“Different couples have different skills and interests. But aiming for a 50/50 split in household labor, childcare, and paid work seems to me to be a misguided goal. There is no formula that results in a ‘fair’ or ‘equal’ marriage” - IFS

“pastors and Christians differ in their opinions about the term [unity] as well. For pastors, words like ‘harmony’ (70%), ‘reconciliation’ (52%) and ‘sacrifice’ (41%) come to mind, while Christians tend to say ‘alliance’ (39%) or ‘sameness’ (31%).” - Barna

“Rather than falsely maligning that first Thanksgiving, we should look at it as a model of how things should have been and by God’s grace one day will be.” - Breakpoint

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In our quest to make Thanksgiving real, we left off by thinking about ways to ground our Thanksgiving in Scripture, following the example of the very Pilgrims who left this treasure as a heritage to our entire nation. The next challenge I would offer is to ground our Thanksgiving in history—primarily the history of these same Pilgrims.

Our American Thanksgiving dates back to the fall of 1621. Indeed, it represents a Christian ideal—a very Biblical ideal. Yet, it is also a remembrance of God’s providential working at the dawn of our country.

“…we’re incomplete, undeveloped, short of our potential. We have things to learn. We can always get better at something…. One reason that God doesn’t change is that he doesn’t need any of what we’ve just described. He doesn’t need to grow; he doesn’t need to mature; he doesn’t need to get better at anything.” - Olinger

“There’s a lot more out there on this but the main question is: Where are these folks going to go? To Mike Pence? Tom DeSantis? Someone else?” - GetReligion

“First, in Revelation 10:6, “time” (KJV) should be translated “delay.” …Second, in the context of the eternal state, Revelation 22:2 says that the tree of life which bears 12 fruits, will yield its fruit every month….” - Matt Postiff

How Do You See Others? - P&D

“Majorities of both mainline (66%) and non-mainline Protestant pastors (53%) expressed concern that ‘Christians are more loyal to their political views than their faith.’” - CPost

“As we reconstitute and rebuild this team, I know that if my vision for the ERLC is not aligned with what our churches actually need right now, it won’t work. … know that each of these steps are undertaken so our entity is fashioned in such a way as to address the feedback we are receiving from our churches.” - BPNews

What am I doing here? Who am I to be giving the Gospel to others? Why would God use me? Why should people listen to me?

I imagine that most Christians have asked questions like these when seeking to obey Christ and witness. When these thoughts come, what we do with them becomes extremely important. If we allow ourselves to dwell on our weakness, we will witness less and ineffectively, if we witness much at all.

Hindrances to Expectancy

When it comes to making disciples for Jesus Christ, no matter who we are or what our circumstances, all of us struggle at times with man-centered thoughts that handicap us. We make ourselves too important.

“It might be presumptuous to imply the path from orthodoxy to heterodoxy is the same for all institutions. Yet there does seem to be a recurring pattern that includes three steps.” - TGC

“A 2020 Lifeway Research study found 67% of U.S. adults say they typically give thanks to God at Thanksgiving.” - Lifeway

“This week marks the anniversary of both the birth (Nov. 29) and the death (Nov. 22) of C.S. Lewis, one of the most remarkable Christians of the last century.” - Breakpoint

“In March, we published on harassment reports at CT. Here are the steps we’ve taken since then.” - C.Today

“Seeing love as only desire is the error our culture falls into….But seeing Christian love, ‘agape love,’ as gift only is the more common error in the Christian church. And this error causes others.” - Mark Ward interviews Jonathan Leeman

“Think about words…We tend to recall the painful ones more than the affirming ones—so we must work harder to encourage others with regularity.” - Chuck Lawless

“The show has been the subject of some controversy, as some viewers interpret certain content in the show to be unnecessary or extrabiblical.” - C.Leaders

“There are times when I might need to confront a brother in Christ, but Is this communication something I want the entire world to see? …Am I including people in this conversation that really have no business being there?” - Kevin

“Section 6(b) of RMA recognizes that religious nonprofits and their personnel have a statutory right to decline any involvement with a marriage solemnization or celebration—including a same-sex one. ” - CToday

Counterpoint: No respect for religious freedom in the “Respect for Marriage Act” - World

In one manner or another, at least 4 passages in the NT instruct us about ungodly communication:

Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

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Looking Deeper into the Problems with Covenant Theology

9. Though they would consciously deny the charge, it is undeniable that CT ‘s way of reading the Bible (as above) creates a major problem philosophically in that it strongly implies that God equivocates. More seriously still, the manner of equivocation means that equivocation belongs to the essential nature of the Godhead.

“if Christians are going to heed the summons of Romans 12:2 in a smartphone age…we will need to do more than resist the false content on our phones. We will need to resist the false gravitational presence our phones so subtly exert upon us.” - Desiring God

The Fundamentals of Sanctification - Don Johnson

“26% of Republicans and 25% of Democrats – say large corporations have a positive effect” on the country. - Pew

“Lacking empathy, narcissists can exploit and discourage others. They charm colaborers, then dismiss them when they serve no purpose. Narcissists also think they do no wrong.” - TGC

In these strange new “perilous times” (2 Tim. 3:1), it takes an awful lot to shock us. An unexpected trend has emerged, however, that is so unthinkably disturbing that we hate to even fathom it. It involves pushing a random stranger down onto subway tracks, or even in front of an oncoming train.

If more evidence were needed for the depraved nature of man, I am not sure where it could come from. But this is not mere depravity—it is a form of debauchery and degradation that only occurs in the final stages of cultural descent.

No matter what anyone says about such hideous crimes, one thing is beyond dispute: Anyone who could perpetrate such lawlessness is not thankful to their Creator God.

Dear Faculty, Staff and Students,

The Bob Jones University Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the re-election of Steve Pettit to a three-year term as President by an overwhelming majority on Thursday, November 17, 2022. The Board strongly supports the President and is committed and enthusiastic about working together with the President and the administration to fulfill the mission of the University for God’s glory.

“As a theistic evolutionist, Craig accepts without critique the evolutionary consensus, believing that God used the process of evolution to bring about biological diversity. However, unlike many theistic evolutionists, he affirms the actual historical existence of an original human pair” - Eikon

“Theonomy is utterly dependent upon the embrace of a postmillennialism that inevitably demands the implementation of a Christian theistic ethic into the fabric of every society. This makes nearly every form of theonomy a present non-reality that is dependent on a misconstrued eschatological hope.” - Nicholas Batzig