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Saturday Selections – December 12, 2020

John Piper and Tedashii on the need for Christians to make war

Not everyone will love the musical genre, but it’s a good match to the message that we should not be complacent about our sins.

Endlessly twitterpated? What does real love look like?

“A TV drama recently set off my baloney-meter. A character was talking about how he knew he was still in love with his wife by the way his stomach still did flip-flops when she walked in. Hmm. Call me a cynic, or maybe just deprived of that level of marriage, but stay with me…”

The sexual revolution’s next frontier

In the hole created by parents relinquishing their God-given educational role, schools are being used to sexualize childhood.

Why the scientific consensus can be unreliable

If ten people, with no connections, in isolation from one another, agreed to the facts of a car accident, their consensus would give us good reason to trust what they are saying. But not all consensus is so trustworthy, because it is not so independently arrived. This article details, in Fidel Castro’s Cuba, how the Communist Party got overwhelming support at the ballot box each “election” but that was a coerced consensus due to limited choices, and fear.

When we hear of a consensus around evolution, it is more the second type of consensus than the first, with those who point out Darwin’s deficiencies risking their livelihood to do so. This is an article that rewards the effort invested.

How Christianity is the basis for rights, science, and civilization (10-min read)

Tim Keller is a mixed bag, but here he gives a fantastic review/summary of Tom Holland’s book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, making the case that it is God’s Truth that stands as the foundation for so much of what even the secular culture celebrates as good and right in the world.

Tim Challies on why his family didn’t do sleepovers (6 min)

While Challies doesn’ think there is any sort of biblical command against sleepovers, he explains why his family decided against them.

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Saturday Selections - December 5, 2020

Living clouds (5 min) How do they do it? Thousands of starlings, flying at speeds of 50 miles per hour, moving in such precision together that they look like living clouds! We can't control COVID (or much of anything else) "How quickly we went from the 'we acknowledge we can’t control this' of the UCSF panel of experts to the 'we absolutely can and will control this' of elected officials. The shift from 'most of us are going to get sick but let’s care for and protect the vulnerable' to 'everyone must avoid getting sick at all costs' is a significant one. Now, if anyone contracts COVID, it’s not because it’s a novel virus we don’t understand, but because someone failed. Practical atheists want control. When control is lost, someone is to blame." A less controversial way to reduce gun deaths? Guns are used to kill, but also to save lives too, so any time a government tries to impliment any form of gun control, it is controversial. But is there a way to reduce gun deaths that would be far less controversial? Blessed are the unoffendable This is an article that will greatly help a great deal of us. 5 biggest little ways to improve your marriage This post is based on a 1992 book, very popular in Christians circles, called The 5 Love Languages, which proposed that there are 5 different ways that people like to be loved and like to express love. While this isn't an idea that should be put on par with biblical revelation, it does have a common-sense appeal: we all know that some folks really like gifts no matter how small, and others who respond to touch, and some who best appreciate words of encouragement. And the Golden Rule, as spelled out in Matthew 7:12, is a biblical grounding for the general underlying principle that just as we would like people to show affection for us in the way we best like to receive it, we should offer the same consideration in how we express love. Thomas Sowell on the difference between conservatives and liberals (4 minutes) While Sowell is not making a specifically Christian argument here, his definition of the conservative understanding – that Man is intrinsically flawed – lines up with what the Bible says about our fallen nature. He also speaks to the very biblical notion (Prov 27:14) that good intentions are not enough, and that utopia is an impossible ideal (so long as we on this side of heaven). That last point might be misunderstood as being apathetic, or an uncaring response to evil, as if he is saying "We can't do anything, so why bother!" But his point is, we can do many things, but we can't do everything, so choices need to be made. And possible good achieved is better than impossible good intended. (To clarify the conservative and liberal labels used here don't reference Canada's political parties, though the Liberal Party does largely align with Liberal values as Thomas Sowell defines them.) ...