Four Tips for Making God-Pleasing Decisions Under Stress
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“Without a doubt, stress of all kinds affects our ability to make sound, wise decisions. It can distort our reality, hasten our decision, amplify our foolishness, or paralyze us.” - IFWE
New Book Exposes How Evolutionary ‘Science’ Devolves
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“This second extension to his 1996 classic, Darwin’s Black Box (where he first outed himself as an advocate of intelligent design), argues that unguided mutation and natural selection are indeed able to adapt organisms to their environments, but only within strict limits.” - TGC
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What exactly is Christian about the Christian’s work?
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“Simply put, work is what most people (including Christians) spend most of their time doing, and so most people at some point ask questions about the significance and purpose of their jobs and vocations.” - Acton
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Climate Alarmists Make Evangelical College Students the Bull’s Eye
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“For over a decade, evangelicals have been the most skeptical subset of the American population about claims of catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming (CAGW). Don’t count on their staying that way.” - Cornwall Alliance
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Why ‘Follow Your Passions’ Is Bad Advice for Graduates
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“Jon Bloom, author of Don’t Follow Your Heart: God’s Ways Are Not Our Ways, echoes this wisdom: ‘The truth is, no one lies to us more than our own hearts.’” - Christianity Today
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Is the Bible Anti-Intellectual?
Viewed in isolation, some passages of Scripture seem to convey that there is a special danger in the human intellect—danger that is greater than the hazards of, for example, “the heart.” Sadly, these passages are often viewed “in isolation” in churches strongly influenced by revivalism, romanticism (see also IEP), or both.
Used as slogans, passages like the following seem solidly anti-intellectual:
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“...our current medical establishment is decades behind in its ineffective and immoral use of aborted fetal tissue for research.”
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“The NIH has not funded any fetal tissue trials in over a decade, but approximately $100 million of taxpayer money currently goes toward basic science experiments using aborted fetal tissue. That money would be vastly better spent on ethical research with considerably better chances of success” - W. Examiner
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Were you reared by godly, born-again Christian parents? This refers to while growing up, not subsequently.
We know that God has no grand children.
I consider to be uniquely populated by solid, Biblically-leaning believers.
I am curious as to our backgrounds. Did we come mostly from Christian homes?
If your parents were converted after you or shortly before you, then please answer with the “no” that fits.
Looking forward to learning a lot.
Please participate in this poll.
Also please understand that “mom” and “dad” can be substitute figures if you were reared by relatives or guardians.
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Are We Outsourcing Our Brains to Google?
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“Cars, light bulbs, telephones, and compact discs exist outside of us. When we engage with social media, however, when we take information from blogs and make it our own, we are merging our hearts and minds with a machine. Blithely, we continue apace in this transformation, most often unaware of the change we are undergoing.” - Intellectual Takeout
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A Major New Study Asks: How Does Church Affect Marital Health?
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“The report is based on findings from the 2018 Global Family and Gender Survey (GFGS), a new international survey of over 9,000 men and women in heterosexual unions in 11 countries—including more than 2,000 respondents from the United States.” - Christianity Today
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