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Our Drunken, Suicidal, and Licentious Culture

Our Drunken, Suicidal, and Licentious Culture #Christian #ccot #temperance #alcohol #Bible #depression #suicide #metoo #prolife #protectmarriage

Item 1: Our Drunken Culture

While running a few errands on Friday 22 June 2018, I passed by the BevMo! store in Santee, California. (This is in San Diego County, where this alcohol-sales chain participates in a local economy whose other notable industries include tribal-land casinos and craft-beer brewers.) Outside this store I saw the following written on a black-background dry-erase display:…

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An excellent and edifying presentation: Michael Barrett on the tradition, text, and translation of the KJV. #EFH #Bible #Christian #video #audio #sermon #lecture Another one for your queue (video or audio): Michael Barrett speaks on the “Tradition, Text, and Translation of the KJV.” Highly recommended.

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Binge-Worthy video series shows that the Bible is not a weird puzzle to be pieced together from obscure clues by reading different meanings into equivalent biblical terms. Rather, it is a unity to be understood Christocentrically. #Christian #Bible #Video While, from a Bible-believing perspective, popular entertainment never merits the “binge-worthy” descriptor, it turns out there…

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My Sad Farewell to Vimeo, with Protest and Reflection Suggestions

My Sad Farewell to Vimeo, with Protest and Reflection Suggestions

“Leaving Vimeo” image © 2017 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges). Created using, and modifying, three Wikimedia Commons images: two public domain image (one by Vimeo, one released to the public domain by user ZyMOS) and one Creative-Commons-2.0-licensed image by Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A.

One disturbing thing about the rise of the World Wide Web as people’s main source of information is…

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The Carson Option: Viable for Evangelicals?

The Carson Option: Viable for Evangelicals?

I just read an interesting document, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and General Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s 2001 “Report of the International Theological Dialogue between the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches” (hereafter, the Dialog Report). As was the case with the Mormon faith of Mitt Romney, some evangelicals have (well, at…

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Brauns' Bound Together: Bound To Be A Positive Influence

Brauns, Chris. Bound Together: How We Are Tied to Others in Good and Bad Choices. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. Paperback. Cover price: $16.99. ISBN 978-0-310-49511-6.

On balance, this is an excellent book: well organized, theologically Reformed(in…

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