Discernment in 2021: Biblical Principles for Selecting Sources
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Where should discerning Christians get their information? Whom should we “trust”?
“Spurgeon understood that depression isn’t always logical and its cause is not always clear.”
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Spurgeon: “As well fight with the mist as with this shapeless, undefinable, yet, all-beclouding hopelessness.
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An overview of the light travel time problem, how creationists have addressed it, and the dasha solution
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“…there is abundant evidence that astronomical distances are at least qualitatively correct, with many galaxies being millions of light-years away….Therefore, doubting astronomical distances is not a productive way to address the light travel time problem.” - AiG
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The Power of Thanking God for What He Hasn’t Done
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“One of the most worshipful things we can do is to praise God for blessings He has promised that we have not yet received.” - C.Leaders
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On Certsitude, Part 1: “You’re Both Right!”
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“Even my commenting friends who are asserting diametrically opposed positions have something true and useful to say. It’s counterintuitive. They’re saying opposite things, and yet they’re both right, in at least some sense.” - Olinger
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What the Heavens Declared to a Young Astronomer
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“How I learned that the same God who numbered the stars knew and loved me personally.” - C.Today
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Why Is it So Hard to Reach the Christian Conspiracy Theorist?
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“I’m going to share with you the question I get more than virtually any other. It comes from sons and daughters, husbands and wives, uncles and aunts….’A person I love is deeply committed to conspiracies. What can I do?’” - David French
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The Heartbreaking Contradiction About Our Longing for Significance
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“It is both fascinating and heartbreaking that most people long for significance and at the same time believe they’re nothing more than the product of arbitrary biological mutations” - IFWE
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‘You Could Go to Seminary!’
“You could go to seminary!”
I will never forget those words from my wife Lynnette—and she won’t either.
They were uttered as we were eating lunch one day in the spring of 1994, watching The Coral Ridge Hour from Dr. D. James Kennedy and Coral Ridge Ministries. The segment at the end of that particular episode highlighted the new Knox Theological Seminary, which Dr. Kennedy had begun and was promoting to his national television audience.
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Thy Word Is Not a MagLite
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“David’s lamp was sufficient to see a couple of steps ahead, but not much farther than that. It did not illuminate the whole way his feet would have to tread, but only the next few footfalls.” - Challies
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