Shepherding Saturday

  • Our counseling professor wanted us to see this video as an example of the best the world’s counseling can do. Biblical Counseling unlike this skit points to the sin in a situation and encourages people to repent and to trust Jesus to change you so as to overcome the sin. This skit only gives half

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  • Newsletter March 2009

                       I heard a very disturbing statement in the past month that I think we need to consider. The statement on a radio show said “the culture is just one step ahead of church on the issue of abortion”. I had a knee jerk reaction to this statement. I could not believe that anyone would

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  • Newsletter: Nov. 2008

                As we conclude our newsletter series of writings on the nature of Christians and politics, I want to again encourage you to go and vote! Even so, my comments today refer not to the election, but to our response after the vote. How should a Christian respond especially if the “wrong” person is elected?

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  • Newsletter: October 2008

         Last month’s column established that faith and politics should mix, but in a very different way than expected. Our faith should inspire us to vote our convictions yet we must never forget the central place of evangelism to our mission as a church. We do not exist to get people elected, but to transform

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  • Why not Choose Life?

         For several months I have been hearing that within one of our major parties, a Pro-Life group has been lobying for the platform to be adapted to state that while they believe in a woman’s right to choose they also believe that efforts should be made to prevent abortions, thus supporting a woman’s decision to have a baby. The actual wording

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  •      Does anyone really know what is right? Maybe the question should be how do we know what is right? Considering what is right in any situation baffles the brightest minds especially when the situation is real life instead of hypothetical. In reading the news headlines on the PRTC website (PRTC is our local telephone and cable company)

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  • Not So Civil Unions

          In talking to a friend this weekend she shared an e-mail with me from her brother. He was telling her how upset he was that she would not participate in his “civil union” ceremony with his partner. Of course both his current angst and his lifestyle has upset my friend. In reading the e-mail, this

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