What are the Alternatives to the Biblical View of Freedom?
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“Many people in our culture believe freedom to be a lack of norms, rules, or laws restraining us from doing what we want to do or be.”
Is the Accumulation of Wealth Wrong?
Discussion item in my Sunday school class today around “Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal” (Matthew 6:19 HCSB)
Or what is this text about?
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Is the Accumulation of Wealth Wrong?
Yes Votes: 0
No Votes: 4
Other Votes: 2
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How Small Colleges Can Not Only Survive, But Thrive
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“The university now follows a discipline advocated by Peter Drucker many years ago; the first rule of strategy is to abandon activities that require the resources of personnel or money, indeed even time, if they are no longer productive enough.” How Small Colleges Can … Thrive
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Legalism & Galatians Part 3: Adoption
Portions of the epistle to the Galatians have been used in a manner that breeds confusion and misunderstanding regarding legalism, grace, sanctification, and Christian living. It’s a pity, because the epistle speaks powerfully and clearly on all of these topics. The book’s teaching on adoption is an especially potent message for our times, carving a clear, joyful—yet responsible—path between the opposite errors of justification by works (legalism) and sanctification without works (antinomianism).
But that’s not all. The reality of believers’ adoption as God’s children not only answers the extremes of legalism and antinomianism, but also counters other common errors. Here, we’ll consider two additional errors as well as the two opposite extremes.
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"We cannot expect our kids to always swim against a cultural flood tide."
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Homeschool vs. Public School: How a Christian Parent Should Decide on Education
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The Irreconcilable Pursuit of Christ & Coolness (Part 2)
From VOICE, July/Aug 2015. Used with permission. Read Part 1.
The Bible & Coolness
How should we live as Christians in a culture that is driven by style and worships the cult of youth, popularity, and appearances? A culture where the greatest fear seems to be becoming old-fashioned, out of date, passé?
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The Irreconcilable Pursuit of Christ & Coolness (Part 1)
From VOICE, July/Aug 2015. Used with permission.
My frequent travels take me to some unusual places, but one that always catches my attention is in central Indiana. There, alongside Interstate 65, is a billboard proclaiming the “Birthplace of Cool.”
James Dean was born in Fairmount, Indiana, in 1931. But it wasn’t until 1955, when his movie “Rebel Without a Cause” was released, that cool was truly born. When that film hit the theaters, youth culture exploded into middle-class white America and so did the concept of cool.
James Dean was edgy, rebellious, a misunderstood loner. He played by no one’s rules but his own. And following this most cool cultural icon came many others for my generation, especially in music. Elvis pushed trans-generational, wholesome pop singers like Perry Como and Pat Boone off the scene much to the delight of his fans. Then rockers joined Elvis and everything exploded as my generation came of age: sex, drugs and rock and roll ruled the 1960s.
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