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By Joseph Sunde
“It needs to be our job to envision a different future for the church in which we teach our young people to compete in the arena and be so excellent that they cannot be denied — to be shepherds.” -Gregory Thornbury
In a recent lecture at the ERLC’s 2016 National Conference, Gregory Thornbury, President of King’s College in New…
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By Jordan Ballor
Conversations about human dignity often, and rightly, refer to the biblical concept of the image of God. In the creation account in Genesis 1:27 we read that “God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” The third person pronouns are fitting here because the text is…
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By Joseph Sunde
“If all of our working and all of our resting serves the same vocation of love, why do we so often feel out of balance?”
In a recent talk for the Oikonomia Network, author and church historian Dr. Chris Armstrong offers a fascinating exploration of the question, challenging the common Christian responses on “work-life balance”…
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By Phillip Booth
In a free society, persons participate in economic exchange and civil society freely, without interference as long as they do not harm others. Of course, actions such as inciting violence and so on need to be dealt with and possibly prosecuted. But, individuals and families, often working as communities and through civil society…
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By Joseph Sunde
At 14 years old, Tim Harris dreamed of owning his own restaurant. He was born with Down syndrome, so his parents weren’t quite sure what to think. Soon after Tim began his first job as a host at Red Robin, it all started to make sense.
“[Customers] were visibly happy to see him and Tim really developed a following,” says Keith…
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By Abraham Kuyper
Money can entice one to all kinds of sin; in fact, there is almost no sin imaginable to which it does not entice. However, this is merely the consequence of the core corruption money brings as soon as it becomes for someone what his God alone can and may be for him.
That struggle also goes on for a long time in the heart. Our…
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