As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Joanne Lipman opened the debate with her op-ed titled, ‘Want Equality? Make New Dads Stay Home.’ She highlighted the case of Humanyze, which obliges all fathers to take 12 weeks paternity leave.” - Acton
“Rather than showing the ‘power of evolution,’ these Nobel winners show that intelligent design and directed effort was needed to accomplish anything beneficial to humanity.” - Ken Ham
Many people have deep convictions about the Sabbath Day. The Sabbath Day is the seventh day of the week. In Spanish, Saturday is rightly called “Sabado.”
Some think the Sabbath Day was changed to Sunday—quite a leap, in my view. Others think that the church should meet, and people should not work on Sabbath Day, so they form “Seventh Day” religions. Some Messianic Jews even believe that Christ actually arose on Saturday!
“Among the many challenges the church will face in the present and coming generations, few will equal the challenge of maintaining a steadfast commitment to biblical Christianity in the midst of an increasingly hostile environment.” - CPost
In this excerpt from his little book Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance,1 Os Guinness puts his finger on a key issue in the conservative Christian sub-culture. His comments are even more interesting when you consider the book was published in 2003:
Our discussions about Wayne Grudem’s views on New Testament (fallible) prophecy have led me to ask this question.
Some fine Christians take a pure wisdom approach to God’s leading and decision making (Decision Making and the Will of God).
Others take a very subjective approach.
I am in the middle, only occasionally “feeling” led.
Often our approaches may be colored by our personality. Perhaps people who are constantly “feeling led” tend to be more emotional than others who sense and occasional leading or have never “felt” led. Perhaps not.
“I’ve noticed today there are many approaches being offered by businesses for those seeking to find deeper fulfillment and satisfaction in whatever their ‘work’ might be. With so many options available, why is it that deep satisfaction is still so illusory?” - TIFWE
“There’s a back and forth—there is a role that we play in our relational life with God. That role is, as Paul puts it, that we are to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice. Now, how do you do that? I’d say primarily—not exclusively, but primarily—through the classical disciplines of the spiritual life.” - CToday
“The practice of meditation in its many forms (transcendental, mindful, body scan, awareness, zen, etc.) has suddenly metastasized into a lucrative industry, assimilated by Western corporate conglomerates. Even the Marines are taking a stab at the practice.” - Cripplegate
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