Category: Recent Articles
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Parenting
Matrescence: the process of becoming a mother
I was deeply ashamed. “I just want to go back to before,” I said to my husband, burying my face in his shoulder. I’d been so excited for this baby and now that she was here, I’d never felt so…
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Christian education – SportsWinning at all costs?
**** I recently had the opportunity to substitute teach a high school physical education class. Not knowing a single one of the students, I divided…
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PornographyPorn addiction isn’t just a guy thing
“… but you’re a girl!?” If I had a dollar for every time I heard that given the context that is about to follow, I’d…
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HistoryQuestioning daycare and preschool: how young is too young?
In this twenty-first century, more and more children are being relegated to daycare or other institutions that look after them for a great many hours…
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Recent ArticlesWhy should we study Scripture together?
It’s too easy to take for granted the blessings God has heaped on us, so let’s stop for a moment and think about several of…
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Being the ChurchSingleness: on being active and included in the body of Christ
Singleness. I often think there should be some kind of thunderclap after that word. This word and what it entails has caused unnumbered tears from…
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Being the ChurchThe Christian job description
When I was a young seminary student, I had to read an extensive commentary by a Dutch theologian. I had never studied Dutch writing before,…
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Recent ArticlesGod gives rest: On the 4th Commandment
Years ago I blew my first shot at university. I goofed off, got lousy grades, and ending up with a one-year academic suspension. When I…
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Being the ChurchMaintaining the motivation of elders and deacons
The following is a rough transcript of Rev. Moesker’s 45-minute presentation above. **** I’ve been asked to speak here and I was given some suggested…
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People we should knowEve: the mother of all living
“…she said: ‘God has appointed for me another child…’” – Genesis 4:25 How sad the reflections. Hunched down in front of her tent, she stared…
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AssortedYour RP connection for fun kid content!
What you’ll find here are crafts, coloring pages, a challenge or two, and even a prayer journal, all of them intended for your littles. These…
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PoliticsCommunism’s ongoing influence
The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and many thought that Communism was over and done with. But even today its influence can still be felt,…
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Recent ArticlesPAUL vs. JAMES? Dealing with Bible difficulties
“For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.” – Paul, writing in Romans 3:28 “You see that a…
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Being the ChurchOn being a Titus 2 young woman
Older women [must] train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of…
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Recent ArticlesDealing with the Bible’s troubling texts
Whether it’s passages about slavery, or gender roles, or the imprecatory Psalms, some sections of Scripture make Christians uncomfortable. God’s command to kill all the…
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Being the ChurchOlder women have much to give
Our church has a sizable number of older women. Why? What task would the Lord give these sisters in His church? Like the older men,…
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AssortedOn being separated
“For this reason the Father loves Me because I lay down my life in order that I may take it up again. No one has…
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Recent ArticlesThe best news ever!
“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:32-43) **** Three people were taken that day to a hill…
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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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EvangelismHelp wanted: Prophets
**** God’s Word cuts. We acknowledge that is “living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword” (Heb. 4:12). It may even be that it’s because…
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Evangelism“And behold, I come quickly” – the dying need to hear the gospel
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous, let…
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Recent ArticlesThe transgender debate isn’t about washrooms
Here’s the scenario: there’s a fellow in front of you wearing a little black dress. And he wants to know your thoughts on the transgender…
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PornographyFIGHT! A message from the most porn-riddled country in the world
In 2016, Google pronounced the country where I pastor, Papua New Guinea (PNG), the most porn-riddled country in the world. This “fact” was established by the…
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InternetOne week in: Facebook isn’t for everyone
It’s been nearly a full week since I deleted my Facebook account. My thoughts so far? Why didn’t I do this before?!? I made my…
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People we should knowJacobus Arminius: professed the confessions even as he opposed them
The baby, baptized Jacob Harmenszoon, lay contentedly in his mother’s arms. Warmth, food and love sheltered his small physical being. Even though his father was…
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Recent Articles3 problems with transgender surgeries
This summer Pullman Regional Hospital in eastern Washington State announced they might offer transgender surgeries and asked the public for feedback. They got hundreds of…
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Recent ArticlesTransgenderism 101: Share the truth with compassion
Transgenderism is the latest political cause du jour, dominating media headlines, saturating academic deliberation, the subject of new laws and radical educational policies across the…
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Culture ClashesOverpopulation is a myth, and we should have known
While overpopulation fears aren’t causing the same panic they once did, this bogeyman hasn’t disappeared entirely. The United Nations still has their Population Fund, advising…
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PornographyIs Porn more like heroin, or driving a car?
In recent weeks, I’ve come across what seems like a multitude of articles on the subject of pornography, especially articles focused on the fact that…
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Recent ArticlesNot all humility is humble
Sir John Marks Templeton (1912-2008) is best known as the creator of the Templeton Growth Fund, an investment fund established in 1954, which made him…
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HumorSimply and truly
There once was a man whose parents had given him the highly unusual name of “Amazing” when he was born. They gave him the name…
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Recent ArticlesAn open letter to Glenn Beck on the difference between Mormons and Christians
I know some people who called themselves freedom-loving capitalists. But they also support government bailouts, high tariffs to block imports, supply management, and whenever the…
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AssortedTo appear before the Lord
A young lawyer had a dream. He found himself one morning before a judge at court in a T-shirt and crumpled shorts. The judge asked…
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Media biasDon’t watch the news, read it!
This first appeared in Reformed Perspective in 2000, and yet the thesis of this article is just as relevant for today’s Internet Age, as entertainment is an…
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Media biasDon’t read the news, read a book!
No, you’re not paranoid, the media really is out to get Christians. In his book How the News Makes Us Dumb, C. John Sommerville argues that…
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Recent ArticlesYou think feelings can redefine reality? What if I told you I feel like they don’t?
There’s a special sort of tyranny at work these days – it is the sort that not only ignore reality itself, but demands that everyone…
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Recent ArticlesA is A…except when it wants to be S?
The transsexual debate and the death of logic “Hi A. It is A, isn’t it? I hardly recognized you there. It’s B. Remember me? How…