Two Sundays ago, the sermon was on these parables from Matthew 13: 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys
Two Sundays ago, the sermon was on these parables from Matthew 13: 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys
An Australian couple hired a poverty-stricken woman in Thailand to be the surrogate mother of twins. They took the healthy child but the other one had Downs Syndrome so they left him with the mother. (more…)
After lamenting the state of summer movies, we finally saw one that was just right for the season: The Guardians of the Galaxy. And finally, a comic book movie that has the feel of a comic book. It is exuberant science fiction fantasy with Marvel’s
Roman Catholics don’t believe in divorce. But they do allow for annulments. These involve ecclesiastical tribunals that rule that a valid marriage never existed in the first place. If it was determined that a couple was too young and didn’t know what they were doing
An urban legend is one of those fascinating and sometimes inspiring anecdotes that are presented as true, except they aren’t. One of the ways they are often spread is by sermons. Christian Journalist Bob Smietana had to promise his daughter to stop fact-checking the sermon
Progressives are outraged at the power over the government wielded by big corporations. But, in a comment made in a column on a different subject, George Will observes that the big corporations wouldn’t have the power they do if it weren’t for the existence of
All Christians, including “non-liturgical” Christians, worship with a liturgy, in the sense of a predictable order of worship that reflects their theology. The key question is what the liturgy is and what it means. A new book is out on this subject by Yale worship
One of the latest YouTube “challenges” is to rub alcohol on yourself, set yourself on fire, and then put yourself out before you get burnt up. All the while filming yourself so that you can post it on video. Needless to say, this is resulting
An outbreak of ebola, the horrific viral disease, has killed over 700 people in Africa. It infected two American medical missionaries. They had only one dose of a medicine that might help, whereupon the sick doctor self-sacrificially insisted that the other patient receive it. Now
Carl Trueman argues that Christianity is going into a kind of cultural exile, and he tries to make the case that the church tradition best equipped to endure what awaits us is Reformed theology. Rod Dreher counters by making the case for why his own
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