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Saturday Selections – June 27, 2026
Envy is a sin. Wealth isn’t. If you could make everyone twice as wealthy, would you do it? This is an odd fellow, making a great point about how poverty, not income inequality, is a problem. And secular fellow that…
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NewsSaturday Selections – August 4, 2018
Parents: act, don’t react! This is an incredibly helpful piece of parenting advice on the topic of disciplining and spanking. When we react, we are…
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NewsWhy do more today feel like have-nots?
Back in 1988 a Pew Research poll of Americans found that a majority thought they were doing quite well, describing themselves as “haves.” Just 17%…
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Saturday Selections – July 28, 2018
How to help your daughter deal with mean girls Three tips on how to help your girls deal with – and not become – mean…
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Saturday Selections – July 21, 2018
Differences between salvation in the Qur’an and the Bible Three key differences, including that the Qur’an teaches Jesus did not die on the cross. On…
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NewsThe PCUSA and the need for more praise from the “mouth of babes”
This past June the largest Presbyterian denomination in the US – the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) – held their 223rd General Assembly. This is a…
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NewsJustin Trudeau, and what the need for two witnesses would have us do
On August 4, 2000, the 28-year-old Justin Trudeau was in Creston, BC to have fun at a festival put on by a beer company. Ten…
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Saturday Selections – June 30, 2018
A refresher on the Columbo Tactic This past Spring, RP brought Tim Barnett around Canada to teach a couple of very effective apologetic tactics. In…
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Saturday Selections – June 23, 2018
What submission means for singles Wives are called to submit to their husbands so does that mean submission is only for marriage? Supercomputers don’t compare…
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Saturday Selections – June 16
Free book on what it means to be a man What does it mean to be a godly man? Dr. Bredenhof reviews The Masculine Mandate,…
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NewsEntertainment industry stands strong for what’s wrong
Veteran actor Robert De Niro made news on Sunday for a very short speech – just 17 words. His assignment, at the Tony Awards, was…
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Saturday Selections – June 9
I believe in “theistic evolutionist” Dr. Bredenhof on the disingenuous way some in the creation/evolution debate describe their positions. Airport security: where do we draw…
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NewsPossible evidence of life on Mars may have been discovered…perhaps. Or not.
When the Mars Rover’s latest findings – organic molecules – were reported in early June it unleashed the latest round of hype about the possibility…
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NewsNew euthanasia code illustrates Dutch slippery slope
Doctors in the Netherlands are getting mail. Every single general practitioner in the country – some 14,000 – will receive their own copy of the…
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Saturday Selections – June 2
Why do churches need good organs and good organists? An interesting perspective on organs from someone outside Dutch Reformed circles. Antony van Leewenhoek: a Dutchman…
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NewsAustralian rugby player won’t back down
Editor’s note: After this article was posted, it was suggested that Israel Folau might be a Trinity-denying (and thus, heretical) Oneness Pentecostal, and he did…
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Saturday Selections – May 26, 2018
I want to buy your cheapest phone Tim Challies has bought a “dumb” phone to help him regain balance and control over his “digital assistant.”…
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NewsAre young people the loneliest generation?
In our ever more connected age, somehow loneliness seems to be growing. Earlier this year the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, appointed a “minister of…
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NewsDonald Trump, G.K. Chesterton, and the 10,000 Commandments
During his campaign, Donald Trump promised he would get rid of two regulations for every one that he added. Why make such a pledge? Because…
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Saturday Selections – May 12, 2018
5 questions to ask a book before you read it Tim Challies lists 5 questions to “help you filter the few books you will read from the…
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MusicU2 shows us how love can hurt
It’s been quite a week for U2. In the space of just four days, the Irish rock band took public stands in favor of homosexuality,…
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Saturday Selections – April 28, 2018
Rosaria Butterfield on hospitality On how hospitality is both easier and more radical than we know. And far more important too! Why I am a…
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NewsSouth Korean babies: going, going….
Last year South Korea had the lowest number of babies born since their statistics agency started tracking this back in 1970. The decline has been…
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NewsSaturday Selections – March 31, 2018
Materially blessed like no other generation “…if the media truly reported the important changes in the world, “they could have run the headline NUMBER OF…
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HomosexualityWhen a gay couple wants you to help them celebrate sin
Back in 2012, an American couple that rented out their barn for weddings ran into trouble when two ladies wanted to reserve it for a…
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News“Non-binary” fellow takes on feminist law
In mid March news broke of yet another “first,” this time in an Oregon county where Venn Sage Wylde, a “non-binary candidate” – a man…
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NewsGlenn Beck on Stephen Hawking (1942-2018): When almost right is completely wrong
When renown theoretical-physicist and atheist Stephen Hawking, 76, passed away March 14, it made headlines around the world. He was probably the world’s best known…
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NewsEpiscopalians consider non-binary/feminine pronouns for God
The 1.7 million member Episcopal Church opposes the death penalty, supports legalized abortion, and ordains both women and homosexuals into office. Now one diocese has…
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NewsNew Gerber “spokesbaby” has Down syndrome
Since 2010, Gerber, the baby food company, had conducted an annual photo contest to find real-life Gerber babies – the winner is then their “spokesbaby”…
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NewsLeaving Frozen out in the cold?
For show biz, as elsewhere, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Hollywood stands to benefit from whatever controversy it can generate. Disney is one…
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NewsEuthanasia in the Netherlands: So bad even some supporters are now opposed
The Netherlands is a pioneer in the field of euthanasia. In 2002, it was the first country in the world to legalize physician-assisted suicide, and…
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NewsBilly Graham (1918-2018): The last of the Great Revivalists
Without a doubt, Billy Graham has had a huge role in shaping American Christianity. His death on February 21, 2018 signals the passing of an…
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NewsFeminists vs. transgenders? Why the Left is turning on itself.
In Judges 7 Israel is faced with a fearsome foe, and God decides to use that foe’s strength against it. Gideon and his 300 get to watch as…
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Saturday Selections – Feb 10, 2018
What does a kind husband look like? Some thoughts on the lies that husbands can tell about God in the way they treat their wives,…
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News26-year-old woman gives birth to 25-year-old girl
We start counting our age from the day of our birth, but if we think on that for a moment we realize that’s not, technically,…
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NewsChick-fil-A is always closed on Sunday… except when an ox falls into a pit
The American fast food chain Chick-fil-A is a favorite among Christians for the owners’ unwavering stand against Sunday opening. But it turns out this unwavering…
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NewsChip and Joanna Gaines and global warming
When Fixer Upper’s Chip and Joanna Gaines announced earlier this month that they were pregnant with child number five, the congratulations rolled in. Thousands of…