Scientists poke holes in natural selection
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“[N]ew research, published in the Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, shows survival is a lot more complicated, and natural selection is neither clear-cut nor provable.” BPNews
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Forgive and Forget? No!
If a Christian has been personally wronged by another Christian, should he just forgive and forget? I don’t believe he should. I think that would be a terrible mistake, and this attitude (while well-meaning) is very dangerous for local churches. It papers over disputes, and presents a false front of unity where, in fact, bitterness and sin often abound below the surface. Here is my position, briefly:
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Embodying Masculinity in a World that Rejects It
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“I dutifully worked through the New Testament epistles, looking for any instructions to men. That’s where it got interesting. There aren’t as many passages as you think.” Rooted Thinking
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How Participation Trophies are Infiltrating Report Cards
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“Montgomery County public schools… instituted a policy several years ago which abolished the traditional grades of A, B, C and so forth, and replaced them with the grade of ‘P.’”
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Calvinistic churches near BJU
My daughter is planning to attend BJU next fall and I was wondering what churches near campus might be in line with the doctrine of her home church. I realize that there probably isn’t a church that meets EVERY criteria, and they are not listed in order of importance, but we live 700 miles away so I’m looking for some recommendations of churches that might meet most of these.
World Mission focus, Gospel-centered, Fully Calvinistic, staunchly Baptist, traditional worship, New Covenant, Closed Communion, Amillenial or at least historic premillennial, family-integrated.
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9 Reasons to Reject Racism: Reasons 1-5
Does American society have a racism problem? Does the church? Lately, everybody seems to claim or assume the answer to both of these questions is “yes,” but maybe those who preach, teach, and lead in churches and ministries have the same job to do either way—to ensure that the wealth of biblical teaching relevant to racism reaches the believers in their care.
To clarify a couple of key terms, I’m using “race” here in the old sense: basically a group of ethnicities from the same general geography who have some shared physical characteristics. Given the large amount of concept-overlap, I’ll treat race and ethnicity as being roughly equivalent. “Racism” here refers to devaluing and mistreating people (inwardly or outwardly) because we think they’re of a different race than ourselves.
Scripture gives us several reasons to reject these attitudes and behaviors. We’ll consider nine, with the first five in this installment.
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