• Facing the Demands of Secularism with Hope. On this episode of Focus on the Family, Albert Mohler and Jim Daly help believers meet the challenges and demands of secularism with hope, confidence, conviction and the gospel, even as our influence may appear to be waning.
• HHS Transgender ‘Interpretation’ May Threaten Conscience Rights. Joe Carter writes “A new discrimination policy adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services could pose a threat to the conscience rights of healthcare workers.”
  

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• 3 Reality Checks for Your Marriage. Paul Tripp shares essential wisdom perspectives that Scripture gives us that enable us to have realistic expectations for our marriage.

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• 4 More Reasons Planned Parenthood Should Apologize. Joe Carter writes “While there are dozens of issues and crimes that Planned Parenthood Federation of America should apologize for, here are four of the most significant.”
• Rachel Hollis’s Problem Isn’t Privilege, It’s An Anti-Christian Gospel. Kylee Zempel writes “Self-help author, self-described media mogul, and self-proclaimed Christian Rachel Hollis is in a bit of a PR mess this week after wading into some bad social media optics and then doubling down, but contrary to what the race-baiters and even Hollis herself think, racial insensitivity isn’t her biggest problem.”
• Survey: Half of U.S. ‘Christians’ Say Casual Sex Is Acceptable. Joe Carter writes “A new survey finds that a majority of self-identified Christians don’t care what God thinks about the issue of sex.”

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• How Does Chronic Pain Glorify God? On this episode of the Ask Pastor John podcast, John Piper responds to the question “My mother, a believer, struggles with debilitating — very debilitating — nerve pain and can get no medical relief from anything doctors have tried. She suffers endlessly. How does such unalleviated suffering glorify God when it seems that God refuses to answer any of our prayers for mercy?”
• What Makes Women the “Weaker Vessel”? On this episode of the Ask Pastor John podcast, John Piper answers the question “What does Peter mean in 1 Peter 3:7 when he writes that husbands should live with their wives in an understanding way, ‘as the weaker vessel’? Specifically, what is the weaker vessel? Is she physically weaker, emotionally weaker, spiritually weaker, or something altogether different?
• Does God Love the Wicked the Same Way He Loves the Elect? Does God love everyone in the same way—both His redeemed people and His enemies? From one of the Ligonier live events, C.Sproul helps us understand what it means that “God so loved the world” (John 3:16).

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