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In his book on Christian community, Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” If you haven’t listened
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It is so easy to be misled. It is so easy to get caught up in someone’s agenda or to mistake the power of this world for the power of
Continue readingDon’t Be Misled: Witnessing to Jesus at the End of Time
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The End is Near! Don’t Be Left Behind! Prophecy. Anti-Christ. Israel. The Temple in Jerusalem. Wars and Rumors of Wars. The End Times has become a feverish industry of speculation,
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Wellness. Healing. Protection. Blessing. Transformation. Our age of anxiety has birthed an age of remedies, medication, rituals, and therapies whose promises are often breathtaking. As we feel the loss of
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Flannery O’Connor described the modern world as one ruled by a “tenderness that ends in terror.” Is empathy the same thing as love? Does the Gospel transport us, affirm us,
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We live in a time of incredible instability. Institutions are crumbling. The church’s witness is faltering fatally. Now more than ever, the work of the Spirit in each person’s life–the
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CHURCH-GROWTH STRATEGIES. THE MEGACHURCH MOVEMENT. THE SEEKER-SENSITIVE MOVEMENT. For the last 30 years, the contemporary evangelical church in America has been the subject of intense devotion, intense marketing, and intense
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What tempts you? Why are you tempted? What is so attractive about sin? In this final meditation on John Milton’s Paradise Lost, David reflects on Eve’s dream in Book 5
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How do we understand God in the midst of suffering? What does it mean to search for God and to have trouble finding him? In this meditation on Paradise Lost,
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The Fall of the Rebel Angels… Down through endless darkness and deep perdition. This week in The Reading Room, David plunges deep down into the abyss of the opening books