How I Know My Wife Married the “Wrong” Person | CROSS-SHAPED STUFF. Photo Credit: Suni Danielle Photography Today my wife Lindsay and I celebrate our two year anniversary. Two years ago, we tied the knot and took the plunge. Two years ago, the cutest girl in Indiana was taken off the market! Two years ago, we launched the beginning of the rest of our lives. Two years ago… And after two years, there’s no hiding behind the dinner-and-a-movie façade of dating life any longer. I can’t buy enough flowers to conceal it. Allow me to humbly explain (before she reads this). Don’t believe me? Much could be said about where this mindset came from, but let’s just leave it at this – Singles today (and most married couples too) are searching for super-spouses that simply don’t exist.
That’s why I know beyond doubt, at least by society’s standards, that Lindsay married the wrong person. So what then is the solution? (1) Every time your significant other falls short, find another. . (2) Try it before you buy it. . (3) Avoid it all. Not much. Like this: Like Loading... Newsletter - redeemer.com. June 2012by Tim Keller I find it frustrating when I read or hear columnists, pundits, or journalists dismiss Christians as inconsistent because “they pick and choose which of the rules in the Bible to obey.” What I hear most often is “Christians ignore lots of Old Testament texts—about not eating raw meat or pork or shellfish, not executing people for breaking the Sabbath, not wearing garments woven with two kinds of material and so on.
Then they condemn homosexuality. Aren’t you just picking and choosing what they want to believe from the Bible?” It is not that I expect everyone to have the capability of understanding that the whole Bible is about Jesus and God’s plan to redeem his people, but I vainly hope that one day someone will access their common sense (or at least talk to an informed theological advisor) before leveling the charge of inconsistency. First of all, let’s be clear that it’s not only the Old Testament that has proscriptions about homosexuality.
The Tragedy of the Dumb Church | The Confident Christian. I have a friend who’s an experienced pastor, teacher, and Christian apologist. He’s very well educated, articulate, teaches in a way that hits the mark, and has a passion particularly for grounding young people in the faith during their high school and early college years. Currently, he’s employed with Youth for Christ and a while back he felt a burden to try and help churches in our area do what he does best, which is equip youth to defend the Christian faith in the world and know what/why they believe. Because he’s developed a number of curriculums to use for such situations, he sent a letter to all the churches in our metropolitan area (which is quite a lot) explaining what he does, and offered to come to their church free of charge and conduct Christian apologetic training for their youth.
How many churches took him up on his offer? Zero. Maybe a young person was brought up in a church. Why does this keep happening? In short, it happens because much of the Church today is dumb. Dr. A Spiritual Mentor's Lasting Influence: Henri Nouwen. Twenty-three years ago, the spring issue of Harvard Divinity Bulletin included the following announcement: "Henri J.M. Nouwen, a Dutch priest, theologian, psychologist, and noted author has accepted an appointment at HDS as Professor of Divinity and Horace De Y. Lentz Lecturer. The appointment begins with the 1983-84 academic year and will be on a halftime (spring only) basis to allow Nouwen to divide his time between the Divinity School and a theological center in Latin America.
" In the previous two years, Nouwen had concluded a 10-year stint of teaching at Yale Divinity School; was a brother at the Abbey of the Genesee, a Cistercian monastery in upstate New York; and had undertaken a six-month pastoral mission in South America. In the spring semesters of 1984 and 1985, the Sperry Room was filled for Nouwen's course "An Introduction to the Spiritual Life. " Like a Strong Wind by Michael Harank While I was honored, I was also cautious. Possibility and Chaos by Peter K. Lived Religion. Apologist Josh McDowell: Internet the Greatest Threat to Christians. (Photo: The Christian Post)Author Josh McDowell addresses attendees of the International Christian Retail Show at the Colorado Convention Center on Sunday, July 12, 2009. July 16, 2011|8:23 am Atheists and skeptics now have equal access to our children as we have, which is why the number of Christian youth who believe in the fundamentals of Christianity is decreasing and sexual immorality is growing, apologist Josh McDowell said.
“What has changed everything?” Asked the apologist from Campus Crusade for Christ International as he spoke on “Unshakable Truth, Relevant Faith” at the Billy Graham Center in Asheville, N.C., Friday evening. His answer was, the Internet. The belief or worldview, McDowell said, forms values, which in turn drive one’s behavior. The worldview “is where we are falling down the most anywhere in the world.” While 51 percent of evangelical Christians did not believe in absolute truth in an earlier survey, the percentage escalated to 62 in 1994. How can this be checked?