The God of love and peace be with you.

(Yesterday on the blog: Does God Care How You Cook Your Goat?)

God Delivers From the Suffering He Ordains

This is a good one from John Piper. “I think we should think this way: If God does not have the power or the wisdom or the right or the love to restrain deadly natural forces or hostile human forces or destructive satanic forces — if he doesn’t have the wherewithal to restrain them from hurting you — on what basis are you going to count on him to give you endurance in sufferings, or to give you relief from the suffering in this life, or to give you final happiness in the age to come?”

The Beautiful Partnership of Family and Church

Casey McCall explains his church’s “Parent-Congregational Prayer Covenant” and then explains “two errors in how families view the church.”

The End of Religious Liberty

Jason G. Duesing: “Are we seeing the end of religious liberty? For Christians in America, we see the complexities of cultural engagement. Articulating the truths of biblical Christianity regarding sexuality and gender alone, brings conflict or worse. So, it is good and right to be


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