Christian Living

“People were saying our schools were Marxist, socialist, atheist—and that just wasn’t our experience as local church pastors.” - C.Today

“The Puritans believed that habits were a means of cultivating spiritual maturity in the believer by giving a believer a greater capacity for future obedience, by uniting a believer’s will to God’s, and by conforming a believer to the image of Christ.” - Ref21

“3. Believers who participate in Halloween should do so with caution. My primary concern is not with the night itself, but that we sometimes numb ourselves to evil…” - Chuck Lawless

“As American wives increasingly outearn their husbands, many couples experience what relationship coach Suzanne Venker calls ‘role-reversal stress.’ This stress can be deleterious for their emotional and sexual lives, three studies published in the American Sociological Review suggest” - IFS

” Mohler tweeted thanks to seminary trustees for ‘passing a unanimous resolution defining pastor as both function and office and limited to men by Scripture as confessed by Southern Baptists in the Baptist Faith & Message.’” - C.Leaders

“Having said that, undue shame is a horrible thing…..Another kind of undue shame is that kind that hangs onto sins that have been truly confessed, repented of, and forgiven by Christ.” - Credo

“I don’t see the service industry as drudgery but as a singular opportunity to serve countless people. If I scorn the job God has handed me, I’m thumbing my nose at him, telling him I’m too good for it.” - TGC

“as often happens with any culture war skirmish, judgment gets clouded and common sense gets abdicated. But in this case, there is really no excuse for believing this very bizarre rumor.” - Relevant

American Bible Society’s latest State of the Bible Survey: “69 percent of Bible users read from the printed Bible within the month preceding the query, and 48 percent used a Bible app on a phone, tablet or computer, ABS said, with the categories overlapping.” - BPNews

“The cuts also eliminated the reconciliation studies minor, the theatre minor and three degrees in leadership, including two graduate programs. Other programs, such as engineering, art therapy and medical science, are being expanded.” - BringMeTheNews