Recommended Books (Spring 2025)
This spring we would like to share some good reads we discovered over the past few months. These selections represent a wide array of topics that we think will interest you. Some selections will be great for personal reading, others for family time. Most of all, we think they will broaden your understanding of God’s creation and His work in it because they have had that result in our lives. Please leave us your favorite reads in the...
From Apathy to Apostasy: The Danger of Dullness in Hearing God’s Word
by Daniel Mann Is it possible for genuine believers in Jesus Christ to fall away from Him and be eternally lost? Of course, this theological question has occupied scholars for centuries, and it is far too broad of a topic to be covered thoroughly in a brief essay. Nevertheless, the issue is vital for us to consider and deserves attention from all of God’s people. We may be tempted to view this subject as an abstract doctrine—one that...
The Shallows, TikTok, and Our Brains
by Anna Pinson In The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet has physically changed the brains of human beings in a way that reflects the nature of the tool, causing extreme distraction, worsened memories, and shallower intelligence. To prove his point, Carr compares the modern computer- and Internet-based culture to the preceding book-based culture of the West, tracing the history...
Francis Schaeffer: The Revolutionary?
For the past few years, I have been neck-deep in the writings of Francis Schaeffer. This research has included not only his Complete Works but also his pamphlets and articles. As I have read through his writings, I have kept finding references to “revolution.” Often these references relate to one’s Christian faith and spirituality. Schaeffer mentions that Bible-believing Christians are “revolutionary” as early as 1948 when he wrote an...
Act Like a Lady: Recovering Cultural Norms of Christian Femininity
In the last scene of Matt Walsh’s 2022 documentary, What Is a Woman?, Walsh finally gets around to asking his wife (instead of trans activists, gender studies professors, and psychologists, who are unable/unwilling to answer) the question that titles his film. She answers, “An adult human female . . . who needs help opening this,” as she hands her husband a pickle jar. The ending is good because it is so funny; but it is also good...
What Has Ararat to Do with Asia Minor?
by Ed Goode Applying the imagery in the Song of Solomon to the relationship between God and His church, it tells us that the Lord sees His church being as “beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners” (6:10, ESV). However, we are sometimes tempted to doubt this depiction when we walk into a meeting house to find weak coffee, ordinary people, and a minister who might be doing his best but cannot hold a...
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