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Saturday Selections – April 16, 2022

Jamie Soles’ new rendition of Psalm 94 (6 min)

Jamies Soles might be best known for his children’s albums, but his new rendition of Psalm 94 is for older voices. As he notes, “Psalm 94 is particularly suited for times when lands regard the murder of the unborn as a sacrament. Sing this, church.”

When your kids say sorry badly

How many times has one of your kids said “Sorry” and totally not been sorry? And how many times have you done it? As this great article outlines, the reason it’s not genuine is that repentance is a bit of a bigger thing than saying the right words. This will be a big help for parents who are trying to teach their children what it means to repent (and forgive). It’s a two-part article, with the first available by clicking the title above, and the second available here.

Why are Christian musicians “deconstructing” their faith? (10-min read)

Recently, we’ve seen a number of Christian celebrity musicians “deconstructing” their former faith – why is it happening? Brett McCracken wonders if it might be the shaky foundation their faith was built on:

“Is your Christianity contingent on anything other than Christ? Being liked? Being comfortable? Being in power? Being happy? Being right? If so, consider that all of those foundations are like shifting sand, and you are the foolish builder of Matthew 7:26–27.”

Bible supports abortion? (10-min read)

A text in Exodus is used by abortion supporters to justify the killing of the unborn – they claim it is a modern mistranslation of this text by pro-lifers that obscures their argument. But as this article explains, digging deeper only undermines their case for abortion.

Can you have human dignity without Christianity? 

Short answer, no. This article offers a longer answer.

The battle for 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming is lost… so what’s next?

Even if we presume that the 1.5-Celsius target was a good goal, the very people pushing it are providing the data that shows it to be impossible to achieve. So what next? Might a focus on adaptation be the wiser approach?

“…human adaptation to the climate has been the norm over the past century, with climate-related deaths declining globally by more than 90 percent despite a quadrupling of the world’s population.”

What do CRT, Cultural Marxism, Marxism, and LGBTQIA2S+ have in common? (10 min)

These four ideologies all operate on the notion that society is divided between oppressor and oppressed, and that oppressors are identified, not by their behavior – not by actual oppressing – but simply if they are part of a group deemed oppressor…like white “cisgender” Christians. With this new understanding of sin comes a new means of “salvation”: oppressors can’t repent profusely enough to ever be forgiven (you can’t wash away your whiteness), but your guilt can be washed away if you become a part of the oppressed by “identifying” as something in the LGBTQIA2S+ grouping.

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Saturday Selections – April 9, 2022

The grounds of our assurance (3 min) D.A. Carson on how it is not the intensity of our faith that assures our salvation, but the object of our faith, the sacrifice of Jesus, the blood of the Lamb! Prebiotic soup made life? But it can't even make muffins! Evolutionary creed says life started in some prebiotic soup somewhere. What ingredients made up this soup? They aren't so sure... just that the something included was all that was needed. How can we expose this for the nonsense it is? Paul Nelson proposes prebiotic soup as a solution for the origin of something much simpler than life: muffins. That muffins could come about on their own is, of course, ridiculous, and that's the point: "as has been shown time and time again, undirected chemistry is hostile to life." How to tell someone they're wrong There is a time and place when we will have to tell someone they are wrong, so how can we best do so? In defense of stigma The world says that critiquing other people's choices is unloving. But that pretends that there are no better or worse choices. Meanwhile Christian love, "rooted in God’s love for us, includes healthy stigma and never pretends there are no consequences for our choices." Problems with the NRSV translation While many may have fond memories of the RSV, here's a reason not to try out the NRSV. A hymn written in 5 minutes A beautiful rendition of this classic hymn – for the story behind the hymn, click the link above. ...