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Month: July 2016

First Rest and then Work

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From the resurrection on, nothing else is said of the Mosaic, ceremonial, seventh-day sabbath. God’s people no longer seem to work and rest after the old rotation and strict legislation of the ancient Mosaic manner. Instead, following the Holy Spirit’s guidance and apostolic leadership, the church honors both the Creation Mandate and the Fourth Commandment by gathering for Christian worship and fellowship on the first day of each week. Under Moses they work, work, work, and then they finally res..

Do Not Grieve the Holy Spirit

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We need to remember that the Holy Spirit is not a distant, abstract deity and certainly not an impersonal force. No, the Holy Spirit is a person, for only a genuine and personable being is capable of this kind of thinking, feeling, and emotion. In fact, when we understand that the Spirit is a person it should surprise us only if he would not or could not feel grief in the face of our sin.

One mark of a successful sermon is that it satisfactorily answers some questions while provoking still othe..

Judge Dismisses Charges Against Daleiden, Merritt

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For three years, Daleiden and Merritt worked undercover and gained access to Planned Parenthood center administrators across the nation. Using tactics common to undercover reporters, the pair took on false identities and presented themselves as representatives for a fictitious medical research company. Their work produced hours of secretly recorded videos showing Planned Parenthood officials appearing to barter for the sale of aborted body parts and discuss ways to alter the abortion procedure t..

A Rejoinder to ‘Theonomy, Bahnsen and the Federal Vision’

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Just because a person speaks highly of the law of God in one place in one book does not make him a legalist or the father of legalism. Just because a person has a high view of the efficacy of baptism (as does the Westminster Confession of Faith) in one place in one book does not mean that he denies the work of the Holy Spirit or that he is the father of sacramentalism… Just because a person believes that the covenant has an objective quality does not mean that he is a proponent of Federal Vision..

Testing a Relationship Is Probably the Worst Reason to Cohabit

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“If you are considering whether or not to move in with someone to test the relationship, it’s likely not the wisest thing to do. In fact, it seems to us that many people who are thinking about testing their relationship by cohabiting already know, on some level, what the grade of that test may be; but they are hoping that the answer looks better over time.”

“Majority of Americans Now Believe in Cohabitation.” That’s the headline and conclusion from a national survey conducted by the Barna Group..

Election 2016: Evangelicals Face a “Hagar Moment”

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Christians must be careful not make an idol out of winning at politics. It is better to lose an election than to destroy the credibility of our social witness, especially when it is not clear the candidate Evangelicals seem to be backing is either more competent or “Christian” than the alternative.

The 2016 presidential elections present a “Hagar Moment” for white self-identified Evangelicals. By that I mean we face a similar conundrum faced by Abraham, who undermined God’s will because he lack..

Reformed Protestants Who Pick Nits

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Nor should Martin Bucer be forgotten. He initiated reforms in the city of Strasbourg a year or so after Zwingli’s activities. Bucer also put his stamp indelibly on Calvin when in 1538 Geneva’s city authorities told Calvin to leave. Calvin ministered in Strasbourg for two years to a French speaking congregation and taught at Strasbourg’s academy, an institution that was a model for the Geneva Academy.

John Piper posted for the recent anniversary of John Calvin’s birthday about the origin of Calv..

ISIS introduces new undetectable car bomb: 292 killed in Baghdad by ‘unique, strange and terrible’ weapon

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ReutersPeople gather at the site of a suicide car bomb in the Karrada shopping area, in Baghdad, Iraq on July 3, 2016.

The Islamic State (ISIS) has introduced a new weapon that has been described as “unique, strange, and terrible.”

The weapon is an undetectable car bomb that the terrorist group used in Baghdad on July 3—its deadliest attack yet that killed 292 Iraqis, the BBC reports.

“Daesh [known in the Western world as ISIS] used, for the first time, a new tactic which helped it to move un..

Bible prophecy being fulfilled: Dead Sea coming back to life; fish seen swimming on the shores

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(Wikipedia)A view of the Dead Sea.

In a fulfilment of a Bible prophecy, what is dead is coming back to life!

Since ancient times, the Dead Sea, a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and Palestine to the west, has exactly been what its name says: dead. No sea or plant life can survive the lake's hyper-saline environment—it's nearly 10 times saltier than the ocean—or so scientists have previously thought.

However, researchers discovered in 2011 that life exists at the ..

Christian-Jewish cooperation pushed to counter renewed anti-Semitism: ‘Evil cannot be overlooked’

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ReutersStudents from Germany visit the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. The hall contains pages of testimony commemorating the millions of Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust.

Anti-Semitism is back, something that should compel Christians and Jews to work together because the problem affects them all.

This was one of the messages aired during a recent seminar held by the Yad VaShem memorial at the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.

Ephraim Kaye, Yad VaShem'..

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