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  • Show of hands: Who wants more than 1 wife?

    Show of hands: Who wants more than 1 wife?

    Ford points to Exodus 21:10 to defend his two marriages. But that verse belongs to Israel’s civil law, and like Moses’ allowance for divorce, it was an accommodation to hardened hearts rather than God’s design “from the beginning.”

  • God must interrupt you to save you

    God must interrupt you to save you

    Most of us believe we found God by finally making the right choice. Scripture tells a different story: we were spiritually dead and unwilling until God called us to life.

  • Why couldn’t Jesus tell His disciples everything?

    Why couldn’t Jesus tell His disciples everything?

    During His earthly ministry, Jesus was limited in what He could teach by the spiritual limitations of His disciples. Pentecost changed that, and it should change how we read the Bible.

  • James Talarico and the Bible’s silence on abortion, take 2

    James Talarico and the Bible’s silence on abortion, take 2

    James Talarico says Jesus never talked about abortion, and technically he’s right. But if you want to know whether the Bible affirms the sanctity of unborn life, the answer is clear.

  • Obama is wrong to call Jews ‘excessive.’ Elisha Wiesel sets him straight

    Obama is wrong to call Jews ‘excessive.’ Elisha Wiesel sets him straight

    Former President Barack Obama told a Belfast audience that the Jews “took land off people” and were “excessive.” Elisha Wiesel is right to call those words dangerous, and Christians should say so too.

  • Boo! Haunted houses aren’t real, but …

    Boo! Haunted houses aren’t real, but …

    Most paranormal shows are fraud, delusion or pure entertainment. But some encounters are genuine, and the real danger isn’t meeting something we can’t explain. It’s confronting something we can’t properly discern until it’s too late.

  • Nidal Hasan’s execution: What ‘public’ should mean for Christians

    Nidal Hasan’s execution: What ‘public’ should mean for Christians

    Please allow me to be crystal clear: I support the death penalty. … Such ‘public’ or livestreamed executions make a spectacle of the event. I believe that cheapens and coarsens the public’s view of human life.

  • What we learn from the scary Jesus of Revelation

    What we learn from the scary Jesus of Revelation

    In Revelation 2 and 3, the gentle and lowly Jesus speaks to seven churches with both praise and severe warning. He knows their works, their compromises and what they can’t see about themselves. He knows ours, too.

  • Should Christian parents pull their kids out of public school?

    Should Christian parents pull their kids out of public school?

    I believe Christian parents make a terrible mistake when they turn their children over to the state for education for the majority of their formative years.

  • Why are Christians leaving for Islam?

    Why are Christians leaving for Islam?

    When Christians leave the faith for Islam, it's tempting to say they were never truly believers. A former Muslim argues that this response lets the Church off the hook, and that real renewal starts with repentance inside the Church, not with political battles outside it.

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