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Saturday Selections – Mar. 7, 2026

CNN's upcoming hit piece on Christian Nationalism

"Christian Nationalism" is defined all sorts of different ways. Some claim it's just white nationalism wearing a Christian face. Others insist it is a badly mistaken, top-down form of evangelism that wants to use the State to somehow force people to become Christian. And others identifying with the term argue it's about advocating for our nation to submit to the Lord.

These are radically different definitions... so what is it then?

There is more consistency when we listen to the way non-Christians are describing it – Christian Nationalists are those who think God is Sovereign over His people and all people, and His Word is authoritative to Christians but should be so for everyone else too. And if that's the definition then, as Allie Beth Stuckey notes in this video, we're all Christian Nationalists now.

Brace yourself for the AI Tsunami 

They're replacing AI programmers with AI – it's writing its own updates! So what kind of work will remain?

“Lean into what’s hardest to replace. . . . Relationships and trust built over years. Work that requires physical presence. Roles with licensed accountability: roles where someone still has to sign off, take legal responsibility, stand in a courtroom.”

This 16-year-old doesn't think Australia's social-media ban for 15 and under will work

He has three reasons and I'll share two:

  1. The government blew it, banning social media accounts for kids, but that doesn't really limit their access.
  2. This is a parent's job, not the government's.

The second is an explanation for the first – any government action is going to be a big brute force swing at things, and when you have millions of kids looking for a way around it, they'll find a way, and already have. What's needed here is for parents to take up the very responsibility that God has entrusted to them in raising up their children.

But does that mean there is no role for the government? How can parents stand, as individual pairings, against the pull of the algorithms? Especially when their children's friends are under the influence already? As a fellow who thinks that government is most often arrogantly inserting itself where God never intended for it to go, I have to say I have sympathies here for government involvement. Parents do need help.

But as this article highlights, the Australian government tried, and largely muffed it. Might that be because it is indeed a parenting role, and the government is ill suited for it? So whence comes help? God did also give us the Church, and there is certainly room for more involvement in parenting – in the nurturing of it and accountability for it (Titus 2) – on that front.

The 12 Holocausts of 2025

Abortion, the leading cause of death in 2025, killed 10 million more than all causes of death combined. And the dehumanization of the unborn is built on 4 deadly forms of discrimination we all need to know. 

We're drinking a lot less? 

In Ps. 104:15, the psalmist speak to how God makes the wine that gladdens the heart. In moderation, a cold beer or a brown cow on ice can be a wonderful thing. But with the general lack of moderation in our culture, it's probably very good news that the world's top alcohol companies have lost almost a trillion dollars in stock valuation over the last 4 years.

A tree becomes a cross

This 12-minute Oscar-nominated short film took 200 volunteers six years to make. Why all that work and devotion? Because they had something to say – this was a specifically Christian effort to tell a story of undeserved love that has more than an echo of the Gospel in it.

John MacArthur picture by IslandsEnd and used under a CC BY 3.0 license.

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When they went after Barry Neufeld...

Barry Neufeld was a school trustee in Chilliwack, British Columbia. He was elected for three terms in 2011, 2014, and 2018, earning the second-most vo...
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Saturday Selections – Feb. 28, 2026

Canada about to murder its 100,000th citizen via MAiD When you become callous about life, and see ending it as compassionate, then how can you object...
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No jail for man who admits to killing his partner

“An Ottawa man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his ailing husband has been sentenced to two years less a day of house arrest for ...
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Saturday Selections – Feb. 21, 2026

When they weaponize ChatGPT against our kids... (15 min) I normally share shorter videos but made an exception here because this is a must-see for pa...
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Saturday Selections – Feb. 14, 2026

Reformed and Dangerous's Mortification of Sin Reformer John Owen returns... with reverb. (And you can get the shirt here.) The mysterious power of male sexuality Tim Challies on how male sexuality – often portrayed as purely problem by the world and even Christians – was originally made good by God, and does indeed have a powerful good purpose. The truth about Tumbler Ridge When a killer murdered 8 people, injured 25 more, and then murdered himself in the small northern BC town of Tumbler Ridge this past week, the media was quick to make points about guns, but not about the elephant in the room – that the killer was a man who claimed to be a woman. We can call it mentally ill, but we shouldn't lose sight of it simply being wicked, and it is a wicked society that reinforces this. As Samuel Sey noted, "A society that encourages trans people to not value the bodies that God gave them shouldn’t expect them to value the bodies that God gave to others." There is something going on here with trans-identifying shooters becoming increasingly common, and again, Samuel Sey says what few others are willing to notice: “A 2022 Quebec study reveals that transgender youth are the most likely group to support violent radicalization. When we encourage people to identify as victims, vengeance and violence are inevitable.” Rev. Jim Witteveen is another who is noticing. He has noticed that the evolution of transvestism from pathology to a lifestyle that must be always honored (even when you've murdered 9) shows "the entire worldview of modern psychiatry is built on shifting sand. There is no stability to it. It has no foundation in reality." The necessary gift of dependence The author writes as someone who is wheelchair bound, struggling with his dependence on others, but realizing that all of us are, always and forever, entirely dependent on God. And we are, even in our dependence, still used by Him to help others. How to guide your children through the Digital Age The algorithm is shaping your kids. You can help them resist by: teaching them to ask "what message is this digital media trying to communicate?" Help them spot the worldview being pushed. reclaiming the silence in your own life and showing them how it can be done. We don't need constant distraction. helping them see through the online identity trap. You are not how many followers you have. Parents need to model it, if we're going to pass it on. Making complementarianism work... This gent offers up quite a good quick overview of headship in marriage. ...

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When reporting both sides is bias disguised

When Alberta's government began, last year, to respond to the problem of sexually-explicit materials on public school library shelves, it might have seemed to some that the media coverage was fair. After all, both sides were given space to have their say. So, for example, when CBC ran the headline, "Alberta bans school library books it deems sexually explicit," it stated as fact that the government was banning books – how's that for politically-charged terminology? – but they did include, in a smaller sub-head, that the "Education minister says province's new standards aren't about banning books." Not quite equal time, but... fair-ish, right? In CBC reporter Emily Williams' piece "The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools" she shared the public schools' objection: "As a result of the ministerial order, several excellent books will be removed from our shelves this fall." But Williams also included Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides' response that his government wasn't trying to ban The Handmaid's Tale, but was instead trying to get sexually-explicit sexual content off public school shelves. So, both sides, right? Well, as Christian journalist Ted Byfield noted, there's not just two sides to the story. And one of the sides the media didn't report on here is telling, and much more important than what they focused on. Williams' article included the list of the more than 200 books the Edmonton Public School (EPS) system said they were going to have to pull of their shelves to comply with the government's mandate. This wasn't a list the government made; this was the list the EPS made and then used to characterize the government's efforts as book banning – going after famed and problematic classics like Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged and, yes, The Handmaid's Tale. Still, EPS's list was there, available for anyone interested to peruse. And isn't that what reporters do? Peruse, investigate, uncover? Well, some perusing was done, but almost exclusively in one direction. CBC and other outlets reported on the aforementioned famous books that made the government look like book banners. But what reporters didn't do is look into how much filth there actually was on the list. The press didn't look for books that'd confirm the need for winnowing. They didn't question why the public schools were being so negligent as to expose our children to pornography. They didn't highlight the outrageous examples of available comics that had pages of nudity, graphically depicted oral sex, showed a child being stripped for abuse, and showed another being sexually humiliated. Those details were made available by the Minister of Education, but they didn't show up in any of mainstream media accounts I read. So I did some of the work they wouldn't, checking up on the list's first 25 books as they were presented alphabetically. I discovered that 15 were clearly and wildly inappropriate. These were all books that, had they been read aloud or shown at a public school board meeting, would likely have gotten the presenting parent booted. The 15 books were: 9 books from Kanoko Sakurakoji’s Black Bird manga series Kentarō Miura’s graphic novel Berserk, Vol. 3 Talia Hibbert’s Act Your Age, Eve Brown Neil Gaiman‘s American Gods Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho Daria Snadowsky‘s Anatomy of a boyfriend Emily Henry‘s Beach Read 15 out of 25 amounts to 60%. And that's just the titles that were clearly crazy, with secular reviewers describing them as "rapey" and "sexually obsessed." The other 10 weren't necessarily good either; it was just that in my research it wasn't as clear that they were so blaringly bad. The mainstream media made this about the 5 or 6 "classics" at risk. I don’t know if that 60% rate would have held up, but if so, then that would have amounted to more than 100 obscene books – 60% of 226 works out to 135– being pushed on kids via the province's public school libraries. Where were the "Edmonton Public Schools own up to being porn-peddlers" headlines? While Christians should attempt to be fair – reporting on others as we would want to be covered ourselves (Matt. 7:12) – Reformed Perspective doesn't pretend to be unbiased. We have our bias firmly in place: the Earth is the Lord's, and everything in it. And with that bias comes a different sort of way of looking at the world, where teachers and schools entrusted with acting in loco parentis – acting in the place of parents – should, like a parent, be eager to protect the children in their care. That was the story here. And that was the story that was almost entirely missed by the mainstream media....

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Saturday Selections – Feb. 7, 2026

Is the Church the true Israel? It's R.C. Sproul vs. John MacArthur in the epic rap battle that they surely must have had at one of those Ligonier conferences back in the day... But who would build the roads? One of the justifications for our ever expanding government is the notion, "If the government doesn't do it, who will?" That was the justification for the takeover of everything from education to healthcare, garbage pickup to mail delivery, and so much more. I live in a city in which garbage pickup is done by private enterprise, which I couldn't have imagined anyone but the government doing... until I saw it being done better by a business. So this article, about how some roads were built long ago by private citizens, is an exercise in imagination – who knows how small we might be able to shrink our inefficient government if only we started considering what might well be possible without them? Dying to give Aaron Renn with why parents should financially bless their children now, and not wait until after the funeral: "A dollar at 25 can change a destiny. A dollar at 55 barely moves the needle." That's true, but of course there is some middle path that needs to sought here – too much help too early might amount to spoiling your 20-year-old's drive. Too little help, when it was yours to offer, might mean they are stopped from achieving what they otherwise might have been able to do with your help. 4 sermons many churches won't preach Worth noting, even if you go to a conservative church where these will be heard, because the pressure to shut up about these still exists even there – the world presses in. 20 US Democratic presidential contenders are asked whether a man can become a woman... ...and guess how many said "no"? It's getting to a point in the US where the Left doesn't want to stand too strongly for trans ideology. But they also won't speak against it. Only one was willing, and even he still wanted parents to be allowed to poison their kids with cross-gender hormones that – he himself acknowledges – won't transition anyone. The GOP is certainly not God's Own Party, but it's not a bit of slander to say the Democrats are indeed the Devil's very own, and this is just one more example. Is morality subjective? Lying is wrong, but if there is a Nazi soldier at your door asking whether you are hiding Jews, lying can be right. So does that mean morality is subjective? The Christian knows that's not so – we aren't lying just for kicks, but because we are acting out of love for our neighbor. God's Law is still the objective standard for our actions. But even the moral relativist will get tripped up here. Their case for subjectivism just doesn't stand. ...

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Court rules that Emergencies Act against “Freedom Convoy” was unlawful

Four years ago, in February 2022, Canada’s federal government invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time since it was enacted back in 1988, granting itself extraordinary power to break up the truckers’ convoy that assembled in Ottawa and elsewhere to protest Covid policies. By invoking the Act, the government received the power to prohibit citizens from assembling, as well as freeze bank accounts of those involved in the protests, and even ban and freeze crowdfunding, among other measures. In January of this year, the country’s Federal Court of Appeal made a unanimous decision, agreeing with the lower court ruling from 2024, that the government had not been legally justified to making use of the Emergencies Act. The court ruled that the protests “fell well short of a threat to national security.” The court also found there simply wasn’t sufficient evidence to back up the government’s claim that the convoy posed a threat of serious violence. “When all these legal and factual considerations are taken into account, we fail to see how the could ‘reasonably believe’ that a threat to national security existed at the time the decision to invoke the Act was made.” This decision is a good example of why civil governments need checks and balances on themselves, given our sinful human condition, and particularly a check on the age-old thirst for more power. The legislative and executive branches require the accountability and safeguards that are supposed to come from the Constitution, through the oversight of the judicial branch. For Christians, obeying the Romans 13 command to “be subject to the governing authorities” isn’t as simple as submitting to whatever the Prime Minister or Governor General orders in a given moment. In this case, it was the Prime Minister and Governor General that were acting illegally, and not the private citizens – the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Constitution Foundation, among others – who successfully challenged them in court....

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Saturday Selections – Jan. 31, 2026

Reformed and Dangerous's Christ is King A little harder rocking than some of us might be used to, but the fire in the music is a match for the power ...
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 24, 2026

Why does Denmark own Greenland? (3 min) Lots of talk going on about Greenland as of late. Here's a quick primer on how Greenland came to be Danish......
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 17, 2026

Studio C's Stu Stews Sue's Soup This is just so fun :) The Bible encourages seeking out a spouse Two facts: In God's providence, not all o...
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Court case seeks to force religious groups to provide euthanasia
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Two Covid convictions against Pastor Koopman vacated

Four years after the fact, two of more than 20 Covid-era convictions against Rev. John Koopman, pastor of the Chilliwack Free Reformed Church, have now been vacated, which is to say, undone. Pastor Koopman was charged for taking part in worship services in 2020 and 2021, at a time when the province’s Health Officer imposed a complete ban on in-person worship services, even while bars, gyms, and other secular establishments were allowed to stay open. The Chilliwack Free Reformed Church opened their doors for worship, while complying with all of the other public health orders such as social distancing and masking. The church then joined a couple of other churches in launching a constitutional challenge to the Health Order. They were represented in court by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), as they reported it, another issue at play was religious discrimination: “Pastor Koopman and other pastors then submitted an accommodation request to the BC Provincial Health Office to gather for in-person services, but their request received no response for several weeks. At the same time, Dr. Henry’s office had been responding within one or two days to accommodation requests from Orthodox Synagogues, permitting them to gather indoors.” The lower court dismissed the churches’ challenge in March of 2021 in part, the JCCF reports, because the churches had just been allowed to gather outdoors. Meanwhile the charges against the pastors and the churches continued on. They faced $40,000 in fines. Many of these charges were later dropped or reduced, but Pastor Koopman was convicted of others, most recently as of Feb. 2025. Now two of those convictions have been vacated but based on technicalities, rather than a real assessment of what happened. As the JCCF noted: “While the correction resolved a technical error in the court record, it did not address the broader constitutional concerns raised about the ban on in-person worship services and the unequal treatment of faith communities during lockdowns.” Pastor Koopman was also grateful for the Crown’s acknowledgement of error: “Dr. Henry and the government should carefully evaluate their entire approach, for this is only one of many errors which were made, the greatest of which is the restriction of the public worship of our God.”...

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Saturday Selections – Jan. 10, 2026

The Mutation Myth: what Evolution doesn't want you to know (8 minutes) We’re told random mutations drive evolution– mutations are supposed to be "the engine behind every new trait and species on Earth." Turns out, though, that what the science shows again and again is mutations don't build life, they break it down! Interestingly, breaking things down can sometimes help an organism, in much the way that stripping the seats out of your car can make it more fuel-efficient. But this kind of breaking things down doesn't show how new molecular machines could be built. This is from Discovery Science, an Intelligent Design think tank. They aren't creationist, or even specifically Christian. So all they are showing here are the scientific shortcomings of Evolution, and if you want more of that, be sure to check out their Science Uprising series. There are good and bad reasons to leave a church ....and it might just be the reason you are thinking you should leave is an indication of why God wants you to stay. The case for sexfulness in marriage This is a longer article on an seldom-discussed topic, because it is PG-rated (but only to the same degree as the Song of Songs is). How many dominos do we go back in Indigenous land claims? John Carpay offers a basically secular take in the linked article about Indigenous land claims, so I'll offer up a biblical passage that has some application (and there are certainly others). Matthew 7:1-2 says it is justice to have the measure by which we judge others applied to ourselves. In the land acknowledgments stated before university classes and municipal meetings, there's sometimes a reference to tribes who have been here "from time immemorial" or some such phrase. The point of that claim is that the European settlers took it relatively recently from Indigenous tribes who had been there previously forever. But Indigenous tribes moved, and caused other tribes to move on. So the Indigenous group that might have had land taken from them by the settlers, did the same to whoever lived there before them – the dominoes go back way more than just the one block. So, if the last must be returned, then why just to the most recent tribe who themselves were takers too? And if that standard is thought unreasonable because of how hard it would be to work out, then let's apply this new "workability standard" to the situation today too. US abortions rose more than 20% after Roe vs. Wade In 2022 the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision, which had legalized abortion the US for the past previous 50 years, was overturned. But the overturned decision didn't actually protect the unborn – it just made it legal for the individual states to start doing so. Some started. But the Trump administration has allowed Joe Biden-era "abortion by mail" prescriptions to continue, and this kind of abortion has exploded since 2022. The end result? Abortions have risen from an average of 80,000/month in 2022, to 98,000/month in 2025. This highlights how it isn't just a legal ruling we need to save the unborn, and not even a somewhat sympathetic government, as the American pro-life movement has in the Trump administration. What's been largely missing from the abortion debate is an explicitly Christian witness that explains why we need to protect unborn children everywhere, not simply in some states. We need to challenge our culture, teaching them that while they have no explanation for anyone's worth God has given us value by making us in His Image (Gen. 9:6). Like in every aspect of life, what we need here is the Gospel. And without it, even an inconceivable legal win will do very little all on its own. California shows what a minimum wage hike can do to the poorest Governments across the Western world have implemented laws requiring a certain minimum hourly wage that employers must pay. The notion behind these laws is to prevent business owners from exploiting their workers. But what these laws presume is that the government knows what's best for everyone. What this video shows is, when the government pretends to know far more than they ever could, they cause all sorts of harms. And it just doesn't matter if that's not at all what they intended. ...

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Explicit books being pulled from government school libraries in Alberta

In the wake of a government order that made waves around the world in 2025, the two largest school divisions in Alberta reported in early 2026 that they have started pulling books with sexually explicit images. According to CTV, the Edmonton Public School Board reported that they have removed 34 titles while the Calgary Board of Education said that 44 titles have been removed from shelves in their schools. Sadly, even the Edmonton Catholic School Division reported that they had to remove six books. Last summer, a Ministerial Order was introduced, requiring school boards to develop standards around what materials are deemed suitable for school libraries. This was the result of a consultation with the public, including 77,395 responses to an online survey. As a result of the order, the Edmonton Public School Board identified over 200 titles as having to be pulled because of the government’s sexually explicit content policy, and their list included well-known, often-discussed classics like 1984 and Brave New World. This resulted in a public outcry that was covered by media outlets around the world. Premier Danielle Smith turned to X and Facebook to respond: “I’m going to be more explicit than usual so there is no misunderstanding this policy: 1. Get graphic pornographic images out of school libraries. 2. Leave the classics on the shelves. 3. We all know the difference between the items in 1 and 2. Let’s not play any more games in implementing this policy for our kids.” The provincial government did then amend its order to target only visual depictions of explicit sexual activity. It has been known for many years now that graphic sexual content is being pushed in public school libraries, along with children’s sections of public libraries, in towns and cities across the country. This has been going on even while our secular culture is grappling with the consequences of hypersexualization of youth. Even the Quebec government, known for pushing a radical secular worldview, recently published a report about “hypersexualization” that noted: “the huge amount of sexual content that is publicly available generates a distorted understanding of gender relationships, beginning at a very early age.” They added: “hypersexualization can lead to precocious sexual behaviour among young people. Fascinated by the images they see on television and the Internet, they sometimes adopt behaviours borrowed from adult sexuality without having the maturity required to deal with the situations that may result.” In spite of the obvious harm, Alberta is the only government in Canada that has had the courage to take action, and even their decision continues to allow sexually explicit content in the reach of the province’s vulnerable youth. God is being loving to us in giving us the gift of sexuality, while placing safeguards around sex: a committed lifelong relationship of marriage between a man and a woman. As a fence around a swimming pool allows a family to enjoy the pool safely, so God’s safeguards around sex allow sex to be a blessing, first for married couples, but indirectly for the flourishing of children and all society. Top photo supplied by the Alberta Government and used with permission. ...

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Saturday Selections – Jan. 3, 2026

A pastor's review of the animated movie David I'm very hesitant about any film depictions of Jesus, wondering if they violate the principle of God's Second Commandment not to make any graven images of Him (Ex. 20:4). Then there is also the practical consideration that whenever someone does depict Jesus, they always manage to mess things up. But what about film depictions of other biblical stories? The Second Commandment doesn't apply then. But there would still be a need for reverence in treating God's Holy Bible as the sacred text it is. Too often, though, how it's treated is as some first draft that needs to be improved on – and as this pastor highlights, in the new animated David, that's what's happened again. We have smartphones so why memorize Scripture? "The Word of God must enter the mind and heart to bring life, health, and fruit. As long as it stays external to us, whether in print or digital form, it can do us no good. That we now have such easy access to massive books doesn’t change that fact at all. An unused Bible app on the phone is the same as a closed and dusty Bible on the shelf..." Matthew’s genealogy isn’t missing a name—it’s making a claim (10-minute read) Matthew's genealogy in his opening chapter traces the line of Jesus from Abraham through three sets of 14. But it gives just 41 names. The math is wrong? No indeed. This is a longer read, but another one of those instances where it can be fun to really dig into a familiar passage to figure out more of what God is presenting us here. Why all the frenzy over Christian Nationalism? Awful used to mean, "full of awe" and literally can now mean non-literally, so words can be hard to nail down, with ever-shifting meanings. But in some cases it is up to us to stand by the definition that God has set. Much of our cultural battle is over the dictionary, involving attempts to undermine what God has declared. So, for example, "gay marriage" simply isn't a thing, and not because we are taking issue with how the word "gay" has changed over time. No, the issue is that God gets to define what marriage is, and no one else, and He has so defined it as to preclude pairings of two men or two women. So too, with the term "Christian Nationalism." All sorts of folks identify with the term, complicating our discussion of it, so a good first step in having any sort of intelligent discussion is to start with God's definition. And here, again, one part of the term has room to wiggle and change but not the other. So if a group of racists want to describe themselves as "Christian Nationalists" we should say, "No, you are not, because God has so defined 'Christian' as to preclude any pairing with 'racist"' (Gen. 1-2, Gal. 3:28). That's what we should do, instead of taking these people seriously. Doing so would save us all a lot of time, and allow the discussion to focus in on where it needs to be: on how we can encourage one another to speak God's Name boldly in the public square, and how we can better present His Truth to a nation in desperate need of Him. Your wife is Beauty: The Song’s response to male sexual distortion This is an article for Christian counselors helping men addicted to pornography who, consequently, don't find their wife as attractive as before. The counsel offered is of benefit to any and all: "I have relatives who live in Colorado Springs. Every day they wake up in the shadow of Pike’s Peak, which is a beautiful mountain vista. Every time I visit, it takes my breath away. But, if I were to guess, many people in Colorado Springs do not appreciate this view because it has become too normal and mundane to them. It is only by starting to look at and appreciate the unique beauty of that particular view that we can be formed in this way. Your counselee’s wife is beautiful. If he has not reckoned it to be so, he has missed something that is very true right in front of him. So, have him look." Rivers and Robots' Provider Don't know this group, but really enjoyed this video, which their fans around the world helped them create. ...

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Saturday Selections – Dec 27, 2025

All human conflict is ultimately theological  Abortion has long been treated as the sacrament of Left – a sacred right beyond question, accompanie...
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4 out of 5 Canadians give like Scrooge

The Fraser Institute’s “Generosity Index” for 2025 revealed that a scant 0.52% of all income is being donated to charities. To add to this, the ...
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Saturday Selections – Dec. 20, 2025

Hummingbirds proclaim their Creator Don't know if this is made by Christians, but these mini-marvels are very evidently made by Christ. Alberta ...
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Saturday Selections – Dec. 13, 2025

Chickens are cooler than you knew (6 min) We all know chickens have the astonishing ability to turn grain into a key ingredient for Egg McMuffins, bu...
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Saturday Selections – Dec. 6, 2025

Rosaria raps? Here's the wild, wacky, and wonderful side of AI – Reformed rap battles that never were, but brought to you anyway with this newest tech. This time we have one on homosexuality, with Rosaria Butterfield taking on a "woke leftist" and what's awesome here is there is no caricaturing happening – the young lady gets to say her piece in as convincing a fashion as you'd ever hear it. And Rosaria offers her up the truth unvarnished. An upside-down guide to high school A recent high school grad remembers what it was like to start high school, and the three major "traps" high schoolers face: I have to make a name for myself The more friends, the merrier My grades = my future Number killed via IVF surpasses those of abortion Approximately 96,000 US babies were born via IVF in 2023 and for some that is reason enough to call government policies promoting IVF "pro-family" and "pro-life." However, while in the US 1 million children are murdered each year via abortion, a new report says that between approximately 2 million and nearly 4 million children were murdered during the IVF process. That means that abortion and IVF combined likely account for more deaths than all other causes combined. And that is not pro-life. 3 quick tips for teaching delayed gratification This is an economics website, but even economists seem to understand that gratitude starts with expressing our thanks to God. If I invest based on my values, won’t my investments underperform? We'd never invest in an abortion clinic, but some of the large investment funds many of us have in our portfolio might well invest in abortion, risqué entertainment, gambling, and other ventures we'd certainly want no part in. But if we are more selective in our investment, does that have to come at a cost to our returns? Maybe. But not necessarily. Real communism has never been tried? (5 min) Communism has failed everywhere it's been tried, so how do today's communists explain that? Well, they claim that real communism has never been tried. But what does that even mean? ...

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Saturday Selections – Nov. 29, 2025

One reason God gives us each other None of us are God, so we aren't going to know it all. And sometimes we aren't even going to know what it is that we don't know, as John Cleese notes below. That's one reason God gives us the communion of saints so we can support each other (Eccl. 4:9–12), including learning from our brothers and sisters. As Solomon tells us in Proverbs 12:15: "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice." Speak, even if they don't listen? Ezekiel was commissioned to speak God's truth whether His people listened or didn't. The results aren't in our hands, but His. Only two-thirds of US Christians believe we've all sinned If evangelizing to non-Christians is intimidating, George Barna's latest study shows there's plenty of evangelism that needs to be done among those who profess to be Christian. The lesbian seagulls that weren't For a while there, Christians who were too afraid or too embarrassed to cite the Bible, would instead try to point out the wrongness of homosexuality by highlighting how "unnatural" it was. And that is certainly true – God designed our parts to interact a certain way, and if you try the other it can result in incontinence. So it was a thing when an island of lesbian seagulls was discovered – look, homosexuality in nature, so it is natural! But now it has turned out, the lesbian birds were probably due to some chemicals being sprayed about, and once that stopped, the lesbianism stopped too. So, disappointment for the LGBT advocates. That doesn't make the "unnatural" argument one to fall back on again. We live in a broken world, so we can be certain that somewhere in Nature homosexuality exists – shucks, as this author notes, some animals eat their young, so Nature shouldn't be our guide for how things should be. And even the world knows that. So let's point them to where guidance can be found, with God, and in His Word. The secular liturgy of Goodnight Moon "Here’s the point for Christian parents. Goodnight Moon reads like a bedtime prayer for a reason. Brown’s experimental writing was part of a modernist movement to shape an alternative moral ecology for children.... The next time you read Goodnight Moon with your kids at bedtime, don’t stop at 'goodnight noises everywhere.' End your routine with bedtime prayers..." The Gray Havens' "Sirens" The lyrics are worth a read too! One taste of the sound From the Sirens in the water And I'm thinking I should get out The sharpest sword and suit of armor So I can be ready to strike But I pause, one more time One last taste of the sound Then I'll cut these Sirens down But as they sang, I forgot They were death, so I brought them my heart To be filled, and I followed them No trace could I find Of any joy the Sirens promised They had found a way with a lie To turn what's good and should be wanted Into what is highest above, all desires and loves Til’ my heart would obey Whatever it wants whatever it takes To feel alive and set free Only bound to the sea Where the sirens are leading me on Hold on, hold on, my heart You once were full and sang of grace Hold on, hold on, my heart You've tasted joy that's more than this Hold on, hold on, my heart You once were full and sang of grace Hold on, hold on, my heart You've tasted joy that's more than this...

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Bible labelled as hateful by government MP

Liberal MP Marc Miller serves as the chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. On October 30, 2025, he made these comments about the Bible during a committee meeting: “In Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Romans – there’s other passages – there is clear hatred towards, for example, homosexuals… I mean, clearly there are situations in these texts where these statements are hateful. They should not be used to invoke or be a defense.” The committee was studying Bill C-9, which the Liberal government is calling the Combatting Hate Act. When a government leader publicly calls passages of Scripture clearly hateful, it reveals something far deeper than a policy debate. It shows a government forgetting its duty before God. Civil authority is not ultimate. Scripture teaches that those in power are ministers of God, called to uphold justice and protect truth. From the very book Minister Miller referenced, Romans 13:1 reads, "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” And in Psalm 2:10-11, we are told, “Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.” John Sikkema, Legal Counsel and Director of Law and Policy for ARPA Canada, had the opportunity to present to the same committee a few hours after Miller’s comments. As Mr. Sikkema said in his statement before the committee: “….today in Canada, people are being accused, often by government officials, of promoting hatred simply for expressing moral or political views. Earlier this month, the British Columbia Legislature condemned ARPA as hateful... A B.C. government MLA even told a story… defamed and vilified Reformed Christians as criminal harassers, which seems like a way, frankly, to stir up hatred against this group, while at the same time accusing these Christians of promoting hatred for the views that they hold.” When leaders begin labelling parts of the Bible as dangerous or hateful, they place themselves above the very law that gives their authority any meaning. Our concern is not merely for Christians, but for Canada itself. A nation cannot claim to pursue justice while rejecting the standard of the One who defines it. Government serves under God’s authority, and it has a duty to ensure that His Word and those who live by it remain free to speak. This gets to the heart of Christian concerns about Bill C-9....

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"Your Turn!"

Inspire Christians to think, speak, and act for God’s glory Have you been inspired by a video to defend your faith or be in awe of God’s amazing creation? Has a podcast empowered you to improve your marriage or manage your finances better? And have articles in this or other magazines and websites helped you serve as a friend, elder, teacher, or mom? Almost every hour of the day we are being blessed directly, or indirectly, by godly resources that others have developed. Now it’s your turn! Reformed Perspective respectfully challenges you to turn your passion, creativity, story, and ideas into something that can bless others. A generous sponsor is offering $7,000 in cash prizes, and RP will platform some of the entries with our magazine, website, podcast, and social media channels so that they can bless tens of thousands of people. Perhaps you have training and education that would be a huge help to others, or you have experienced a trial and have learned lessons that may help others. Maybe you have a story to share to encourage or warn your siblings in Christ. This is your calling and opportunity to bless Christ’s church! Categories There will be the three main categories below, with each of them subdivided into YOUTH (under age 19) and ADULTS, resulting in 6 categories overall. VIDEO: make your message come alive! AUDIO: speak, or even sing, from your heart! WRITTEN: whether it is an article, comic, or maybe even a script, get it from your mind onto “paper”! Teachers and home-schooling parents, this could be a great way to challenge your students! $7,000 in cash prizes A generous donor has allowed us to offer: $1,000 for the winner of each of the 6 categories. $1,000 for the overall fan favorite. We will ask our readers to vote for their favorite in the May/June issue. The judging criteria is to inspire and equip your brothers and sisters to think, speak or act to God’s glory. Entry Criteria: Content must be original. You are welcome to make use of resources like books, friends, and AI to help you (but please credit sources when relevant). Entries must be faithful to God’s Word and bring glory to God. We welcome any topics that are suitable for a Christian audience. Mechanics, art, philosophy, theology, relationships, mission, sports, mental health – or anything else. After all, every square inch belongs to Christ. But we ask that submissions be focussed on inspiring your audience. Quality: must be good enough that it can be shared with our audience without us needing to edit or improve it (so, bounce it off friends and family first, and ask them to help you hone it – what could you do to make it as good as it can get?). Although you will keep the rights to your content, by entering the contest you give Reformed Perspective the right to publish it in the magazine if we decide to, and also on our social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.), and on our Real Talk podcast. Entries must be submitted through the form below. Deadline: February 28, 2026. Send it to us! {{Form-1763491067}}...

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