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Two HUGE LIES in Modern Culture and Why We Can’t Afford to Believe Them

April 24, 2013 — Leave a comment

Our culture and its dialogue are absolutely immersed in two enormous lies.

If you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must either hate them, fear them, or be intolerantly and irrationally prejudiced against them.
If you love someone, you must agree with or silently tolerate everything they believe and do.

These are lies that disciples of Christ simply cannot afford to believe. Why?

These lies fail to acknowledge the objective standard given by our Creator.
These lies elevate our definition of happiness above God’s prescription for holiness.
These lies distort the nature of God’s written revelation to mankind.

This sermon seeks to hold these increasingly common lies under the microscope of divine revelation.

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Around the Web (4/18)

April 18, 2013 — Leave a comment

CHEAP eBook Deal of the Day: 10 Building Blocks for a Solid Family (Jim Burns, Foreword by Dr. Gary Chapman) – $4.08 (73% off).
According to a recent U.N. study, more people on earth have access to cell phones than toilets.
Ferrell Jenkins posts a great picture of archaeological evidence for Roman crucifixion.
Gary Henry provides a powerful reminder: “Sometimes our courage fails us not because we lack boldness but because we lack the right kind of fear. We mistakenly think that the key to greater courage would be greater self-confidence, and so we fire up our ‘Can Do!’ attitude. After a while, our attitude gets dangerously close to pride. In our mad scramble for greater ‘strength,’ we forget the meaning of reverence. We no longer tremble before our Creator. We lose our fear of God. And at that point, lesser fears begin to dominate our lives.”
Pew Research documents the growing support for gay marriage and zeroes in on generational trends over the last decade.

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Around the Web (4/17)

April 17, 2013 — Leave a comment

FREE eBook Deal of the Day: An Expose on Teen Sex and Dating: What’s Really Going On and How to Talk About It (Andy Braner) – FREE (regularly $9.99).
Who knew wind was such a beautiful thing? Take a look, then read Psalm 135:5-7.
Roger Shouse has some encouraging words for parents — “God’s way works. It always does. Hang in there young parents. Don’t lose heart. The world is dark, indeed. But don’t forget that God is great.”
Kyle Pope takes us to the Hinnom Valley and reminds us of Jesus’ teaching on final punishment.
“One of the highest reasons for doing what is right is that we desire to be exactly what our Father wants us to be.” Gary Henry goes on to challenge us to learn to love our Father’s desires.

For those of us who find it easy to be our own biggest physical critics…

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Around the Web (3/11)

March 11, 2013 — Leave a comment

Around the Web

CHEAP eBook Deal of the Day: Pure Eyes: A Man’s Guide to Sexual Integrity, by Craig Gross – $1.99 (85% off).
Shawn Roberts unveils the setting that every parent who has an iPhone needs to know.
This week’s Daily Family Bible Study from Gary Henry emphasizes that repentance is something everybody needs to do.
Ken Weliever uses the Bible to provide some suggestions for anger management in the home.
The Atlantic features some incredible before-and-after interactive images of the Tohoku earthquake in Japan.

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Around the Web (1/16)

January 16, 2013 — Leave a comment

Around the Web

In light of the Louie Giglio hubbub, Andy Sochor asks, “Should preaching about homosexuality be a priority?” and provides a powerful answer.
Seth Godin reflects on clean bathrooms, as only Seth Godin can.
Speaking of bathrooms, Dene Ward draws an important spiritual lesson from an unheated bathhouse.
Steven Deaton reminds us that the long history of something doesn’t make it right.
John Saddington has produced another eBook for bloggers, this one on the importance of Blogging Content. If you’re wanting to get serious about blogging, Saddington is your man.

CHEAP eBook ALERT: How Successful People Think, by John Maxwell ($3.79, 62% off)

The Unresponsiveness of Deceitful Lovers

November 8, 2012 — 2 Comments

Lies

“How lonely sits the city that was full of people!” In 587 BC, Jerusalem was crushed by mighty Babylon. Throughout Lamentations 1, the city of David is personified as “weeping bitterly” in the night. “With tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies” (Lam 1:1-2).

Words can hardly encapsulate how much good had been sacrificed in order to acquire so little. “Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, her foes gloated over her; they mocked at her downfall” (Lam 1:7).

But so much more is involved here than the ancient history of a Jewish city. Pay particular attention to the first phrase of Lamentations 1:19— “I called to my lovers, but they deceived me.” Here is a principle that is timeless. Those things that tantalizingly beckon us away from wholehearted faithfulness to God? They are lying to us.

Pornography is lying to you.
Pre-marital sex is lying to you.
Adultery is lying to you.
Alcohol is lying to you.
Drugs are lying to you.
Greed is lying to you.
Laziness is lying to you.
Jealousy is lying to you.
Unrighteous anger is lying to you.
Selfishness is lying to you.
Idolatry is lying to you.

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Video of Debate on Homosexuality

August 15, 2012 — 4 Comments

On July 16, 2012 in Columbus Ohio, Patrick Donahue debated Margaret Hawk on this question: “Homosexual Marriage: Is it Compatible with the Scriptures?” Donahue denied and Hawk affirmed.

In Acts 17:11, Jews in the city of Berea were commended by Luke as being “more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.” In 1 John 4:1, John warns, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

This debate provided a good opportunity to examine the Scriptures and test the spirits.

Video of the 2-hour debate is available below:

Patrick Donahue’s charts used throughout the debate are also available for download.

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Signs of the Times: The Father Isn't the Preferred Man? Terminate the Pregnancy.

June 21, 2012 — Leave a comment

Before Birth, Dad’s ID, The New York Times (6/20/12)

It is an uncomfortable question that, in today’s world, is often asked by expectant mothers who had more than one male partner at the time they became pregnant. Who is the father?

With more than half of births to women under 30 now out of wedlock, it is a question that may arise more often.

Now blood tests are becoming available that can determine paternity as early as the eighth or ninth week of pregnancy, without an invasive procedure that could cause a miscarriage.

Besides relieving anxiety, the test results might allow women to terminate a pregnancy if the preferred man is not the father — or to continue it if he is.
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Around the Web (6/8)

June 8, 2012 — Leave a comment

The Big Picture has some incredible photos of this week’s transit of Venus. It boggles the mind to see how much larger our Sun is than Venus.
Charles Wesley is credited as the author of more than 6,000 hymns. Randy Maddox, professor of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School, has been working to build an online collection and he’s eager to share with the rest of the world.
Ethan Longhenry has recently written A Theology of Sexuality and Counterfeit Sexuality: Sexuality as Identity.
What We Miss: an important reminder in the digital age from Tim Challies.
Newly released from DeWard: Things Most Surely Believed by Forrest D. Moyer. Solid Biblical material on your e-reader for just $0.99!

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Around the Web (4/19)

April 19, 2012 — Leave a comment

Built by the Lord: A Study of the Family – an excellent resource for personal, family or class study by Edwin Crozier.
Psalm 119 like you’ve never seen it before.
Ever wondered why the Gospels mention Jesus and the apostles “reclining at table”?
6-year-old handcuffed after tantrum in school. What I found particularly interesting was this statement from Janice D’Arcy – “A more subtle argument for knee-jerk disciplinary procedures contend that one-strike rules are needed to train children who no longer receive much discipline at home.”
The downside of cohabiting before marriage – from The New York Times, no less. “I spent more time planning my wedding than I spent happily married,” she sobbed. Most disheartening to Jennifer was that she’d tried to do everything right. “My parents got married young so, of course, they got divorced. We lived together! How did this happen?”
Proverbs 22:3 – “The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.”