Should Christians Not be Known for What They are Against?
Reposted from The Cripplegate.
You’ve heard it said. “I don’t want to be known for what I am against, but what I am for.” “Christians should be known for what they are for, not against.”
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Reposted from The Cripplegate.
You’ve heard it said. “I don’t want to be known for what I am against, but what I am for.” “Christians should be known for what they are for, not against.”
“After years of a Christian form of behaviorism, we were ready to fight back. Or, rather, as Paul explains in his letter to the Galatian Christians, sin increases under law.” - A Day in His Court
“The bill approved by the House on Tuesday … would require a public school to offer the academic study of the Bible if at least 15 students request one. The course would be taught in what the legislation calls a ‘nondevotional manner with no attempt made to indoctrinate students.’” - Fox News
“Modernity has brought many blessings, but…. In a culture that so fervently strives after performance and hustle at the cost of all else, could it be that we may simply need more silence and more slowness?” - Acton
“I’m not that old, but it seems like a lifetime ago that it was acceptable to keep things until they were broken. Now if my phone is more than a year old or if I haven’t remodeled my kitchen in the past decade, I’m out of date. Is there a moral right or wrong to this consuming of new and updated models of stuff?” - TGC
Having spent many years studying biblical languages and teaching and tutoring students who have struggled with learning those languages, I have often thought that so many more Christians could learn Biblical Greek and Hebrew well and profitably use them in their lives if they were taught them at a slower pace that allowed for much more mastery at each stage of their learning.
“Christians are far more likely to say their mothers had a bigger influence on their faith than did their fathers, according to a new Barna study that examines the roles that moms and dads play in the development of children.” - Christian Headlines
“Marriage laws stem from the fact that children are the natural product of sexual relationships between men and women, and that both fathers and mothers are viewed to be necessary and important for children.
“The challenge of the internet, as it democratizes information, is that it requires each of us to become experts as we sift through it, separating the wheat from the chaff.” - Crossway
Agnostic Marcelo Gleiser “famously blasted scientists who do not consider religious beliefs when they explain the universe’s origins. He terms such attitudes as ‘arrogant.’” - WRN
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