenets, no positive doctrine.”
How’s Your Bible Reading Going? “Maybe so far in 2013 your Bible reading hasn’t gone according to plan; it hasn’t increased or improved as you’d hoped. Let me suggest several possible reasons why Bible reading might feel weak and wearisome, and suggest some ways in which those weaknesses might be helped.”
Love Your Mormon Neighbors: Helpful counsel from a former Mormon, “With millions of Mormons worldwide and their aggressive plan for expansion, I pray that all genuine believers will recognize that God has called us to reach out to Mormons with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Will you join with me? Then let me provide you with some counsel.”
Assembly Required: Do you ever think about the utter essentiality of physically meeting together with the church? “It is a strange ritual. A group of men and women agree to meet together once a week. One of the key things they do is listen while one man preaches. Why do they do it? Why does he, the preacher, do it? And—the big question in our culture—why the need physically to meet in order to hear him preach?”
A Clear, Helpful and Exciting Discussion About the Trinity:
“To complain against the partiality of grace is suicidal. If the sinner insists upon bare justice, then the Lake of Fire must be his eternal portion. His only hope lies in bowing to the sentence which Divine justice has passed upon him, owning the absolute righteousness of it, casting himself on the mercy of God, and stretching forth empty hands to avail himself of the grace of God now made known to him in the Gospel.” Arthur W. Pink
