Sorry, couldn’t resist. Enjoy this special day, everybody!

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One common misconception in the same-sex marriage debate is the idea that the traditional legal definition of marriage is a violation of equal rights. Since this is an extremely emotionally charged accusation, it’s difficult to get past it into a real discussion of the issue. Here’s the approach I usually take: 1. Nearly everyone who [...]

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Behold, the fruit of class warfare rhetoric. This is what happens when you teach that “rich people” became rich at your expense and they owe you their property. The end of respect for private property and a person’s right to have what he’s earned is the end of civilization. Please go read Money, Greed, and [...]

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I’ve been reading Richard Wurmbrand’s Tortured for Christ, a book about the sufferings of Christians under the Communists, particularly Wurmbrand’s own suffering in Romania. This book puts some flesh and bones on what we read about suffering in 1 Peter, enabling us to see with our own “eyes” the reality of the unique role suffering [...]

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In Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man (published in 1677), Scougal notes the connection between a “serious consideration” of the “certainty and importance” of the truths of Christianity and a thriving Christian life: I shall mention but two other means for begetting that holy and divine temper of spirit which [...]

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Today is the National Day of Prayer, and while prayer is a central part of life for some of you, I have no doubt that many of you are sheepishly reflecting on the fact that you’re not very big on prayer. Perhaps some of you are even defiantly resisting prayer, or are merely depressed and [...]

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Today we think about an event that was not only the result of evil, but also the reason for allowing evil to exist in the first place. That event is the revealing of the perfection and beauty of God’s grace and righteousness through the demonstration of both on the cross: For all have sinned and [...]

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Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; and they said to him…”Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.” So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who had asked of him a king. He said, “This will be [...]

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I saw a disturbing play last weekend.  It was disturbing because it spoke the truth about the condition of man.  Extinction is the story of two men who, for a decade since their friendship began in college, have met annually in Atlantic City to revel in all the drugs, gambling, and women the city has [...]

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Obama’s health advisor, Ezekiel Emanuel, explains his philosophy on the kind of rules that ought to be created for health care rationing: True reform, he argues, must include redefining doctors’ ethical obligations…. Dr. Emanuel argues that to make such [rationing] decisions, the focus cannot be only on the worth of the individual. He proposes adding [...]

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