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Westboro Baptist No More – A Story of Grace

February 9, 2013 By 25 Comments
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In November, Megan and Grace Phelps, two daughters of Brent and Shirley Phelps and Granddaughters of Fred Phelps left Westboro Baptist Church. For those who don't know, Megan took the initiative and brought Westboro Baptist to the social media realm. She was the first in her family to go on Twitter, and was one of the prominent figures of the church. The bold decision she made to leave wasn't easy as she shares with a reporter: Mostly, the tears have subsided—“in public, anyway,” she says … [Read more...]

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14 Ways to Date Your Wife

February 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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1. Spend an evening working on your kiss. Learn how to kiss your wife all over again. 2. Pray for your wife. Pray for her everyday. 3. Remind your wife of the gospel. 4. Make a list of ten things your wife loves to do. Each new time you take your wife on a date, do one of those ten things as your date. 5. Make sure you and your wife are in community and on mission with a healthy, gospel-preaching church. 6. Tickle your wife. 7. Worship God with your wife. 8. Make dinner for … [Read more...]

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Gospel Joy

February 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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God is the God of all grace - 'grace that does everything for man who deserves nothing', and joy is at the heart of grace. Grace is God saving sinful man. Joy is his delight and pleasure in doing so. This he shares with the sinner he saves. In the Greek the word for grace is charis and for joy the word is chara - these show clearly their affinity with each other. Where grace comes it brings the joy of the Lord and as we ask for and receive more grace we experience more joy. Joy is that … [Read more...]

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Lazy Holiness. Moving from passive to active in our pursuit of holiness.

February 6, 2013 By 2 Comments
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The Lord has adopted us to be his children on this condition that we reveal an imitation of Christ who is the mediator of our adoption. Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior. I think it would surprise many that those are the words of John Calvin. Typically when Calvinist's are talked about, most of the time they are portrayed as Christians who are passive in their … [Read more...]

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The Same Grace As Ray Lewis

February 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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The intriguing thing for me is non-Christians are beating Ray Lewis up for quoting scripture and the Christians are beating him up because “uhh, well, uhh, maybe because, he’s a guy who says he’s been changed by the power of Jesus, quoting scripture the best he can, sharing inspiration every chance he gets, representing shirts with scripture, the first words out of his mouth after winning the Super Bowl being scripture, because he’s got a past, he admits he used to be stupid and … [Read more...]

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Why You Suffer, Pastor

February 4, 2013 By 2 Comments
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It is good for a man to bear the yoke of service, and he is no loser when it is exchanged for the yoke of suffering. May not severe discipline fall to the lot of some to quality them for their office of under-shepherds? How can we speak with consoling authority to a situation which we have never known? The complete pastor's life will be an epitome of the lives of his people, and they will turn to his preaching as men do to David's psalms, to see themselves and their sorrows, as in a mirror. … [Read more...]

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Christopher Hitchens, Mortality and Calvinism

February 2, 2013 By 2 Comments
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A month or so ago I finished reading Christopher Hitchens last book, and his last words written, Mortality. Chapter 2 he focuses his attention on his impending death and the role religion plays. More specifically and interestingly he discusses his interaction with different pastors, one being Douglas Wilson. As I read I felt the constant need to gasp for breath. It was painful to read the words of a man contemplating death and being completely oblivious, blind and hard hearted towards God. He … [Read more...]

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Quit Talking About Abortion

February 1, 2013 By 3 Comments
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Editor’s Note: Below is a guest post from my brother, Brendan McCaskell. Brendan is finishing up his B.A. in Business Administration and Biblical Studies at Canadian Mennonite University. He is also a youth pastor at City Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Find his blog at Reformed Ramblings. I grew up in small town of 1000 people. On Easter Sunday my church would push 100. When I was in high school a friend of mine from youth group, Alice (not her real name) got pregnant. News of this … [Read more...]

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32 Things You Might Not Know About Charles Spurgeon

January 30, 2013 By 21 Comments
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January 31, 2013 it will have been 121 years since the great preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed away. In memory of him I bring to you 32 things you might not know about Charles Spurgeon. 1. One woman was converted through reading a single page of one of Spurgeon’s sermons wrapped around some butter she had bought. 2. Spurgeon read The Pilgrim’s Progress at age 6 and went on to read it over 100 times. 3. The New Park Street Pulpit and The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit—the … [Read more...]

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Where are the Facebook Christians?

January 29, 2013 By 2 Comments
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I've started noticing an interesting trend. It used to be called the "Sunday Christian". These are the people who would come to Church on Sunday, go to Bible study on Wednesday, but the rest of the week they would live like any other non-Christian. I've started to see people on Facebook, that are my friends who call themselves Christians but live a life of destruction online. The gospel of Jesus Christ tells us to reach all nations and whatever we do, whether we eat or drink, do it all to the … [Read more...]

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