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By micoots
27/01/2017 0

Gospel Hope in Hookup Culture

If you’ve followed major trends in American life, you’ve heard of “hookup culture.” A brand-new book, American Hookup, by sociologist Lisa Wade shows that boundaries-free sexuality is now the dominant force in shaping campus sexual culture. Wade’s text, driven by reports from students themselves, shows that many are bewildered and broken by modern sexual codes. Wade believes the solution to this reality is to dive further into hookup culture. “We need to say yes to the opportunity for casual sex..

By micoots
26/01/2017 0

Physician-Assisted Dying Threatens Doctors and Gospel Witness in Canada

Physician-assisted dying, or assisted suicide, has been a much-debated topic in North America over the past few years. Collin Hansen recently dubbed it one of 2016’s most important theological stories. With legislation working its way through the courts on both sides of the border, this issue is likely to continue to dominate the headlines for several years to come.

On June 17, 2016, the Canadian Parliament passed Bill C-14 into law, effectively amending the Criminal Code in order to permit cer..

By micoots
25/01/2017 0

A Dying Man Taught Me How to Live

“The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”

— Paul Kalanithi

We like to keep death at arm’s length, and probably farther away. We’re constantly in search of ways to forestall the inevitable. The Grim Reaper, from our first entry into this world, casts a cruel shadow over us. It stalks, hovers, and ultimately has the upper hand. However herculean our attempts, our bodies atrophy—they grow weaker until they are no more. Death might happen suddenly or through the course ..

By micoots
25/01/2017 0

​The Gospel Coalition Is Hiring

The Gospel Coalition (TGC) is seeking an experienced major gift fundraiser to help further its mission of promoting gospel-centered ministry to the next generation.

As Regional Director, this person will help develop fundraising activities and planned giving for a portfolio of major donors within a region of the United States (determined based on the candidate). He or she will represent all program areas of TGC, both international and domestic.

The Regional Director will steward high-capacity ..

By micoots
25/01/2017 0

5 Reasons I’m Glad I Went to Seminary

Currently, I’m a full-time stay-at-home mom raising three children. I run errands, cook meals, and sometimes (if my family’s particularly lucky) I do laundry. I’m more likely to pick up Legos than I am to pick up a theological text, and most of my conversations revolve around the importance of coffee more than the importance of women in the world of theology.

But every now and then, one of my friends will find out I went to seminary. Inevitably, they’ll want to know why. It’s a good question, o..

By micoots
25/01/2017 0

Does Calvinism Need Saving?

Oliver Crisp’s goal in his latest book, Saving Calvinism: Expanding the Reformed Tradition, is rooted in the subtitle and his use of the word “expanding.” To speak of “saving” Calvinism suggests it’s in decline or on the verge of extinction. But of course, as Collin Hansen (and others) have shown, nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, there’s a revival of soteriological Calvinism in the evangelical world. But this is at the center of Crisp’s concern.

Crisp aims in this book to b..

By micoots
24/01/2017 0

Planned Parenthood’s Most Misleading Statistic

“If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it,” said Charles Haddon Spurgeon in an 1855 sermon, “but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old Proverb, ‘A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.’”

Almost a decade ago, Planned Parenthood began telling a monstrous lie, one so light and airy that it continues to fly around the globe: that abo..

By micoots
24/01/2017 0

On My Shelf: Life and Books with Drew Dyck

On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers.

I spoke with Drew Dyck—acquisitions editor at Moody Publishers, senior editor at CTPastors.com, and author of Generation Ex-Christian and Yawning at Tigers—about what’s on his nightstand, his favorite fiction, books that shaped his thinking, what he’s learning about life and following Jesus, and more.

What’s on your nightstand right now?

Right now, I’m wrapping up It’s Dangerous..

By micoots
24/01/2017 0

How Our Ministry Methods Warp Our Souls

“Whether you know it or not, you just are in a position of power.”

This was Eugene Peterson’s response to our inquiry concerning the unique challenge pastors face in relation to power. Our conversation with Eugene was part of a long journey to discover what it meant to embrace power in weakness. He was, of course, correct. Those of us in ministry are all in a position of power. As such, we’ve all embraced a certain form of power. The question is not if we’ve embraced power, but what kind of pow..

By micoots
24/01/2017 0

Church Planting in the Land of Desire

When we told our donors we were leaving the campus ministry to plant a church in the southern California suburbs—land of affluence and megachurches—we not only lost several, we also heard the repeated question: Aren’t there enough churches there already?

I wondered too. Couldn’t we be more useful in an unreached part of the country? Or overseas?

We can subtly think that when Jesus said to “go to the ends of the earth” he meant only jungles and inner cities, not the affluent suburb next door. ..