John Stonestreet and S. Michael Craven

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  Mar 13, 2014

  Responding to Our 'Pornified' Culture

  Even the secular world is worried about pornography. But without the worldview to fight it, they're at an impasse. This is where the church can help.

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  Mar 3, 2014

  Baking Cakes for Caesar: Why We Need Freedom to Say 'No'

  Would Jesus bake cakes for same-sex weddings? It's a good question, but there's more to this whole issue than just WWJD.

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  Dec 6, 2013

  Spending This Christmas or Spending It Well: Resisting Consumerism

  The Christmas season is once again upon us and with it overwhelming encouragement from Madison Avenue to spend what we have not earned to buy what we cannot afford. The day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday (indicating the point at which retailers are in the black – or at least hope to be), signaled the start of the "holiday shopping season." That very phrase reveals the commercialized emphasis that has come to define Christmas for many Americans. If that wasn't enough, we now have "Smal

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  Nov 28, 2013

  Giving Thanks to God: Losing a National Tradition

  As we, once again, approach this national day of "thanksgiving" I thought it necessary to reflect upon our nation's long history of acknowledging and giving thanks to the Almighty God.

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  Nov 22, 2013

  Would You 'Give Up Everything' for the Kingdom?

  Our new life in Christ should sever reliance on the temporal things of this world and replace it with dependence upon the Father who controls all things and provides abundantly for his children. This is the proper ordering of life that Christ came to restore. It is this "proper ordering" that we should seek after.

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  Oct 15, 2013

  The Celebrity Trap: Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pop Stars

  One of the first times Americans over the age of twelve saw Miley Cyrus on television was an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show. During the Q&A, the 14-year-old Cyrus told Winfrey that her favorite Bible verse was Ephesians 6:10-11: "Finally, my brothers, come close to the Lord for if you put on the full armor of God you can stand against the wiles of the devil."

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  Sep 26, 2013

  Tim's Place. . . and Ours: Down Syndrome and Our Humanity

  In the very same strip mall I saw the sign for a restaurant called Tim's Place, with the tag line: "breakfast, lunch, and hugs." It just sounded familiar. And then it dawned on me—this was the restaurant I'd heard about before, the one owned by a 26-year-old man with Down syndrome—Tim Harris. You may have heard this story on CNN or seen it on YouTube.

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  Sep 3, 2013

  Christians in America: Out of Touch and Out of Reach

  According to a report produced in 2013, "Christianity in its Global Context, 1970–2020: Society, Religion, and Mission," researchers at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, offer a timely overview of the changing demographics of Christianity and Christians' activities over the past forty years.

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  Aug 31, 2013

  Breadwinner Moms: What Is the Media Celebrating?

  When does bad news get trumpeted as "good news"? When a set of facts doesn't fit the prevailing feminist narrative.

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  Aug 25, 2013

  Moral Insanity: California's Transgender-Student Bill

  Paul's point is not that there are some exceptionally wicked people out there (for all have sinned and fallen short – see Romans 3:23). Rather Paul is expressing the fact that such clear distortions of the creator's male-plus-female intention occur in the world indicates that the human race as a whole is guilty of character-twisting idolatry.