Category: Recent Articles
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Being the ChurchA principled (and practical) guide to tithing
Twice every Sunday the offering plate comes your way. What do you do? Do you chip in whatever you have in your wallet, do you…
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In a NutshellTidbits – April 2025
Trying to have your cake and eat it too A carving on a Cambodian temple built around 800 years ago seems to depict a stegosaurus….
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InternetWill AI replace reading?
Empty libraries and human-less humans ***** Many new technologies are sold with the promise of freeing people from menial tasks. Dishwashers, dryers, tractors, and word…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Mar. 29, 2025
Propaganda techniques (10 minutes) This 1948 or 1949 movie highlights seven different propaganda techniques, and to be forewarned about them is to be forearmed. This…
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AssortedDon’t follow your heart
When it comes to finding true happiness, do the opposite of what culture says ***** Making the happiness crisis in America even worse, especially for…
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Recent ArticlesThe “Watchmaker argument”
Two hundred years ago a bishop, by the name of William Paley, wrote a book in which he used a watch to illustrate how clear…
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People we should knowWibrandis Rosenblatt: “Bride of the Reformation”
In Your presence there is fullness of joy (Psalm 16:9-11) ***** I can vividly recall how, as a child, I visited people with my father….
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EvangelismBeing ready to witness
Acts 26 shows it can be as simple as saying what you’ve seen ***** Our Lord calls us to share the gospel but often we…
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Pro-life – AdoptionConsidering adoption
God is concerned about orphans (Ex. 22:22, Deut. 14:29, Ps. 10:14,18, Ps. 68:5, Ps. 146:9, Prov. 23:10) and He wants us to care about them…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Mar. 15, 2025
House of David show is making things up Wretched TV’s Todd Friel doesn’t hold back on Amazon’s new biblically-based series about King David. His arguments…
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Being the ChurchBeing thrifty and finding hope
In his “science of happiness” class at Harvard Business School, Arthur Brooks teaches that of the five things you can do with money, four could…
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ContestCan you build it? Yes you can!!!!
Sometimes things go better than we could have hoped, to the point of being overwhelming. Our “Can You Build It?” contest not only proved to…
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Being the ChurchWise and Innocent
“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” – Matt. 10:16…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Mar. 8, 2025
5 signs you should consider seminary Is God calling you to be a minister? Here are 5 points worth considering. While this is Westminster making…
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Christian educationHelping students overcome a fear of failure
The goal of genuine learning isn’t to pass tests ***** Among the most common mental attitudes hindering the pursuit of a genuine education by young…
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AssortedHow to write
…for Reformed Perspective ***** Everyone has at least one article in them – I’m convinced that’s true. It doesn’t matter who I’m talking to, they…
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2025
C.S. Lewis on the danger of indulging in “outrage porn” The term “outrage porn” was coined by a New York Times writer, Tim Kreider to…
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AssortedLife in bloom: The gift of flowers
“Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Mar. 1, 2025
Why we can’t focus (12 min) This fellow is worried that moving from a text-based culture to a video-based one is leaving us all stupider…
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EconomicsTariffs are terrible economics: why Canada shouldn’t hit back
Free trade – free of barriers and restrictions – has, traditionally, been pretty exclusive to the Right side of the political spectrum. But now, with…
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Culture ClashesHow can everyone be wrong about the world?
Hans Rosling discovered that whether it’s world leaders or everyone else, we all share a tendency to overdramatize the state of the planet ***** How…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Feb. 22, 2025
My pretty pink tractor Tim Hawkins on a problem that I’m sure has happened to many a farmer. Mark Carney – the man who would…
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People we should knowChang Shen: grace to persevere
Like as the armèd knight Appointed to the field With Thy Word will I fight And faith shall be my shield. Anne Askew (1521-1546) *****…
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Being the ChurchAged saints can tell you what your peers don’t know or won’t say
In late 1785, the 26-year-old British Member of Parliament William Wilberforce secretly met with 61-year-old John Newton. Wilberforce had very recently encountered the grace of…
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Recent ArticlesA serious problem
God’s people should be confidently playful ***** As a mental health therapist, I once attended a workshop on developing and maintaining healthy attachments between parents…
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DatingA creative approach to boundaries in dating
Signing on the dotted line? (Gal. 5:16-25) ***** Several weeks ago, my fiancé and I sat down at a local restaurant with my aunt and…
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Adult non-fictionNecessary Endings
Finding the courage to let go in business, church, and family ***** Why did my dad’s tomatoes and cucumbers always flourish? I used to think…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Feb. 15, 2025
Charles Darwin’s birthday was Feb. 12, so for this edition we are marking that event by featuring a collection of very different rebuttals. Click on…
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AssortedThe peculiar blessings of Covid
God used even this evil for good ***** In the early spring of 2020, Christian pastors from across Alberta sat on a telephone townhall with…
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ParentingHave a child – change the world
In his best-selling book Atomic Habits, James Clear makes the case for committing to tiny changes in your life, for drastic change. “Here’s how the…
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AssortedMore time to pray
Martin and Christina Veenstra on retirement in your nineties ***** Little did Christina Veenstra know, more than six decades ago, that meeting her future husband,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Feb. 8, 2025
Monarch butterflies are freaky cool (7 min) We know that caterpillars become butterflies – two creatures in one! – but did you know that Monarch…
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Christian educationGrowth in independent schools and homeschooling
“The public school has become a counter-church. It is a powerful institution for the purpose of squeezing out of our children the worldview of the…
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Being the ChurchChristians don’t retire
Retirement is unbiblical. Before you think that I’m accusing everyone over the age of 65 of unbiblical behavior, let me lay out the case for…
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PornographyA church response is needed to stop the porn crisis
Parental controls are not enough ***** Over the past several years, I have spoken in dozens of Christian communities to thousands of students and parents…
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In a NutshellTidbits – February 2025
Are there little green men? While there seems no biblical reason to preclude finding simpler life on other planets – plants and even animals –…