Are the Five Love Languages helpful? Yes, say researchers, but not the way people think
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“the focus on finding a partner’s primary love language can be too restrictive …. ‘all of the behaviors Chapman identified are important.’” - RNS
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“the focus on finding a partner’s primary love language can be too restrictive …. ‘all of the behaviors Chapman identified are important.’” - RNS
“…the book could have been taken to its proper conclusion: that there is something viscerally objectionable about sterilizing children, about blocking their progression to natural puberty, with all its inevitable discomfort and strangeness.” - Public Discourse
Review: ‘Christianity and New Religious Movements’ by Derek Cooper - TGC
An early look at ‘Dispensationalism Revisited: A 21st Century Restatement’ - P&D
“In a time when the political, religious, and cultural challenges strikingly parallel those of Machen’s day, his arguments and actions offer us a set of timeless and timely insights. We would all do well to observe them.” - Public Discourse
“The first reason… I’ve grown tired of this approach is that it typically involves a superficial engagement with Scripture.” - Mere Orthodoxy
“The reading journal that I kept this past year (below) helped me meet my reading goals. It reflects my reading beyond my daily Bible reading or preparation for preaching and teaching.” - Rooted Thinking
“Whenever you’re reading a Christian nationalist author citing historical sources in support of their modern ethno-nationalist positions, you should be suspicious. You absolutely should track down the footnotes. And then you should read that excerpt in context.” - Mere Orthodoxy
“If you mention Packer’s name … you may hear, ‘Yes, I read his classic Knowing God, and it transformed my understanding of who God is.’ That was precisely Packer’s goal” - TGC
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