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Looking at contemporary culture from a Christian worldview


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BOOK REVIEWS and NEWS

Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age by Rosaria Butterfield. Crossway. 369 pages. 2023      ****

This is the fourth book by Rosaria Butterfield, all of which I have read and learned from. She writes that this book is for Christians, especially Christian women, who are not ashamed of the Bible and its teachings—or who are and want to change. Butterfield, formerly a lesbian English professor at Syracuse University and now a pastor’s wife, writes that this is a book about dismantling the idol of our times – the world of LGBTQ+ that she in her sin helped build. She weaves in aspects of her story throughout the book.
She tells us that overnight, a civil war within Christianity has broken out, where it feels like we are living at ground zero of the Tower of Babel. She writes that the book offers one simple answer: the world is in chaos, and the church is divided because we have failed to obey God and value his plan for how men and women should live. We foolishly believed that we could reinvent our calling as men and women, defy God’s pattern and purpose for the sexes, and somehow reap God’s blessing.

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Pour Yourself Into Your Grandchildren in Retirement

There are many ways that you can serve the Lord in retirement. One way is to pour yourself into your grandchildren. My wife Tammy and I were not blessed with children. However, over the years we have had a special relationship with nieces, nephews and now grand nieces and nephews.
In his book An Uncommon Guide to Retirement, Jeff Haanen writes that reconnecting with family is a genuine joy of retirement. He tells us that for many, serving kids, grandkids, and aging parents is central to a sense of vocation in this season of life. In his book Retiring Well, John Dunlop tells us that we must talk to our grandchildren about God frequently. God can use us as a means for them to come to faith, learn to fear him, and do what is right. He adds that involvement with family may be the greatest way we can glorify God in retirement. Continue reading


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THIS & THAT: A Gathering of Favorite Articles and Quotes

  • What Is Transgenderism? Rosaria Butterfield writes “We must learn to be content in God and unsatisfied in the world as we define our identity in light of Scripture alone.”
  • 5 Reasons We Must Still Do Good. Kevin DeYoung writes “Good works are not optional for the Christian. We must do good, not as the means of our acceptance with God, but as an expression of it.”
  • Making Every Issue Your Thing is Impossible. In this short video, Kevin DeYoung states “Only God is able to comprehend and handle an entire globe of joys and catastrophes and needs. The human psyche isn’t meant to bear that.”

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