In June, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force drafted a recommendation that “clinicians screen women of childbearing age for intimate partner violence (IPV), such as domestic violence, and provide or refer women who screen positive to intervention services,” extending the call to include even those “women who do not have signs or symptoms of abuse.”[1] […]
Yesterday, I posted an article on the newest phenomenon in the publishing world. Today I want to explore the reasons fueling the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey, and examine why we as believers should be concerned with the foothold it occupies in the American psyche. This is Part Two, “Fifty Shades of Grace.” Tomorrow […]
Mrs. Turpin and Mary Grace sat opposite one another there in the doctor’s office. Grace wore her wounds upon her face while Mrs. Turpin’s demeanor announced the complacent wholeness of her entire being. As the wife of a well-to-do hog farmer, Mrs. Turpin did not normally keep company with the sick and infirm, but her […]
From my friend Petra at This Good Steward, a link to an incredible message by Ligon Duncan. For anyone who (like me) has experienced darkness and doubt — sheer depression and the “why God?!” that billows from an overtaxed soul, there is comfort (and hope!) for you. The Underestimated God : Together for the Gospel […]
“The refusal to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering in human life.” The tyranny of illusion. Is any of us truly free from it? Intelligent minds shun the notion — or at least they say they do. But the truth lies at the base of the meteoric rise of entertainment and […]
You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or covetous person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a such a person is really an idolater who worships the things of this world.” Ephesians 5:5 Puritan David Clarkson penned a fabulously helpful treatise called Soul Idolatry Excludes Men From Heaven. “Every reigning […]