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January 15, 2018
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Should Christians Call out Sin in Others?

by April Fiet
…d to have a relationship with the person built around trust. In the absence of these things, the answer is almost always no. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201108/we-see-in-others-what-we-fear-in-ourselves  ↩…
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June 12, 2017
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Brain and Soul: Implications for Life

by Bruce Vermeer
…ientific dogma. The Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 22, Q&A 57. In http://www.heidelberg-catechism.com/en/lords-days/22.html (n.d.). ↩ Brown, Warren, & Strawn, Brad. The Physical Nature of Christian Life: Neuroscience, Psychology, & the Church. New York: Cambridge University Press (2012). ↩ Cooper, John. Body, Soul, & Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2000). ↩ Ortberg, John. Soul Keepin…
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January 31, 2018
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Carrying the Cross of Gender Dysphoria

by Mark Yarhouse
…at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 3, 1994. Retrieved from https://www.ewtn.com/library/issues/prbkmter.txt Pinckaers, Servais O.P., Morality: The Catholic View. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2001. Mark A. Yarhouse, Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015. Mark A. Yarhouse & Dara Houp, D., Transgender Christians: “Gender identity, family relat…
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October 12, 2016
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C.S. Lewis’s Nightmare: Christianity after the Abolition of Man (Part 2)

by Michael Plato
…ights of the 21st Century,” in Newsweek (Accessed October 4, 2016). http://www.newsweek.com/transhumanism-zoltan-istvan-civil-rights-21st-century-453884  ↩ See http://transhumanism.org/index.php/wta/hvcs/  ↩ C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, (HarperCollins: New York, 1944, 2000), 74. ↩ Alan J. Torrance, “Forward,” in Marc Cortez, Christological Anthropology in Historical Perspective: Ancient and Contemporary Approaches to Theological Anthropology…
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November 9, 2015
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Genetically Modified Organisms: Beyond the Limits of Care?

by Chris Goedhart
…effects of GMO technologies, supports the conclusion that industry, the research community and broader society did little to anticipate the impacts of these new biotechnologies. Using biotechnology and GMOs could be justified if the “net economic benefit from the radical innovation, in spite of the destruction of existing economic value, was greater than if the radical innovation had never been introduced.” Fortunately the Christian community has…
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September 27, 2018
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Growing Trust

by Heidi De Jonge
…revealing of the Holy Spirit. No one can know themselves or another person completely. Together, we must pray the prayer of Psalm 139:23-24: Search us, God, and know our hearts. Test us, and know our anxious thoughts. See if there are any offensive ways in us, and lead us in the way everlasting. Only God sees all the parts of us. God, in God’s way, lovingly shines light in the shadowy places in our hearts that need God’s knowing, and then leads us…
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February 14, 2023
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Is Pre-Vatican II Roman Catholicism a Closed Church? A Review of Chapters 2-3 of Neo-Calvinism

by Eduardo Echeverria
…ity to teach, he nonetheless argues that ultimately every believer has the complete freedom to interpret the Word of God for himself, by his own light, leaving him “free to confess otherwise” than what the Church teaches in accordance with its creeds and confessions and hence “to conceive the truth of God in some other sense.” Here, then, we have what Alister McGrath once called Protestant Christianity’s dangerous idea. But how can Bavinck’s posit…
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December 27, 2016
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To Read and Read Anything

by Amanda Vazquez
…this book in a way no news story or academic teaching could. When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi Kalanithi is a young man, approaching the end of his training to be a neurosurgeon when his life is changed by a diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer. Just as he’s about to move into his career, for which he has been preparing for years, he must tackle end of life questions and the desire to live out his life the best he can without knowing how long he…
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August 8, 2022
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Freedom in Finitude: Reframing How We Look at Limits

by Dawn Berkelaar
…in. They are not the way things are supposed to be. Though lament is not a common practice for many of us, the Bible is full of examples. Some of the Psalms express deep lament. Job, too, lamented when he felt like God had forsaken him. In these cases, the authors were not so much blaming God as expressing their deep anguish. God invites us into a deeply personal relationship. I believe He welcomes us to express deep emotions, even the dark and di…
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March 5, 2020
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Schooling for the Soul: A Review of Theology as a Way of Life

by Myles Werntz
…poses about the control education has over markets. What theology offers is far different: an education which is rooted in the wonder of God in all things, an induction into how to ask questions well in the company of others, and an invitation into a life of virtue. Now that curriculum is one worth building a university around….
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July 8, 2015
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Re-Creating in Nature

by Steve Holtrop
…or discern answers to my spiritual questions? Sometimes. But sometimes my questions grow branches. Do I feel less anxious? Sometimes. But sometimes I add worries about a blister, critter bites, or overheating (or frostbite). So, what is it? I’m going to try out the idea that doing recreational activities in a God-glorifying way in a fertile or awe-inspiring place is perhaps one of the ways we are most unified, cohesive, or put-together. This is b…
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January 13, 2022
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The Push of a Button: Replacing Meaningful Interactions

by Kevin Timmer
…were created to be. Properly ordered love is not simply about our lives becoming better; it is about being able to become whole.” 2 We are created to make choices that reflect God’s love to others, to bear His image after the example of His perfect image bearer, Jesus Christ (Col 1:15). Brown puts it this way: “The more we are like Christ, the more we fulfill our original design—the ‘perfect version of ourselves.’” 3 Therefore, in the pattern of…
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March 11, 2016
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Spotlights

Comfort

by Dennis Vander Plaats
…learn and grow together as we walked the Valley of the Shadow of Death and searched for the comfort that God promised. Visits from friends and family were a true source of comfort. Knowing that so many were praying for and supporting us helped us to sense God’s love through His people. Some visitors also tried to give words of comfort; but, from time to time, words intended to comfort troubled us instead. Gloria and I were raised in the Calvinist…
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January 26, 2017
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How Instagram Changed My Infertility Battle

by Brittany Link
…troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation! For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things.” 2 Corinthians 1:4, 6 God never intended us to go through life’s struggles alone. He desires for us to be in community with others and to love, support, and share. But sharing what is really going on in our lives can be difficult, especially when it is so much easier to share just the “…
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January 8, 2018
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Culture

The Big Problems with Being Small

by Josh Matthews
…n ordinary everyman who has to figure out what life is about. When he’s welcomed into the microcommunity, he’s greeted with the phrase “Welcome to the good life!” But Paul begins to realize that his new mansion and affluent lifestyle are neither “good” nor life itself. He’s friendless, uncharismatic, single, overweight, and bored. Downsizing, which seemed like a great life choice, exacerbates all of Paul’s problems. This theme of an ordinary schlu…
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June 28, 2018
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We Create Because God Created First

by Kim Brinkerhoff
…nk there are eight billion ways to make men and women, and He continues to come up with new combinations of personalities, body types, skin tones, and skill sets every day. To each new person He also instills creativity, this innate desire to imagine, dream, and experiment. We all have it, all eight billion of us, because we are made to imitate God. We create because God created first. Human beings were made to be creative. In fact, it could be ar…
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September 24, 2020
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That Proverbs 31 Woman: A Review of The Preacher’s Wife

by Chandra Crane
…ender-and-authority-the-legacy-of-sibling-rivalry/  ↩ https://religionnews.com/2019/04/06/comments-about-whiteness-prompt-walkout-at-sparrow-women-conference/  ↩ Yet she did not include mention of, nor did she interview, Jackie Hill Perry, a black woman with much evangelical influence who identifies as formerly gay. Another strange oversight. Disappointingly, Bowler also left out differently abled evangelical celebrity women such as Joni Eareckson…
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April 6, 2021
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Eat This Bread: Blessed, Broken, and Given  

by Dawn Berkelaar
…on the margins of society, are uninvited to our Feast Tables or unable to come—so we are called to enter their spaces, however uncomfortable that might be. Kamminga wrote, Our Eucharist celebrations are not as rich when the marginal voices are not included. In the Lord’s Supper, we celebrate the God who crossed the heaven-earth border to have communion with us. Following suit, we also are to cross borders by inviting the other into our homes and…
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March 23, 2018
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Remembrance, Communion, and Hope Review

by Stephen Shaffer
…counter where Christ gives himself to us and joins us to himself in deeper communion as we are joined in communion with his body, the church. As a feast of hope, the supper sets our hearts longing for the new creation, but also for the final heaven where Jesus Christ will be and we will behold him face-to-face. As Billings readily admits, Remembrance, Communion, and Hope provides no “quick fixes.” There is not one Sunday school class that can be t…
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November 10, 2017
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Spiritual Disciplines

by Caleb Schut
…tt touches on the necessity of a reality grounded in a larger reality. For example, humanity is becoming increasingly aware that every action is a moral choice. I remember one fifteen-minute stand-off in the grocery store as my wife and I debated which orange juice was the right moral choice. Every click is a vote for a product or a company. Every dollar spent is a “vote” for one business or another. In this world where every decision seems to car…
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July 28, 2016
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Sabbath: Slowing to Celebrate

by Dawn Berkelaar
…n a largely agrarian society and who wove Sabbath into the fabric of their communal life. What might Sabbath rest look like in practice for us, here and now? This is an area where Christians are often prone to legalism, following strict rules for the sake of those rules. Forbidding certain activities on Sunday is an attempt to enforce “rest” from the outside; Old Testament rules and regulations did the same thing. Generally speaking, the intention…
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September 28, 2017
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Not So Fast: Framing Capital Punishment in the Context of Historic Christian Moral Reasoning

by Brad Littlejohn
…written law code, it functioned in most earlier Christian ethics more like common law, a form of wise legal practice and reasoning, as human beings in every age sought to grasp and apply the principles and ends instilled in them by their Creator. Hooker, like Aquinas before him, is frank about the difficulty of distilling the natural law into a set of concrete dos and don’ts; reasoning deductively from first principles, we will only arrive at some…
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September 9, 2016
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Understanding Yourself as a Parent

by Tara Boer
…Focus on praising their character and the journey, not just the desired outcome (for example, getting an A on a test). Depression and anxiety can manifest themselves in children and teens who have learned to put their worth in their accomplishments and others’ approval of them rather than their God-given personality and character. Children need to know that their choices are important but their worth comes in being created and loved by a good, goo…
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March 15, 2018
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Devotions

Digging Deep

by Dawn Berkelaar
…us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow him. But sometimes the practice is undermined by frequent comments about what is being “given up,” turning the experience into a pity party. After all, in Matthew 6:16-18, we are told not to let it be known when we are fasting. Second, giving something up for Lent can be a way to break a mild addiction. This seems appropriate, since addictions indicate an unhealthy dependence on something that ca…
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November 3, 2020
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Fighting For Our Soul

by Caleb Schut
…your lifetime, and when you find yourself there, you will be grateful that communion shaped your community every week for years. I’m grateful for the ways that weekly communion shapes the congregation I’m serving. The sacramental reminder of who we are is the sword of the Spirit we desperately need during this pandemic. Communion reminds us that those receiving the body of Christ in front of us and behind us, no matter how differently they engage…
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