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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

'Blue's Clues' Pride Song Features Drag Queen and Transgender Animals
PNW: Queer Is In, Christian Is Out - A Boom In LGBT Content For Children

...According to Publisher's Weekly, there's scads of LGBT books for kids coming out this year.
Biblical Counseling: You Need Perseverance

God may well have purposely planned for us to go down a hard path for the purpose of building spiritual strength and endurance in us.
Poll: 62% Believe Athletes Should Play on Teams Based on Biological Sex
TGC: Palliative Care and the Art Of Dying Well

...While the benefits of palliative care are multiple, what I would like to focus on here is the importance it gives to spiritual wellbeing.
Gentle Reformation: Psalm 63 and the Temptation Of Christ

...Even still, very few see how Psalm 63 speaks of the life of Christ.
World Mag: A Worldwide Baby Bust

Lawmakers try to find ways to stem a downward fertility spiral.
G3: Be Not Unequally Yoked....With the Woke

What we see in churches today is that many have become yoked to the philosophy of wokeism.
Ligonier: Accepting 'No' As God’s Will

Jesus qualified His prayer: “If it is Your will….” Jesus did not “name it and claim it.”
Crossway: How To Pray For Your Child’s Salvation

Almost every night since they were babies, I have prayed the same prayer for my children...

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Poll: 1 In 5 U.S. Adults Do Not Plan To Get Vaccinated

...Of those, seven percent said they will only get it “if required,” and 13 percent said they will “definitely not” get vaccinated.
PJ Media: Postal Service Has Big Plans To Get Even Worse

...The day of reckoning for the USPS is approaching.
Church Leaders: Church Metrics – Looking Beyond Attendance

Tracking attendance for church metrics doesn’t always measure what we think it does.
Washington Examiner: Supreme Court Term To Wrap Up With a Bang

As the Supreme Court wraps up its spring term, the justices are preparing to weigh in on a series of hot-button issues, including healthcare, voting laws, and college athlete compensation.
World Mag: Brits Restart the Assisted Suicide Debate

Lawmakers in the United Kingdom’s House of Lords are preparing to debate assisted suicide legislation for the first time in more than five years.
Calif. County Demands To Review All of Local Church's Finances

...Santa Clara County is insisting on access to "Calvary's sources of revenue, loans, and budgets, claiming these requests are relevant to determine how much Calvary 'profited' during the pandemic."
American Thinker: Evangelical Lutherans Accept Self-Mutilation as Christian

...It is with shock that we see sexual mutilation held up as a positive advance for women — so much so that it is being incorporated into a denomination that once stood for the elevation of women.
Why Pastors Should Use More Historical Illustrations In Sermons

...Sermon illustrations are tricky....Sermon illustrations are the flavoring to the meat of the text. Without them, you’re bland. But too much, and you’re overbearing.
Townhall: Marxism and the Military?

Can anybody name a square inch spot on the planet anywhere where Marxism has brought anything good?
TGC: Why Our Church Will Unplug From Streaming

...We believe it is time to cut the feed.
For the Church: Manners For Social Media In Polarized Times

...Is all our careless ranting displaying the glory and beauty of Christ? Surely it is time to change.
Proclaim & Defend: Suffering Wrongfully
Evangelical Mag: Sharing Jesus With Mormon Missionaries

Trying to reach Mormons with the gospel is a tricky endeavour.
Equip: Study Theology Knowing You’ll Never Plumb the Depths of God

If we ever appear to have exhausted our knowledge of God, we’ve certainly committed idolatry because we’re no longer talking about God.

Monday, May 31, 2021

Kent Brandenburg: Memorial Day and Memorials, Their Scriptural Importance

...The idea of memorial comes from God though. We should use symbols, days, statutes, and now what are actually called “memorials” to remember what is very important, not to be forgotten, and use them to motivate us.
Memorial Day 2021: America’s National Treasures

Memorial Day is a time to not only remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice, but to salute the extraordinary Gold Star family members left behind.
OR Gov. Requires Proof of COVID Vaccinations To Enter Churches, Businesses

...Under the updated guidelines, businesses, employers, and faith institutions can determine their own mask use policies. They can choose to no longer require masks but must request that people show proof of vaccination.
Frontpage Mag: Memorial Day and the War On the Home Front

..If the men in Arlington Cemetery were alive today, they would look in dumb disbelief at what America has become in the third century after our founding.
CBN News: How Bibles Sustained American Troops On the Front Lines

...At the Museum of the Bible in Washington, they're observing the Memorial Day by displaying some well-worn Bibles that accompanied soldiers into war.
Athesim Society Issues Press Statement after Leader Gets Saved and Resigns
World Mag: Thanking Mom, Dad, AND Jesus

Michigan school changes course, allows valedictorian's religious message.
How Seven Soldiers Carried One Bible Into 11 Combat Tours

A gift from the Gideons was a good luck charm—and then something more.
Social Disconnection--- Why Many Stay Home Sunday Mornings

... It might be that professing believers who have lost the desire to come to church are simply socially anxious, isolated, and fearful of commitment. What I call “socially disconnected.”
Breitbart: Gym Teacher Put On Leave After Refusing to Address Trans Students by Preferred Pronouns
Veterans Rip Kamala Harris for Tone Deaf Memorial Day Weekend Tweet

...“Enjoy the long weekend,” Harris tweeted from her official account, along with a close-up photo of herself.
Proclaim & Defend: Free Money From Uncle Joe!

...Will we, like drug addicts, become so dependent upon the government dole that we will compromise our faith to keep it? Will we be willing to walk away from the cash?
Capstone: The Great Reset of the American Church

...Every institution of American society is sprinting leftward at a breakneck speed. The Church is not immune to this trend. In fact, there are many Evangelical Elites working to remake the church into...
Price Shock: Inflation Soars To 29-Year High

A key measure of inflation accelerated to a faster-than-expected 3.1 percent annual gain in April, the Commerce Department reported Friday.
Poll: Americans Say Violent Crime Bigger Problem Than Pandemic
Randy Alcorn: What To Do When You Sin

How to handle sin in a God-honoring way isn’t often clearly addressed in the church.
Three Things a Christian Should Consider Before Joining the Military

...Even with all the advantages, as a pastor there are several areas in which I would want to provide counsel to a young person if he or she was considering military service as a vocation.
Justin Huffman: Why Pray Without Ceasing?

...Why pray without ceasing? That seems a tall order for busy people who have many life obligations on their plate already. But consider the biblical inducements to prayer by asking yourself a few questions...
How Fact-Checkers ‘Deceived The Public’ About Virus Outbreak Origins

...Evidence for the lab-leak theory has been publicly available but censored from the public on social media.
WND: COVID-19 Lab Leak Denials Were 'Willful Efforts To Deceive'

...Stunningly, McNeil admitted that there was plenty of evidence for the lab leak early on.
Daily Signal: The Media’s Embarrassing Incuriosity About Wuhan

...This explicit reversal—this undebunking—exposes the ridiculousness of the media’s assertion that they represent facts, truth, and science, and aren’t emotionally blinded by Trump hatred.
Michael Kelley: A Key Question to Ask When Making Decisions

Life is about making decisions. Some are big, some are small – but we all make thousands of decisions every single day. Sometimes those decisions are easy, commonplace--But then there are other decisions – decisions in which the implications of choosing this way or that one are much more apparent.
Tabletalk Mag: Citizens Of a Better Kingdom

...In its pronouncement of judgment on one of the most powerful empires in world history, Daniel 5 assures us that oppression will not stand forever and that human suffering will end.

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Public Discourse: Called To Courage

...God calls each of us by name to a specific path of holiness and service to others.
Chicago Drops Charges of 'Mob Action' vs. Churches Over COVID

A year after bringing charges against two Illinois churches for 'disorderly conduct' and mob-action' for holding church services, the city of Chicago has dropped the citations.
VP Harris Tweets ‘Enjoy the Long Weekend’---No Mention of Memorial Day