Micah Tyler’s “Praise The Lord”
It ain’t always easy following God, but His goodness is certain.
The daily battleground we often ignore in our therapy culture
“In his book on spiritual depression, the late Welsh minister, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, wrote:
‘Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?… The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself.’”
Common logical fallacies
Tackle one a night with your family to become familiar with the bad arguments that the world, and sometimes even fellow Christians, are using. Forewarned is forearmed!
IVF and the rise of intentionally single mothers
IVF has enabled both same-sex couples and single women to have children without a father, creating and celebrating a situation that would otherwise have been decried as abandonment.
And we should never forget what IVF has done to the millions of babies who have been abandoned to cold storage and the millions more that have been aborted in the selection process.
5 red flags to watch for in YA Christian romance fiction
It’s the books your girls will want to read. But how Christian is it? And how much of it is too much?
“Comparative advantage” – economics Christians need to know (4 min)
What’s this principle of “comparative advantage” and why is it so important to understand in the middle of our tariff wars?
As Jacob Clifford highlights, trade allows people and countries to make what they are best at – just as different people have different skills, different countries also have some kind of advantage in their skills, location, or resources that will equip them to produce some products better than other countries can.
When we do what we are best at, then we can trade with others for what they are best at producing. This makes everyone more productive and wealthier than if we all tried to make everything for ourselves. Just consider how productive you’d be if you had to do everything yourself, including cutting down and shaping the boards to make your home, manufacturing your fridge, growing your food, building your car, and more. You would likely starve while you were still at the shaping boards stage.
Thankfully, you can trade your labor (in whatever role you have) for all these things. So being able to trade freely makes you wealthier.
And being able to trade makes our neighbors wealthier, too. Trade enriches everyone! So if we are to love our neighbors (Mark 12:31), then we’ll want what’s best for them, including in a material sense. That’s why we won’t want to put unnecessary restrictions on trade… because it hurts both ourselves and our neighbors.
