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Theology#4: the forgotten commandment?
In Celebrating the Sabbath pastor Bruce Ray warns that there are two ways to fall off the horse when it comes to Sunday observance: legalism…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 4, 2019
The 16 most amazing nests built by birds The amazing tailorbird crafts camouflage for its nest by using grass or spider silk as thread, and…
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NewsSI’s swimsuit edition: from barely-there to burkinis
The annual Sports Illustrated (SI) Swimsuit Edition is best known for the next-to-nothing that models wear. So why would this year’s issue feature a model who’s…
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In a NutshellTidbits – May 2019
The world’s love hurts In a presentation by Jonathon Van Maren on euthanasia and assisted suicide the pro-life apologist repeatedly cited Proverbs 12:10b “…the tender…
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DramaGosnell: the trial of America’s biggest serial killer
Drama 2018 / 93 minutes RATING: 8/10 “Are you going to be the first prosecutor in American history to charge an abortion doctor with murder?”…
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NewsDonald Trump, the pro-life rabble-rouser?
In April the president of the United States made headlines for a movie he didn’t watch, and didn’t comment on. So what was all the…
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Saturday Selections – April 27, 2019
Real men exercise David Murray’s Christian Man Academy offers men, young and old, straightforward advice on what it means to be a godly man. And in…
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ReligionTalking to your neighbor about Islam
Islam spawns violent terrorism, and yet lots of Muslims aren’t violent. So how does that make sense? And if we can’t make sense of it…
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Church historyRahab the whore…mother of Christ
In the house where one pays for love there arrived two young customers who had a different kind of business on their minds. They were engaged in…
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Adult non-fictionOn the proper role of Government (and the footnoted Belgic Confession article 36)
Anyone who has ever studied the Belgic Confession, even on a superficial level, is aware of an oddity in article 36. This is the only…
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AssortedRemembering the head nurse and other people
Hope deferred, Proverbs 13:12 says, makes the heart sick. There are none who know this better than those who have hoped for a child month…
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Church historyRome’s Catacombs art was created to encourage fellow Christians
Imagine a vast, underground series of zigzagging passageways covering an area several miles in length, 590 acres in size. Ponder the amount of work that…
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Saturday Selections – April 20, 2019
Preferred pronouns or jail? This is American but has ready application for most other Western nations. Raising motivated kids (20 minutes) In this first installment of…
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HistoryCharles Darwin’s grave mistake
One hundred and thirty-seven years ago, on April 19, 1882, a seventy-three-year-old man died at home in his bed. He was surrounded by his wife…
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MagazineMar/Apr 2019 issue
WHAT’S INSIDE: Are we “blessed” or “privileged”? / Maintaining the motivation of officebearers / On tidying up with Marie Kondo / Online tool promotes friendship…and…
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AssortedCome now, let us reason together
They say that the optimist sees the glass half full, the pessimist sees the glass half empty, and that the alchemist sees the glass completely…
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Adult fictionLord Foulgrin’s and Screwtape’s letters: why you should read this devilish correspondence
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis 1942 / 200 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Lord Foulgrin’s Letters by Randy Alcorn 2001 / 208 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Normally,…
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Book ReviewsThe Giver (the graphic novel adaptation)
by Lois Lowry adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell 2019 / 176 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give It’s a hundred or so years in the future. War…
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Saturday Selections – April 13, 2019
Is it a sin to be angry with God? (2 min) R.C. Sproul gives a clear answer to this question. The 8 deadly sins of…
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Being the ChurchSingleness: on being active and included in the body of Christ
Singleness. I often think there should be some kind of thunderclap after that word. This word and what it entails has caused unnumbered tears from…
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NewsWhy haven’t we heard from ET?
Some 70 years ago physicist Enrico Fermi looked up at the stars and wondered where everyone was at. With billions of galaxies, each with billions…
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RP AppThe ordinary is extraordinary: Dr. Gordon Wilson at Creation Weekend 2018
During the Creation Science Association of Alberta’s Creation Weekend 2018, Dr. Gordon Wilson was the feature speaker, giving three lectures. This is an account of…
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Saturday Selections – April 6, 2019
5 ways dads can encourage our daughters This isn’t all that long but it’s worth reading through slowly and considering how to put these into…
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NewsMale rapper “breaks” women’s weightlifting record
For a world increasingly confused about gender, February was an illuminating month with not one, but two well-publicized examples of how it is God, and…
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NewsCareer over kids: South Korean women aren’t having babies
A new report has South Korea population beginning to decline in just ten years’ time. Statistics Korea reported in late February that the country’s fertility…
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In a NutshellTidbits – April 2019
Strong men can laugh “Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.” – G.K. Chesterton An iPhone Hack to Try “Two…
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NewsBad news for PP is good news for unborn babies!
If something makes Planned Parenthood sad, then it’s likely there’s something for the unborn and their advocates to celebrate. That was certainly true when the…
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Saturday Selections – Mar. 30, 2019
Marijuana increases the risk of psychosis Marijuana is often presented as a near harmless indulgence. But a recent study finds that daily use increases the…
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Apologetics 101Atheists can’t explain evil
Given an atheistic or even an agnostic starting point, how can someone be outraged by evil? Without God, being outraged over the presence of evil…
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AssortedThe destiny hermeneutic
**** What in the world is a hermeneutic? You might be familiar with the term if you took any classes at a seminary or if…
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PoliticsEven the world should agree…Christians activism is good for democracy
Many among the Left, and even some on the right would like Christians to just stay out of politics. These are the sort who will…
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Adult non-fictionThe Genesis Account: A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1-11
by Jonathan Sarfati 786 pages / 2015 Outside of sermon preparation, it is not often that I read a commentary from front to back. If…
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Saturday Selections – March 23, 2019
#1 reason & #2 reason you shouldn’t worry about global warming In reason #1, Del Tackett and Dr. Larry Vardiman discuss how, when you understand…
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Culture ClashesBruce Jenner & Micklewhite: Adult problems lurk amongst the picture books
It was a beautiful day. The temperature had soared to eighty degrees plus and one of our daughters and four of our grandchildren were over…
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Being the ChurchThe Christian job description
When I was a young seminary student, I had to read an extensive commentary by a Dutch theologian. I had never studied Dutch writing before,…
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Book lists3 provocative, powerful, PG-rated, dystopian novels
The best dystopian books warn us of an undesirable future that seems far too likely for our peace of mind. The most famous examples are 1984…
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MarriageA careful look at the issue of birth control
Children: a calling and a blessing **** God calls the Reformed husband and wife to bear children. Just as marriage is a creation ordinance, so…
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Christian educationDo what the guru says? Public schools are spiritual too.
If I’ve ever wondered why we spend so much effort on our Christian education, it’s become clearer recently, since I’ve been doing some substitute teaching…
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Saturday Selections – March 16, 2019
Turning pro-choicers into pro-lifers in seconds? (2 min) Ray Comfort has another 30-minute pro-life film, coming out on May 9. It will be freely available…
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Adult fictionThe Man in the Dark
by Douglas Wilson 258 pages / 2019 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Some books only merit a quick read, others should be slowly savored, and a select few are…
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Recent ArticlesGod gives rest: On the 4th Commandment
Years ago I blew my first shot at university. I goofed off, got lousy grades, and ending up with a one-year academic suspension. When I…
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AssortedHow important is “nothing”?
My Grandmother found me in the pantry of her house and demanded, “What are you doing?” My quick response was nothing. “Oh, you must have…
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Saturday Selections – March 9, 2019
How a bird is built (5 minutes) The creation of a bird is “an elaborate dance, it’s like a ballet taking place on a stage…
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DatingReformed Harmony: a new tool promotes friendship…and sometimes marriage
“We’ll love you until somebody else does.” This light-hearted, rather amusing slogan belongs to the Facebook phenomenon known as Reformed Harmony (hereafter RH). It is…
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Pro-life – AbortionReal progress: Canada is warming up to an abortion law
In October of 2011, Reformed Perspective published an article I wrote called “Saving some is not a compromise – the case for advancing abortion legislation one step…
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2019
Chesterton on whether love is blind The world tells us that we shouldn’t try to change those we love, that if we really love them…
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Saturday Selections – Mar. 2, 2019
The Kara Tippets documentary is coming soon When an regular Christian mom was diagnosised with terminal cancer, she decided to share what she was learning…
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Apologetics 101The JFK assassination and apologetics: the facts don’t speak for themselves
Movie director, Oliver Stone, unleashed a Pandora’s Box at the box-office in 1991 with the release of his controversial film, JFK. The movie, which was a…
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Being the ChurchMaintaining the motivation of elders and deacons
The following is a rough transcript of Rev. Moesker’s 45-minute presentation above. **** I’ve been asked to speak here and I was given some suggested…
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Articles – BooksWhy is dystopian fiction worth reading?
In dystopian fiction we get a glimpse at some sort of looming, foreboding future: maybe it’s humans devolving into separate castes (H.G. Wells’ Time Machine),…
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Saturday Selections – Feb. 23, 2019
Doing Jordan Peterson one better Jordan Peterson has inspired many a young man struggling with aimlessness. But Peterson isn’t Christian, so his answers can…
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MusicWhy so much Rap is Reformed
Evangelist Ray Comfort once said of Rap, “I love hearing it…end.” He’s not alone. Many Christians don’t think much of Rap, partly because as musical…
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ParentingTeaching boys to fight
Boys today are no longer expected to become warriors as a rite of passage to manhood. And that’s a good thing; I’m grateful that my…
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AssortedOn tidying up with and without Marie Kondo
Marie Kondo has been famous in Japan for almost a decade, but only gained fame in North America in 2014 when an English translation of…
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InternetDo we “like” sin?
Welcome to the Information Age. With apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, we now have a window into the lives of our friends, family, acquaintances…
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MagazineJan/Feb 2019 issue
WHAT’S INSIDE: Teaching our boys to fight / Smartphone contract for our kids / “Interview” with Francis Schaeffer / $33 minimum wage? / A case for…
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Saturday Selections – Feb. 16, 2019
The Top 10 Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution (20-minute read) This is a long but fascinating introduction to the enormous problems with evolutionary…
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AssortedThe Bible and Alcoholics Anonymous
The following is a transcript of a Feb. 21, 2016 Truth in Love podcast produced by the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC) and used here…
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DocumentaryIrreplaceable – What is family?
Documentary 104 min / 2015 RATING: 8/10 Everyone knows something is wrong with the family these days. But what? For this Focus on the Family…
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In a NutshellTidbits – February 2019
Satire, impactful satire Turnabout is fair play Rebutting a secular argument can be as simple as applying its logic more broadly. Samuel Sey (@SlowToWrite), a…
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News
Saturday Selections – Feb. 9, 2019
Unplanned trailer This one looks interesting: Unplanned is the true story how Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson ended up defending the unborn. It’ll be in…
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Adult non-fictionAn interview (of sorts) with “Gay Girl, Good God” author Jackie Hill Perry
Jackie Hill Perry is an American poet and recording artist on the Humble Beast label. Married to Preston, she is the mother of two children….
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HumorWhy men are superior to women – a pro-life analogy
What follows is the text of a brochure that was delivered to more than 20,000 houses in Edmonton, Alberta during an election campaign about 15…
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Children’s non-fictionShooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914
by John Hendrix 40 pages / 2014 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I was raised with stories of the Dutch Resistance and the Canadian liberators fighting against the…
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Church historyThe Queen on our coins testifies to Canada’s Christian roots
If you look at the back of any Canadian coin you will see an image of Queen Elizabeth II. Someone might consider that to be…
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News
Saturday Selections – Feb. 2, 2019
New government regulations shut down church program feeding the homeless Everyone understands that because government laws impact thousands and even millions, the government won’t be able…
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NewsThe leading cause of death in the world
The leading cause of death in 2018 was not heart disease or stroke or AIDS or cancer or traffic accidents. In a Dec. 31starticle, Brietbart.com’s…
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Children’s picture booksGod made Me and You: Celebrating God’s design for ethnic diversity
by Shai Line illustrated by Trish Mahoney 32 pages / 2018 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Reformed rapper Shai Linne has written a children’s book about racism and God’s…
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EconomicsThe $33/hr minimum wage?
As of January 1, the minimum wage in New York City was boosted to $15 an hour, a more than doubling of the $7.25 minimum…
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 26, 2019
For C.S. Lewis geeks only A new introduction to The Screwtape Letters has been found, and it turns out this manuscript didn’t first fall into Lewis’s hands, but…
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Apologetics 101Abortionist: “God performs way more abortions than I do…”
In a Dec. 29 tweet abortionist Leah Torres went viral by claiming: “God performs way more abortions than I do…” While pro-lifers were quick to…
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News26 richest people own as much as the world’s poorest 3.75 billion
The 26 richest people on the planet hold as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the world’s population. So says the Oxfam Inequality Report…
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HumorBased on a true story
“Um, excuse me?” I am kneeling next to a newly planted row of tomato starts and pulling weeds when I hear a woman’s voice from…
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Children’s picture books3 picture books that tackle anxiety, anger, and failure
Children get anxious. And angry. And they can get frustrated when they fail. As adults, we often struggle with these same emotions, and sometimes we…
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Saturday Selections – January 19
Defending the unborn can be as simple as asking the other side to explain themselves Marie Kondo and her “life-changing magic” Marie Kondo and…
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ParentingA smartphone contract for our kids
The ““Lights at Stewart’s Place” Facebook page is normally about the Stewart family’s incredible Christmas light display. This past December they turned their whole house…
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TheologyAnger is not your friend
Anger: sometimes it just feels right. Anger is happy to assume its place as your advocate, your defense against unfair actions. And we are all too…
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Media biasProverbs 18:17: the antidote to Fake News
In the era of, not so much fake, but exaggerated, partisan, and selectively reported news, how can we discern the truth of a matter? God…
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NewsWho do you want to know better?
In a holiday ad (for Spanish speakers) the furniture giant IKEA gathered several families, seating each clan around a large table where a holiday feast…
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Saturday Selections – Jan. 12, 2019
Parents, should we pay our children to do their chores and homework? This isn’t a specifically Christian article, but it makes a point worth considering….
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Adult non-fictionCalvin’s Magnum Opus: a review of “Institutes of the Christian Religion”
A “magnum opus” is an author’s greatest work. When it comes to John Calvin his Institutes of the Christian Religion is one of the classics of Protestant…
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Adult non-fictionCalvin’s Institutes: Which edition should you read?
John Calvin published five different Latin editions of his Institutes, expanding on it with each new edition. The 1536 edition was just 6 chapters long,…
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People we should knowJonathan Edwards: The pastor who packed them in the pews while preaching the wrath of God
Much like today, during the early colonial years in America, preachers rarely spoke about the wrath of God – this did not seem the type…
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In a NutshellTidbits – January 2019
Why did the _____ cross the road? One of the wonderful things about children is that they are a new audience. Dads, they haven’t heard…
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Children’s picture booksDance at Grandpa’s
by Laura Ingalls Wilder illustrated by Renée Graef 33 pages / 1994 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give I’d expect most everyone has heard of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on…
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News
Saturday Selections – Jan. 5, 2019
Is our galaxy in the center of many others? This is a tentative finding that the Institute for Creation Research urges Christians to hold onto…
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NewsMost overlooked articles of 2018
We’ve previously shared a Top-10 list of RP’s most popular posts of 2018. While every article on that list was fantastic, not every fantastic article was…
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Adult non-fictionThoughts on Deepak Reju’s “She’s got the wrong guy”
Sometimes a pointed comment sticks with you for years. A decade back, a dad of two unmarried mid-twenties daughters exclaimed in exasperation, “I really don’t…
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Church historyMacarius: great works vs. grace
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God – not because…
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ParentingParents: Understand that much depends on you
In this modernized excerpt, from his book “Duties for Parents” J.C. Ryle points to the enormous role God has given parents in shaping our children…
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Saturday Selections – Dec. 29, 2018
Mutations show devolution, not evolution (3 min) Beneficial mutations do happen, but they happen via a loss of information. And such information-losing mutations offer no explanation for…
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Adult non-fictionA call for Christian journalists: an interview (of sorts) with Marvin Olasky
Marvin Olasky has been many things – the Editor-in-Chief of World magazine, a journalism professor, the author of more than 20 books, and a baseball…
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Adult non-fictionBeing a witness: an interview (of sorts) with Francis Schaeffer
Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984) has long since been retired from his earthly duties, but the Presbyterian pastor, philosopher, and apologist was still up for an interview…
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People we should knowPieter Jongeling (1909-1985): husband, father, Nazi-fighter, prisoner, Member of Parliament, children’s author…and Reformed journalist
When one writes about Reformed journalism one inevitably thinks about the sort of journalism that for so many years published newspapers and weekly papers in…
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DocumentaryCONNECT: Real help for parenting kids in a social media world
Documentary 70 minutes / 2018 RATING: 8/10 Connect offers “real help for parenting kids in a social media world” and the host, Kirk Cameron, starts things…
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Saturday Selections – Dec. 22, 2018
Young love: what are you waiting for? When we get married isn’t always under our control. But there is a trend in the world, and…
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NewsMiss Universe pageant decides gender is only skin deep
The annual Miss Universe beauty contest was held this past Sunday, and while the winner was Miss Philippines, most of the attention was on a…
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NewsTop 10 articles of 2018
The top ten posts of 2018 show that Reformed folk have had wide-ranging interests this past year… #10. Movie Review: “I survived ‘I Kissed Dating…
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AssortedSong of Songs (A Christine Farenhorst Christmas story)
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a…
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Saturday Selections – December 15, 2018
Merry Christmas from the moon On Dec. 24, 1968, three American astronauts, orbiting the moon for the first time ever, had an opportunity to give…