Navigating Relationships With the Conspiracy Theorists in Your Life
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“Conspiracy theories, as unbelievable and problematic as they can be, provide adherents with both a sense of control and community.” - Kainos
Four Principles for Holding Together Love and Truth
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“The first biblical principle is to ‘choose love not hate, as [our] posture’…. Second, we must ‘choose the Bible, not culture, as [our] authority.’” - Breakpoint
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Is Our Perspective on Sin Warped?
There are a lot of sins in the Bible. We don’t feel the same way about all of them, though, do we? Some sins trigger strong righteous indignation or an intense “ick” response. Others we barely notice.
We’re not entirely wrong to feel that way. Though there are not really any small sins, some are bigger than others. (See Bob Gonzales’ excellent study on that topic: The Greater Sin: Are There Degrees of Sin?).
But this range of reactions to different sins should prompt us to ask some questions.
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Church and State–A Sketch in Five Acts (Principle 2)
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In the last article, we discussed the most basic principle to rightly understand the “church v. state” conundrum. That principle was this—there are two kingdoms, Babylon and Jerusalem. Babylon will lose. Now we’ll build on this foundation and introduce the next building block:
Principle no. 2: God’s kingdom is distinct from every nation state.
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How to Train Up a Child: Proverbs 22:6 and Three Subtle Parenting Shifts
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“The internal peace we experience now has been directly connected to the following three shifts in our parenting: • train up, not tell up • should go, not shouldn’t go • old, not young” - Desiring God
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Train Them Up in Jesus: The One-Verse Vision for Dads
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“Such whole-life training, as extended preparation for healthy adulthood, is our calling as Christian parents, training both the outer person and behaviors as well as pressing through to the heart” - Desiring God
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Lifeway: Three in 10 churchgoers volunteer for charities
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“…the oldest churchgoers (those over the age of 65) are the most likely to say they participated in any type of volunteer work in the previous year (40%).” - Lifeway
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Conspiracy Theories in The Church Today
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“Conspiracy theories require the involvement of huge numbers of well-informed and ordinarily altruistic guilds (e.g., law enforcement, medical professionals, the clergy, etc.) who secretly and completely betray their ideals en masse in order to support the conspiracy.” - Snoeberger
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8 Reasons Even Christians Are Lonely
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“Fellowship is…the gathering of God’s people for the task of provoking each other to good works (Heb 10:24). If we miss this point, however, we too often reduce fellowship to a self-centered focus. That’s lonely.” - Chuck Lawless
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