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By micoots
05/08/2016 0

Why We Should Be Grateful for Flourishing Evangelical Seminaries

The Story: New data reveal that the largest seminaries in America are the most orthodox and evangelical.

The Background: Each year the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) compiles data on their member schools (currently 231 in the United States and 41 in Canada). Chelsen Vicari of the Institute on Religion & Democracy examined the latest data and found that “students seeking training for church ministry in the United States are largely attracted to evangelical Protestant seminaries, a tren..

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By micoots
05/08/2016 0

Don’t Write Just to Get Published

For those of us who love words, we’re drawn to the clack of the keyboard and the parsing of meaning on the page. We feel alive as we wrangle words into sentences; some of us even feel closer to God as we work out our faith by writing about it. Time spent writing feels important, even holy.

But for many of us, running parallel with our love of writing is the desire to get published. This desire can be fueled by the culture at large, which says our writing only matters if our readership is huge a..

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By micoots
05/08/2016 0

Let’s Sing the Beauty of Confession

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By micoots
05/08/2016 0

Stop Having Quiet Times

In the psalms, relationship with God happens out loud. More than 95 percent of the psalms express or invite audible words. Most are spoken directly to God, though often psalms speak to others, inviting them to join in. Some even gives “voice” to the inanimate creation.

So when we read, we hear what’s written, because so much of it is actually happening out loud.

I cry out to you.

Hear the sound of my voice.

With my song I give thanks.

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Shout for joy.

Incline your ear to me, and..

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By micoots
05/08/2016 0

Rediscovering J. C. Ryle’s ‘Holiness’

Editors’ note: Taking the advice of C. S. Lewis, we want to help our readers “keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds,” which, he argued, “can be done only by reading old books.” Continuing our Rediscovering the Forgotten Classics series, we want to survey some forgotten and lesser-known Christian classics. Previously in this series:

On the Road with John Bunyan (Louis Markos)
Dynamics of Spiritual Life (Douglas Groothuis)
J. C. Ryle’s forgotten classic, Holiness: ..