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Apologetics 101The don’t and do’s of answering fools
In Proverbs 26:4-5 God says we shouldn’t argue with fools…except when we should. Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 9, 2022
Great moments in unintended consequences (4 min) When governments don’t have even a basic understanding of economics, many unintended consequences can result. What I learned…
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Human RightsA Christian perspective on freedom of speech
This was first published in the June 2010 issue To say American author and columnist Ann Coulter is “outspoken” is rather like saying Solomon was…
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Adult biographiesPrairie Lion: The Life & Times of Ted Byfield
by Jonathon Van Maren 2022 / 256 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give God works in history through people, some of whom have a particularly significant impact. In Canada,…
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Book ReviewsThe Revolt: a novel in Wycliffe’s England
by Douglas Bond 269 pages / 2016 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I was never a fan of Church history in school, but I’ve come to realize that…
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Parenting“Mom, where’s my toothbrush?” 9 packing tips for before and during the trip
The well-circulated belief that “moms are supposed to know where everything is at every given moment” was humorously illustrated for me two years ago when…
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Documentary180: from pro-choice to pro-life in minutes
Documentary 2011, 33 minutes Rating: 7/10 The trailer for 180 showed people being interviewed on the street declaring their support for “a woman’s right to choose.”…
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Pro-life – AbortionPro-life memes and cartoons to share
Through the years Reformed Perspective has created a number of pro-life comics and memes, and this is where we are going to collect them, so that they…
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Adult non-fictionThe Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place
by Andy Crouch 2017/ 220 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Did you just binge multiple seasons of that show everyone is talking about over the weekend? Do…
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MarriageThe surprising secrets of highly happy marriages
What research and the Bible say about the best marriages **** Marriage is meant to mirror Christ and the church. One can scarcely imagine a…
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AssortedTruth requires you to love and love requires you to be truthful
Contrary to popular opinion, love and truth don’t stand in opposition to one another. In fact, you can’t really have one without the other. To…
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DocumentaryWhat is a Woman?
Documentary 2022 / 95 minutes Rating: 9 /10 What is a woman? That’s the question that confounded US Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson earlier…
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Internet20 Scriptures to guide our online speech
May God give us the humility to recognize how our online speech may be out of step with his calling on our lives ***** Scripture…
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InternetParents, you are your child’s best protection from online horrors
“You cannot raise your children as your parents raised you, because your parents raised you for a world that no longer exists.” – Author unknown…
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Parenting8 tips for traveling with the family
My favorite travel anecdote came from Reader’s Digest years ago. An older woman felt overwhelmed while packing to go to Florida with her husband. She…
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Media biasMisleading us for years: looking back at bias in the US and Canada
Editor’s note: for those who might have thought the radical bias of today’s mainstream press media was only a very recent thing, this 2004 blast…
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DocumentaryFree film: The God Who Speaks
Documentary 2018 / 92 minutes Rating: 9/10 All of us at times have wondered what it would be like if God spoke to us directly,…
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Apologetics 10110 tales to help us clear away transgender confusion
We live in a time when the obvious is not so. How exactly can we explain to someone who doesn’t get it, that saying you’re…
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ParentingDon’t let the culture train up your children in the way they should go
Our family loves to watch the Olympics. As we’ve watched the last several years, we’ve been noticing how different each Olympics has been even from…
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Pro-life – AbortionAbraham Lincoln, on abortion
How would Abraham Lincoln have addressed the biggest moral issue of our time? We don’t have to wonder. While President Lincoln may not have spoken…
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DocumentaryLiving Waters
Documentary 69 minutes / 2015 Rating 8/10 This is one part nature documentary and one part evolutionary takedown. Illustra Media understands that a great way…
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EvangelismWhen it comes to witnessing, are we just too impatient?
How long would you patiently wait for your morning coffee? Five minutes? Would you even last that long? What if you first had to manually…
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Being the ChurchGod wants young men to be brave, not crazy
Bravery, like most things in life, is learned. To develop it, one must practice. However, it is the very rare young man who wants to…
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Recent ArticlesNeither poverty nor riches? Making God our priority in prayer
People prefer to be rich rather than poor. It’s therefore striking that the Bible gives us a record of this prayer in Prov. 30:8: …give…
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Dying WellComfort facing death
Do you ever think about your own death? Poets may come up with flowery words and philosophers may make scholarly statements that ring hollow when…
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Being the ChurchQuotes on the single life
Singles are not second “…the nuclear family should not be the center of church life. Rather, the family of God is the center…. It is the…
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EvangelismWhy we don’t evangelize and why we must
If there is a time to be silent, there is also a time to speak (Eccl. 3:7). If the gospel is the Good News entrusted…
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Recent ArticlesRepent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out
New Year’s resolutions – we all make them and then we all break them. Perhaps praying the first part of the Proverbs 30:8 prayer is…
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Being the ChurchA more generous ministry of mercy?
The Lord loves his church and gave her the gift of the ministry of mercy. But is this blessed ministry as active as it can…
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EvangelismBeing salt and light
Matthew 5:13-16 means hiding and fitting in aren’t options ***** Two thousand years after Jesus warned us against losing our savor or hiding our light…
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AssortedThere’s an app for that!
Reformed Perspective‘s app can be downloaded for Apple and Android devices by clicking on the appropriate button below. Get it on your phone now to…
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Being the ChurchImproving the elders’ home visits
It is October and as “home visit season” ramps up, my thoughts turn to how home visits are being conducted and whether our methods serve…
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HomosexualityChristians and same-sex attraction
I am a Christian. I am still a sinner. We could add a whole host of other sentences to describe me, too, but these two…
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HumorAre you a transkindophobe?
Doctor Clive Gledhill looked down at his watch – 4:30. Only half an hour until the surgery shut and then he could head off home…
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AnimatedThe Gruffalo
Animated / Family 27 min / 2009 Rating: 8/10 How can a mouse meet up with a hungry fox, snake, and owl, and live to…
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Recent ArticlesThe ethical issue of transsexuality
Editor’s note: though this is 25 years old, it is just as relevant today as when it was written. A correspondent recently requested that I…