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My Name Is Dee, and I Am an Idolater

Facing My Deepest Desires

Why did my administrative assistants keep resigning? My first assistant had stayed with me four years, but the other two had lasted only two years. I was mystified.

God Has Not Forgotten Russia’s Orphans

How Should We React to New Policy?

Russia’s new orphan-care legislation is a great limitation, humanly speaking, but it does not limit the power and passion of our God.

If Grace is Received, It Must be Given

In the early 1960s no one in Americus, Ga., would have guessed that 10 miles up the road in Plains a peanut farmer was destined to become president of the United States. Nor would they have cared.

Jacob’s Well Flows To Frosty Green Bay

Biggest obstacle to church planting is church

The biggest challenge to church planting in Green Bay is not the long winters of social hibernation or the cultural habit of retreating to lake houses in the summer. The biggest challenge is church.

Reclaiming a Pool Hall to Renew a Neighborhood

In a culture of gangs and poverty, Brad Beier has met fatherless children, confused young men, and single moms just trying to make it.

Historic Practice is Invisible in the Bible

The Paedocommunion Debate

Advocates of paedocommunion — by which is meant the participation in the Lord’s Supper by baptized, weaned covenant children — fully appreciate why many remain unpersuaded.

Paedocommunion: Wrong View of Membership and Sacrament

In this article I intend to demonstrate why I think paedocommunion is unbiblical. By paedocommunion, I mean the practice of giving the elements of the Lord’s Supper to children simply because they are baptized members of the church.

Practical Theology

Our interview with Dr. Kelly M. Kapic

The question–whether you’re a teacher, businessman, or academic–is not “are you a theologian?” but “are you a good one?”

Not Sermons but Stories

Engaging in Culture the Right Way

If you’ve read The Chronicles of Narnia, you know they are loaded with Christian themes and symbols. That’s why many assume that C. S. Lewis wrote them in order to send some kind of Christian message. But Lewis himself insisted otherwise. The tales, he said, started as a series of pictures that came into his…

From Heaven to Earth

Christmas is a time for stories. When I was a boy, our family would gather on Christmas Eve by the fire’s warmth and hear the story of Santa’s coming with toys: “Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house / not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” I always liked that story, because I got its message: the sooner I got to bed, the sooner I would be opening presents!

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