Category: Links

From the blog this week: Fighting Bitterness With Beauty You Need Not Worry About Next Year “However the last year has been for you, God could not have been more good to you than he has been.” Comforting Quotes For Those Who Are Suffering “We all go through difficult times in these difficult lives in…

From the blog this week- Light Has Pierced the Darkness: A Poem What is the Rapture? “My understanding of the New Testament is that Jesus promised he would return, and that in this returning, he would do a final rescue for those who are trusting him and a final judgment for those who are not…

From the blog this week: Lasting Joy Among The Waves The Number 1 Reason for Decline in Church Attendance “Few people will argue that church attendance in many churches in America is declining. Our own research indicates that the majority of churches in our country are not growing.” What Does it Mean to be Led…

From the blog this week: To The Brokenhearted Should Christians Demand That People Say ‘Merry Christmas’? “In our cultural moment, we should recognize the benefit of our nation’s fading allegiance to nominal Christianity. Now, more than ever, saying ‘Merry Christmas’ means something.” J.D Greear on How the Bible Talks About Hell “Would the existence of…

From the blog this week: The Fall of Man You Become What You Trust “These days, our idols look a bit nobler—a spouse, children, happiness, comfort, health—but they enslave us just like the idols of old.” 8 Years and $550 Million: A Pro-life Political Failure “This past year, the first in which Republicans controlled the…

From the blog this week: Advent: Focusing Our Hearts on Christ Three Reasons ‘Good People’ Miss the Kingdom of God “Religion is the number one substitute for genuine faith. Religion convinces you that you are worthy and gives you a list of things to make yourself more worthy. Religious people would rather have a religion…

A collection of links to encourage your growth in grace. From the blog this week: The Creation of Man. Anywhere But God: The Suffocating Hunt for Happiness “We all, to varying degrees, are conscious of this yawning cavern placed within us by Someone without. Inexplicably, we hunger for a meal we have not yet tasted;…

From the blog this week: Why Do You Worship? Moralism is Not The Gospel (But Many Christians Think It Is) “Hell will be highly populated with those who were “raised right.” The citizens of heaven will be those who, by the sheer grace and mercy of God, are there solely because of the imputed righteousness…

A collection of links from around the web this week: From the blog: 3 Aspects of God’s Providence The Call to Repentance and the Championing of Grace “The call to repentance is the call to return home. It’s the call to be refreshed by our tears. It’s the call to be cleansed from all our…

From the blog this week: Who Cares About the Reformation?; The Reformation: A Return to the Gospel; The Reformation: A Return to Scripture The Evolution of Divorce “The divorce revolution’s collective consequences for children are striking. Taking into account both divorce and non-marital childbearing, sociologist Paul Amato estimates that if the United States enjoyed the…