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October 30, 2014
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Luther’s Persistent Mentor

by Scott Culpepper
…ed to ease Luther’s spiritual crisis, only intensified it as his eyes were opened for the first time to many of the ugly realities of sixteenth century Catholicism. Staupitz, serving as the first dean of the new University of Wittenberg in Saxony, summoned his young protégé to study and teach there in 1508. The opportunity opened the door to Luther’s engagement with scripture. Luther’s engagement with scripture and theology guided him to understan…
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August 15, 2018
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Mere Is Always a Dangerous Word: A Review of “Mere Sexuality” Part Two

by Steven Rodriguez
…kind of Alamo or Helm’s Deep. And as evangelicals have clung to the “gender-complementary-as-defined-by-biology” belief, they have unwittingly painted themselves into a corner. Biology, it turns out, is an unreliable ally in the cause of mere sexuality. Throughout the book, Wilson is dangerously inconsistent in his use of biology as a source of authority, using it when it is convenient, and rejecting it when necessary. So, Jesus’ sex, defined biol…
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September 1, 2020
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How Can the Church Today Uplift the Family Without Worshipping It?

by Aaron Baart
…a one-storey worldview, so this latest one might not make much sense taken in isolation (https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/glory2godforallthings/2020/09/01/forged-in-the-fires-of-a-dying-sun/), but I’ve come to appreciate what he says, which seems to have parallels that cohere with a Reformed worldview….
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September 28, 2015
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Discipleship and Metaphor

by Donald Roth
…ome.”3 For believers motivated by this metaphor, there is a suspicion of becoming too complacent with the world, and comfort is found primarily in fellowship with believers now and a hope of better things to come. Why Does this Matter? So what is the value or importance of talking about operative metaphor? While I don’t believe that these are the only two operative metaphors out there, these two ways of imagining ourselves as disciples of Christ r…
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August 27, 2020
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From the American Dream to Shalom: A Review of The Myth of the American Dream

by Erin Olson
…a certain political platform or perspective, but her stories should be eye-opening to many Christians as they hear the stories of the reality experienced by many people. From the American Dream to Shalom Although Mayfield herself lives in community and neighborliness with people of different socioeconomic status and ethnicity than herself, she doesn’t claim that proximity solves all problems. Instead she says, living side by side with one another…
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June 23, 2020
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Healthy Immunity Against Viral Posts

by Jeff Ploegstra
…ith reality. Most people refer to this as confirmation bias. It is also all-too-human to want to position ourselves as “in-the-know” and others as “sheeple.” Expertise: Do I have the expertise to evaluate the claims and arguments being made? Recently, many videos and posts popped up regarding COVID-19. I am quite confident, based on how much support they garnered, that many people don’t understand statistical concepts like representative sampling,…
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April 4, 2017
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iAt Book Club: The Benedict Option

by Scott Culpepper
…communities because Dutch immigrants were living the kind of life Dreher recommends as early as the mid-nineteenth century. Attempts to create communal utopias have been prolific in American history, from early Shaker enclaves to Brook Farm to more recent communal experiments among the “Jesus People” of the early seventies. What is different now is that people who were once in the cultural majority are learning how to deal with the same outsider s…
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October 12, 2015
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Why Christians Don’t Read the Bible

by Aaron Baart
…es me in a deep way. Sam H Good points Kelly, this is why when assembling a reading plan I break the chapters in to topical areas for example currently I am helping others read all of Ephesians, so first they would read 1:1-1:2 the next night would then be 1:3-1:14 followed the next night by 1:15-1:22. Each night a topical section is covered so it is large enough to be useful, but not so large as to cause a reader burnout on a given night….
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March 14, 2015
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Is the Letter to Iran Treason?

by Jeff Taylor
…ow certain figures on the right ignore the plight of Palestinian Christians–not to mention the destructive impact of Bush and Cheney’s war in Iraq on Christians throughout the Middle East. Publius Don’t worry, the US no longer needs Israel, and their relationship has never been lockstep. It is changing again in dramatic ways. Grandstanding politicians mean nothing to US-Israeli relations. To understand foreign policy, ignore politics and read mil…
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October 11, 2017
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The Desire for Diversity

by Carlye Gomes
…He’s well acquainted with differences, with adjustment, and with going-with-the-flow. He’ll tell you that, for the most part, settling into life here hasn’t been a big deal. Oftentimes, he feels like he’s where he belongs, and that the differences he feels between American culture and his own aren’t barriers to relationships. Except in the church. That afternoon, as Ariel and I talked and tried to figure out what was bothering him, he looked me in…
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March 17, 2017
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The Millennials and the Reformation

by Aaron Baart
…estions that millennials aren’t asking? If we listened, I mean really listened, to the questions that they’re actually asking, we might just realize that we’re ripe for being re-formed once again….
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January 29, 2016
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Engaging in Politics: Christian Leadership in Every Capacity

by
…cts every aspect of life. The more Christians that engage politics with an open-minded and biblically focused perspective, the more we can advance the Kingdom through government. If you agree that Christians should be leaders in politics, consider some of the following ways to get more involved. Joining an organization at the county level is a great place to start. Every county has an established organization that promotes the values of its respec…
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April 11, 2016
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Voluntourism

by Aaron Baart
…theologically. Check out the SOEs at www.soe.org The CRCNA and RCA mission offices are working to increase peer learning among congregations when it comes to excellence in short term missions. Watch for regional round table discussions in 2017. And, about #4 – I think serving has a place – even in menial tasks or acts of kindness – as long as it fits into the long term relationships and objectives. If that’s what the Host Ministry wants then do i…
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September 26, 2017
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Colin Kaepernick and the Professional Cost of Protest

by Jemar Tisby
…that if we’re going to get past our racial differences, it’s not going to come from we adults. It’s going to come from our kids.” She also believes that it is not really about race or black or white, but it is really about good and evil. “That is why we find people lying in the street dead. …evil doesn’t care if you are white or black.” You are right, Jemar, that Jesus said you will be “persecuted for righteousness sake” and he also told his di…
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November 10, 2021
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The Weight of Words (Part 2)

by Rachel Hibma
…e time for these last two game-changing tools: simile and metaphor. As I re-read the above poem, I realized I used these devices right and left!   Examples:  Simile – “Falling leaves can strike like tiny meteors”  Metaphor – “golden filigree overlays the surrounding rooftops,” “ground blizzard of swirling color,” “dead leaves, still teeming with movement,” “rainstorm of gold”   My poetry mentor, David Schelhaas, would maybe say that metaphor is th…
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October 9, 2018
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The Limbic System and Christian Sanctification

by Tony Jelsma
…a way that honors God or not. A quick scan of the second table of the Ten Commandments gives examples. We commit adultery because we do not properly control our sexual desires. We commit murder (or hate our brother, Matthew 5:22) because we cannot control our thoughts and actions towards others. We give false testimony, out of either fear or anger, rather than accept the consequences of speaking truthfully. The tenth commandment, you shall not co…
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November 30, 2015
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Taking the Gift out of Christmas

by Neal DeRoo
…t exchange of goods and services covered by a thin veneer of schmaltzy feel-good-ism — perhaps we ought to desire that it be separated from Christ. If we let Christ be associated with that understanding of gifts, our Christianity will soon devolve into the same kind of exchange of goods and services (grace and obedience?) beneath a veneer of feel-good-ism. Perhaps it already has. See, for example, his discussions of the gift in Given Time and The…
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May 16, 2017
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Devotions

Will You Hear Me?

by Chelsea Axford Reynhout
Daily Scripture Texts Psalm 102:1-17 Proverbs 3:5-12 Acts 7:44-56 A few months ago, I ran into my friend, Jason, at a local coffee shop. Freshly caffeinated and nearly falling backwards from the weight of my backpack, I stopped to say a quick “hello” on my way out. It may have been the giant mug of high-octane coffee I had just consumed, or maybe it was the agitation of wearing a backpack akin to piggy-backing a full-grown adult. Whatever the rea…
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April 4, 2016
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God Loveth Adverbs: Teaching (and Living) “Christianly”

by Dave Mulder
…m continually learning to bend my will more to the will of Christ, and this–I hope!--comes out in my teaching practice as well. I am grateful that I have the opportunity to continue to wrestle with these challenging questions along with you all! Marion D.+Van+Soelen Thanks for “stirring” the pot Dave! I like all the comments submitted by you and others and would add another. We continue to need Christian teachers in our government schools, howeve…
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April 15, 2017
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Devotions

Silence

by Kate Henreckson
Daily Scripture Texts Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16 Job 14:1-14 Matthew 27:57-66 1 Peter 4:18 Today there is a great silence over the earth, a great silence, and stillness, a great silence because the King sleeps. -from an ancient homily for Holy Saturday Today is Holy Saturday – the final day of Lent. The church calendar, with its celebrations and solemnities, is a powerful way to mold our lives yearly around the life of Christ. In December, we anticipate…
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April 6, 2015
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The Common Core: Good or Bad?

by Ed Starkenburg
…as their reason for defection. On the other hand, I have yet to find anyone–whether in our organization or outside it–who is able to pin down specific, substantive issues with common core beyond the fact that it 1) represents a break with the way some subjects used to be taught and 2) its pedagogical approach is–if not untested–at least less tested than the current approaches–which are two ways of saying the same thing. My own (limited) resea…
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December 28, 2016
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The Top Ten Movies of 2016

by Josh Larsen
…the closest the Coens have come to reckoning with the reality of the Gospel. A climactic encounter between Clooney’s star and the actor playing Christ, meanwhile, is quintessential Coen: a laugh-out-loud moment that manages irony and epiphany at once. This article was published previously on Think Christian. Republished with permission by the contributor….
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March 30, 2016
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Divorce

by Erin Olson
…ce for reasons other than adultery is adultery) as definitive for all time — and I personally do not think we can — we also cannot ignore the challenge it poses. I understand our situation today is complicated historically by a past in which marriage and divorce laws significantly disenfranchised women. For instance, marital rape was “not a thing” and therefore legal in all fifty states, a position explicitly upheld by the supreme court in the 1…
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September 29, 2015
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Devotions

Judgments

by James Calvin Schaap
…lly favored? Do we assume that to be specially favored, others must not be — or worse, that they must be specially disfavored? Do we assume that “we” means people who look, think, and act like us, who pose no threat or challenge to us? It used to be that families and nations of European people were held together — and in permanent ethno-religious strife — by this presumptive antipathy for their neighbors, their minorities, and their resident al…
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October 13, 2018
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Hiraeth

by Kate Henreckson
…han a place, a house, a time. It is an incompleteness brought about by your--and all of our–fallenness. And so our joys are never quite complete. As the old hymn puts it, “From fullest bliss that earth imparts we turn unfilled. . . .” Perhaps that’s what the text from Revelation tells us. Gerry This is precisely the danger — Lewis’s romanticism and nordicism was of a piece of his era, the era of romantic nationalism. We know how it played out, a…
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