Athanasius vs. Arius, the rap battle
Athanasius offers up a hard-rocking right….
Parents hold the key to building strong readers
Between a fifth and a third of Canadian adults struggle with basic literacy – the reading level that allows you to fill out a job application. So what’s to be done? The head of Indigo Canada wants parents to keep their kids away from screens.
5 myths about Deacons
I don’t know if the 4 and 5th myth are all that applicable in any of our churches, but 1 through 3 do pop up sometimes….
For more, Real Talk did a great episode about Deacons with Dr. Van Dam.
Why do 60% of US youth say they prefer socialism?
…because they’ve forgotten the lessons learned from the past. And because the Church isn’t teaching them the same lessons from God’s Word.
Addiction and the local church
Tim Challies: “Of all the pastoral issues a church can face, I think one of the trickiest may be addiction…”
Do we have it worse than our parents and grandparents?
John Stossel notes that things in the 1950s homes were smaller, cars were a lot less nice, and we didn’t live nearly as long. It is important for Christians to be able to count our blessings – one of the sins of Israel was forgetting how God had blessed them (Ps. 106:7,13,21-22) – and it is one of the tricks of the Devil to have us be ungrateful.
Being grateful doesn’t mean we have to view the present with rose-colored glasses and go all Pollyanna on today’s problems. Inflation has made food more expensive. Homes are more expensive than they were 10 years ago. But let’s not let ingratitude blind us to how God continues to provide for us and our church communities too.
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