Many of my students ask whether you can have a calling if you do not believe in God.
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There’s a certain spirituality that adorned our council rooms in the past, and that’s what might be oozing away.
Is it smart to give money outright like this to young people with no directions?
I felt badly about throwing away so many things, but I had to remind myself: it is not my fault my ancestors kept these things. I am not responsible to inherit all my mother’s belongings.
Our house isn’t really “ours.” We’re temporary caretakers of a home that will stand, Lord willing, long after we’re gone.
There must be a lot of incompetent scientists in North America if half their membership still believe in something their own field has apparently disproved!
Your church’s organ can bridge the gap between young and old and provide an amazing depth and richness not only to the sound, but to the experience.
A church denomination intent on family unity has a chance of finding a way to remain united.
Sometimes we plant seeds that will take so long to grow that we know we won’t be alive to reap the benefit of their eventual shade and strength.
더 많이 아는 사람들이 자신의 능력에 대해 더 겸손한 경향을 보이는 것은 그들이 자신의 한계를 더 잘 알기 때문입니다.
The Bible says God hates “lying lips,” but there are also stories, such as Rahab helping the Israelite spies, where lying seems to be a good thing. So is lying sometimes okay?
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Conflicts, disappointments or boredom can begin to accumulate and you find yourself asking the question: When is it time to leave?
The seeds from different grains are food that people and animals can eat.
Recently I started a contracting company with two friends. We fixed the roof of a church and the exterior wall of a house. The church paid promptly. But an elder from the church who owns the house refused to pay the agreed amount.
Those who know more tend to be more humble of their abilities because they are more aware of their own limitations.
When broken people come to churches, they are looking for people who have walked in their shoes. They are seeking a community that becomes a safe place.
As Protestant believers worked harder to distance themselves from Catholicism, I think they left behind some important ways of understanding God.
Faith questions are and should be asked as teens start to make faith their own.
Too many of TULIP’s terms are misleading and easily caricatured; they end up misrepresenting the Canons of Dort and giving a distorted impression of Reformed theology.
Even for those who suffer chronically, God gives, uplifts, and strengthens. Moreover, he uses this suffering to advance the kingdom in mysterious ways.
By now there’s a good chance you’ve heard of the horrific discovery at the home of the recently deceased abortion provider, Dr. Ulrich “George” Klopfer.
In prison he’d been tossed around like a rag doll, mistreated, abused. There’s no mercy for sex offenders in prison. He was terrified to return.