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BEFORE & AFTER: SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES
Begin With The End In Mind The end-state of God’s Sanctifying Grace is our being fully conformed to the image of Christ. On that journey, it is vital that we practice Spiritual Disciplines, cooperating with the Holy Spirit as he renews our minds, and moves us along...
Kintsugi
“How do you know when the gold is purified?" we asked him, and he answered, "When I can see my face in the liquid gold, then it is pure."[1] God's Transformative Refining The Japanese art form of kintsugi (“golden joinery”) or kintsukuroi, (“golden repair”) takes...
Jefferson And Trump On Freedom
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? [Thomas Jefferson, paraphrased]
The Treasure He is Mining….
Conservative Christians run the risk of passing into idolatry when they hold that their particular ideology or permutation of politics is consistent with the Mind of God. And I do not say this lightly, for only God knows how invested and indebted I am to the...
An Oath For The Office of Citizen
….. For a man’s heart determines his speech. A good man’s speech reveals the rich treasures within him. An evil-hearted man is filled with venom, and his speech reveals it. And I tell you this, that you must give account on Judgment Day for every idle word you speak....
Hold On Their Baba Looey, or A Test Of Presidential Character, And Of Our Own
Say It Isn't So. Trump is a misogynist and should leave the race. Clinton is a two-faced globalist. We are reminded of Dr. Henry Cloud's analysis of individuals as either wise, foolish, or evil. See here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ruoPQuePhV8. For reference, here...
Christians In America Under Attack In “Insidious War”
You can never solve a problem you cannot define. Herewith a definition. In an address to the 12th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast held Tuesday in Washington, Cardinal Robert Sarah (sar–AH) decried what he called an “insidious war”...
Regaining Christian Witness
The following post is an edited version of an article written by Bruce Ashford, Provost and Dean of Faculty, as well as Professor of Theology and Culture, at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Mr. Ashford is also the co-author of the recently released...
Moral Relativism As A Worldview
An exploration of what happens when the secularization of western culture tries to eliminate Christianity. A Christian Worldview has God and the Nicene Creed. An Atheist Worldview has man crawling up out of the primordial soup and insistence on the removal of moral...
Tolerance and Liberty: A Call To Action
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing[1]. To wit[2]: When they came for the communists, I did not speak out; As I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I did not speak out; I was not a...
WORLDVIEW: A PRIMER
But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15 Here is the thing. Jesus lived and died. He said what He said. “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in...
Happy Birthday Billy Graham
November 7th marks the Reverend Billy Graham’s 95th birthday. But the day is about much more than Rev. Graham’s birthday, it is also about God’s gift to us – to the world – in the man who is Billy Graham. No one in his lifetime has better exemplified what it means to...
Values Matter. Appearances Not So Much.
It’s about values and beliefs, not appearances or the external optics of race, culture or color. This concept was brought sharply into focus this week while pondering recent views expressed by Judge Judy and Doctor Ben Carson. On the outside these two nationally...
Freedom On The Wane. Or Why This Stuff Matters
Man is inherently free. There are few more elemental truths. We were not conceived and born indentured or the property of anyone or any power. We are simply and wonderfully free. That is our natural state. This is true whether you believe that freedom to be a gift...
Speaking Truth To Power
….. who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14 The politically curious might wonder whether Dr. Benjamin Carson’s speech at the Annual Prayer Breakfast on February 7th in Washington (watch here:...
What Now Shall We Do?
The USA, and society generally, are broken and seem on the precipice of disintegration. In the likeness and shadow of the question “How now shall we live”, whatnow2do looks to bring clarity to how we got here (you can never solve a problem you cannot define), and to...
WhatNow2Do
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