How Should the Church Respond to Gender Confusion? - Blog - Eternal Perspective Ministries
Every false religion is an attack on God and His word.
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Is the Church doing enough to address animal rights issues
In today's society, animal rights are more than just a trending topic; they represent a pressing ethical concern. Interestingly, the Church, an institution with significant sway over moral and ethical matters, has also been a part of this conversation, albeit to varying degrees. You may wonder, is the Church doing...
6 min readElizabeth Prata
“Who has the right to govern our conscience?” Film Review: The Essential Church
By Elizabeth Prata Wow. This documentary packed a punch. And I’ve seen a lot of documentaries. The film began with a recounting of a crucial moment in church history with the ever growing ten…
7 min readChris Hutchison
Put Together on Purpose - Emmanuel Baptist Church
The Psalms are not a random collection. They were put together, in the order they're in, on purpose. The Psalms reached their final form sometime after the exile to Babylon, which we know because of the several Psalms directly addressing the exile or its aftermath (eg. Psalm 137). The final editors of the Psalms arranged
6 min readMichael Chung
Why do we need another church when there are already so many?
Don’t we have enough churches? Why plant another? These are reasonable questions. The answer is simple: we don’t need less churches, we need more.The reality is that Christianity is in decline in the United States. A slew of surveys indicate this. According to the Pew Research Center, the percentage of...
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Why church is a hospital for sinners
“The church is a hospital for sinners and not a museum for saints” - Timothy Keller.One of the common misconceptions about the church is that it is for holy people. So, many people are afraid or hesitant to go to church. They seemed to think that they were not worthy...
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Why people do not go to church
The church is where we can find rest and peace with the chaos and distractions around us. It is where we could meet other Believers and enjoy God’s presence. It should be a place we all look forward to entering. However, this is not the case. Christian churches are more...
6 min readLinda M. Kurth
Choosing a Church
That invisible "No Longer Welcome Sign" tears at the heart and leaves an already hurting person with deeper pain.Why do so many Christian churches shame and shun their own people? Sometimes there is also fear that the "divorce germ" may spread, influencing others to leave their spouses.Whatever the reason, the victims of this behavior often leave church, never to return. I've been in those shoes. Look at their website. 3. Be wiseLook for possible areas that would make you stumble: the position of women in the church, a personality cult around the pastor, the amount of authority the church exercises in its members' lives, etc.4.
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Domestic Abuse Help
Rick Snodgrass, Pastor CTK - Skagit While writing a few blog posts about domestic abuse of women within the global church, I began to wonder about my own church, a network of congregations called Christ the King.I approached our new pastor, Rick Snodgrass, concerning this issue. Rarely will someone come up and say I’m going through a domestic abuse situation, how can I be ministered to here in my church?One of the ways that some friends at Christ the King Church in Nampa, Idaho responded to God's nudge was to make Christmas special, and to create a safe place to get away for an evening and do some fun secondhand shopping. That means trust needs to be built with victims, and those who are loving on them need to trust the ministry to do what they say they’re going to do.The fire department showed up with an engine and we had a really fun Mr.
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How to correct our churchmates in a Christian way
We all had to deal with correcting someone we care about in our church community at some point. In reality, it is a sensitive subject. No one likes being the 'bad guy' pointing out someone else's mistakes. Here is the thing— ignoring the issue does not make it go away....
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Why Paige Patterson Got Away with Abusing Women
Sexual assault by men in power is a hot-button subject these days. I’ve been following several of these cases, trying to understand how they relate to abusive Christian marriages. When Paige...
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Breaking the Bonds of the Patriarchal Church
I feel a major shift coming in the treatment of women within the Christian church. I shout, "Hallelujah!" This feels like the Christian women's version of the "Me Too" movement. Women are speaking...
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Women leading the early church?
By Elizabeth Prata It’s spiritually grieving to see so much false teaching and wrong doctrine on Twitter (AKA “X”). Satan certainly does use social media to his advantage, doesn&#…
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Our Cultural Confusion over Gender and Sexuality - Blog - Eternal Perspective Ministries
We have turned our backs on the Architect, Engineer, and Builder of human sexuality.
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Finding Grace Within the Church
I met Kathleen Pooler on line two or three years ago, and found we had much in common. She loves the Lord, as I do, and she's a mighty fine writer. I found her memoir, Ever Faithful to His Lead: My...
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Deep Wounds: Divorce, the Church, and God
I’m in a good place, and reliving it as I put it into writing, opens deep wounds I don’t want to open right now. I can simply say this; there was not a good response from the church. [This was...
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Spiritual Abuse in the Church
As the marriage progressed, I became aware of the duplicity of his motives, intentions and belief systems about marriage and women in general.
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