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My 5th/6th grade SS class just finished studying the Book of Joshua and  began the Book of Judges last week. Joshua , for the most part, is...

I hear much discussion these days concerning what "modern" Christianity should look like. Particularly for those who were raised i...

"For those of us who have been Christians for a while, it becomes easy to think that we've pretty much exhausted the possibilities...

I've ordered the 3-DVD Parenting Seminar by Paul Tripp [ Shepherding a Child's Heart ] and am making it available to all  my "m...

I recently posted a few things concerning key biblical elements indicative of a healthy church, such as expository preaching, biblical theol...

Most of us are familiar with Read-Through-the-Bible-in-a-Year plans. While it's useful to do this periodically in order to refresh yours...

I've noticed how easy it is to tell people on facebook or other social media, "I'm praying for you." Yet I wonder how much...

[Excerpted from Rediscovering Holiness , J.I. Packer] "We are all invalids in God's hospital. In moral and spiritual terms we are...

[Excerpted from Maurice Robert's "Redeeming the Tongue" from his book, "The Thought of God".] "When the Chris...

The Ladies winter book club will begin late January/early February. This time we'll be considering the issue of sanctification, the beli...

Sometimes people have the idea that it's too late for them to seriously study God's Word. I've recently been amazed to see what ...

I thought I would share a few significant antiquities from the collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art. As I descended the stairs to the a...

With Winter Doldrums Ladies' Book Club approaching after the holidays, I'm reading through a number of books on the importance of pe...

C.S. Lewis analyzes the difference between 'contemplation' and 'enjoyment' in his essay, "Meditation in a Toolshed...

I'd like to share a post from a "Guest Blogger". Anna Thorburn & her family attend Christ Community Church with my daughte...

"To be greatly and effectively wicked a man needs some virtue."  [Screwtape to Wormwood]   In Letter 29 we discover the patient...

"...we pick out this natural pleasantness of change and twist it into a demand for absolute novelty... But the greatest triumph of all ...

"Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.  And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a l...

The next group of letters focus upon the danger of allowing our senses to rule us.  In Letter 17 , Lewis expands the common understanding of...

"The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man who feels...