Reformed Perspective
Assorted
- The Christian job description
- God gives rest: On the 4th Commandment
- How important is “nothing”?
- Saturday Selections – March 9, 2019
- Reformed Harmony: a new tool promotes friendship…and sometimes marriage
- Ready Christian answers to life’s deepest questions
- Tidbits – March 2019
- Maintaining the motivation of elders and deacons
- On tidying up with and without Marie Kondo
- The good lie? Calvin vs. Luther
- The Bible and Alcoholics Anonymous
- Tidbits – February 2019
- The Queen on our coins testifies to Canada’s Christian roots
- …but I have a couch
- Tidbits – January 2019
- Song of Songs (A Christine Farenhorst Christmas story)
- When should we unwrap presents?
- Santa Claus at Nicea
- Beyond Monopoly – They’ve taken the bored out of board games
- Tidbits – December 2018
- Wax on, wax off: the world’s increasingly shaky understanding of tolerance
- When we have to parent our parents: help and hope for caregivers
- Living out Lord’s Day 1: a Cuban story
- Tidbits – November 2018
- Is recreational marijuana sinful?
- Tidbits – October 2018
- Eve: the mother of all living
- C.S. Lewis on real happiness and real Christianity
- Stepping into the story: Hamlet with a happy ending?
- A history of Healthcare…and why Christians have done it different
- Tidbits – September 2018
- What are we to make of gambling?
- Which bits of the Bible would you walk around with?
- Communism’s ongoing influence
- Tidbits – August 2018
- On a wife deciding to leave her husband
- Report of a meeting which was never held
- “Did God answer her prayer?“
- Tidbits – July 2018
- Hull humanity
- That cloud of witnesses….
- Reflections on “12 ways your phone is changing you”
- Aging in hope!
- Tidbits – June 2018
- The conceited apple-branch: a Romans 12:3-8 fable?
- Go to the ant, you sluggard…
- Is the Proverbs 31 wife an unrealistic supermom?
- On being a Titus 2 young woman
- 10 QUOTES: On technology and the family
- Tidbits – May 2018
- “The Devil’s Delusion” and the baseless confidence of the certain atheist
- Older women have much to give
- G.K. Chesterton on the difference between reformers and deformers
- “Othercott” – like a boycott but better
- What my grandma taught me
- Older men still have a job to do
- “So what you’re saying is…”
- Seniors: Florida does not exist
- John Piper on debating moral issues in the public square
- To be known
- Tidbits – April 2018
- Why doesn’t the OT say more about what happens after death?
- On being separated
- Help wanted: Prophets
- What’s next? The growth of Statism in Canada
- Allies vs. cobelligerents: don’t mix them up!
- Election
- Tidbits – March 2018
- Is Jordan Peterson the champion we’ve been looking for?
- Tidbits – February 2018
- The gift of sleep: it’s good for what ails you
- A PLEA TO READ
- 4 reasons to remember your Creator in your youth
- “And behold, I come quickly” – the dying need to hear the gospel
- Afterward…
- It’s necessary: use words!
- Hospitality hacks for folks who want to be, but keep finding excuses not to be, hospitable
- Good habits help us minimize trouble…
- If only for this life we have hope in Christ…
- When gray hair meets green
- Tidbits – January 2018
- The Gift: an allegory of sorts
- “Yes, Virginia, there was a Santa Claus”
- MODERATION: Where beer and psalm-singing go hand in hand
- Finding the right words: use what you’ve received
- On the Truth, and the cost of lies
- One week in: Facebook isn’t for everyone
- The problem with “pan-millennialism”
- Truth requires you to love and love requires you to be truthful
- Jacobus Arminius: professed the confessions even as he opposed them
- “Did God actually say…?”
- The slippery slope is real
- On angels and guardian angels
- The Pursuit of Wisdom: do it ‘til you die
- The untimely death of Emmett Louis Till: The power of graphic pictures
- Too certain by half
- God wants young men to be brave, not crazy
- What should we think of withdrawals?
- Some cultures are better than others
- The End was near
- What does fleeing sin look like?
- Professor Peterson is not PC
- Choice words – a queen’s folly
- Call me Billy
- The cellphone stack
- What does God’s “favorite” Bible verse tell us?
- Is our curiosity controlling us, or are we controlling it?
- Overpopulation is a myth, and we should have known
- Manure into mattresses
- Am I a fanatic?
- Quotes on the single life
- Not all humility is humble
- Simply and truly
- What is Grace?
- Holding on to wisdom: What would a younger you tell you to do?
- A hill to die on
- Sliver Mustard’s journey
- “You too?” What friendship is, and why it’s so hard to find
- Worldviews and Dogviews: what are they?
- To appear before the Lord
- The Bible doesn’t have a lot say about ___________
- A crowd can make you crazy
- What to do when you don’t know what to do
- Love is…
- Here’s the problem with just closing your eyes during the sex scenes
- The “Force” behind bad statistics
- The definition of patience
- Did Adam have a belly button?
- Confirming what we’ve always confessed
Christian Education – Sports
Economics – Home Finances
Parenting
- Teaching boys to fight
- 3 picture books that tackle anxiety, anger, and failure
- A smartphone contract for our kids
- Parents: Understand that much depends on you
- J.C. Ryle on teaching our children to pray
- The Golden Rule: the biblical response to self-pity
- Is recreational marijuana sinful?
- 6 Duties of Parents
- Ignore your inner defense attorney!
- Just how bad is the teen anxiety epidemic?
- On reading together
- Three questions for you
- Fathers, fear, and self-interest
- What my grandma taught me
- Discipline or punishment: do your children know the difference?
- When you’re asked, “Do you spank your child?”
- 5 frank quotes from Jonathan McKee’s “Sex Matters”
- Should it be “I’m sorry” or “Please forgive me”?
- Gel-Pen faith
- Teaching small fries to take notes, sing psalms, and speak to God
- How mom and dad can fight Big Brother
- Parents: do you have the courage to be gentle?
- Spanking on trial: how to make a public defense
- Is Cleanliness next to Godliness?
- What’s the purpose of family devotions?
- Children’s games that mom & dad can play without going batty
- The high cost of fatherhood
- 21 things I learned living with teenagers
- “When you coming home, dad?”
- Parents, are you pushing or leading?
- 5 tips for family devotions with small children
- Raising readers: the surprising power of reading aloud
- Quantity, not quality: good parenting takes time
- One way to talk to your kids about God
- Chores are good for our kids, and the earlier the better
- Are our children leaders?
- Teaching your kid to appreciate broccoli
- “Daddy issues”
- A book for children, to help prevent sex abuse
- 13 quick thoughts on “Screen-Smart Parenting”
- There is more to life than being safe and legal
- Parenting: many approaches – only one set of guiding principles
- Why Reformed churches should be full of adopted children
- Fun music for your kids (that you might like too)
- The part about parenting I didn’t find in any parenting book
- Raising children who despise themselves
- Parenting the Internet Generation
- From explanations to dialogue, from monologues to questions
- The problem with explanations
- Five things I wish I had known… about being a father
- Gentleness: a gift to your family
- If you want to spank your child, don’t
- Spanking does have a place in Canada
- 4 for family movie night
- The definition of patience
- Marriable Men
Pro-life – Abortion
- Real progress: Canada is warming up to an abortion law
- Why men are superior to women – a pro-life analogy
- DIRECTION MATTERS: the difference between legal, decriminalized, and regulated abortion, & why we support gestational limits
- STAY ON MESSAGE: a lesson from the Chilliwack pro-life flag display
- Should all adoption records be unsealed? A pro-life perspective
- Don’t know? Don’t kill.
- A person’s a person, no matter how small-hearted (or not so) pro-lifers might be
- Margaret Sanger: Planned Parenthood’s apostle of eugenics
- ABILITY ≠ WORTH ….but the world thinks so, and sometimes we do too
- Don’t Argue the Exceptions: Beating bad arguments for Abortion and Transgenderism
- Investigating the Birth Control Pill
- Abraham Lincoln, on abortion
- People with Down Syndrome in “civilized” Denmark almost all exterminated
- Some pro-life arguments are not pro-life arguments
- Why pro-lifers should publicize, not mourn, the Morgentaler decision
- Does the birth control pill cause abortions?
- The Overton Window shows what speaking the unthinkable can do
- Does God require, or forbid, graphic pictures in the abortion debate?
- Abortion supporters don’t believe in equality
- Can a politician be personally, but not politically, pro-life?
- If the unborn are not our equals…
- Should one issue determine who we vote for?
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