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2025-09-29T09:35:38-04:00

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Monday Miscellany, 9/29/25

Last updated on: September 29, 2025 at 9:35 am By Gene Veith

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Thoughts on Charlie Kirk. U.S. test scores hit new low. And AI-written books on Kirk's murder go on sale hours after it happened. Read more

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2025-09-09T18:23:29-04:00

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Prayer and God’s Name

Last updated on: September 9, 2025 at 6:23 pm By Gene Veith

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The Lord’s Prayer reminds us that it makes a huge difference whom we are praying to. A prayer calls upon a specific God, one who is named. “Our Father, which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.” The teaching of the Bible about prayer is full of names. Read more

2025-09-09T17:46:12-04:00

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Peer Pressure vs. Integrity

Last updated on: September 9, 2025 at 5:46 pm By Gene Veith

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Some of the exercises designed to teach young people not to give in to peer pressure actually teach them to give in to peer pressure! And adults can be just as susceptible to peer pressure as their children. Read more

Church as Christ's Body

2025-09-24T09:20:17-04:00

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Doing Without Church

Last updated on: September 24, 2025 at 9:20 am By Gene Veith

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Today, a growing number of Christians have been pulling out of churches. Despite the continued visibility of megachurches, the new trend is for minichurches, microchurches, or no churches at all. Read more

unchurched Christians

2025-09-08T18:30:19-04:00

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Missionaries to Our Heathen Darkness

Last updated on: September 8, 2025 at 6:30 pm By Gene Veith

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As Christianity declines in the West, churches from the old mission field are the ones defending historic Christianity and are evangelizing Europe and America. Read more

Christian cultural influence

Christianity and culture

Christianity in Global South

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St. Boniface

2025-09-08T16:50:58-04:00

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How Sin Destroys Freedom

Last updated on: September 8, 2025 at 4:50 pm By Gene Veith

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For many of us, freedom above all means the liberty to sin. But, according to the Bible, this is the opposite of freedom. Sin has nothing to do with liberty. Sin destroys freedom. Sin enslaves. Read more

Luther's "Bondage of the Will"

Luther's "Freedom of a Christian"

2025-09-04T13:35:53-04:00

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God’s Other Kingdom

Last updated on: September 4, 2025 at 1:35 pm By Gene Veith

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Clearing up a topic that is often misunderstood and misapplied: the doctrine of the Two Kingdoms. This teaching does NOT sanctify the status quo. It takes away the need for Christians to Christianize everything. And it frees Christians to embrace what is good in the secular realm. Read more

Christianity and the secular realm

Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms

2025-09-03T12:45:41-04:00

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Justifying Ourselves

Last updated on: September 3, 2025 at 12:45 pm By Gene Veith

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We always keep insisting how good we are. Even Christians do, while confessing in other contexts that they are sinners. Self-justification is at the root of our conflicts with other people. It can breed a self-righteousness that shuts out Christ, who alone can justify us. Read more

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2025-09-03T12:12:08-04:00

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When Culture Opposes Family

Last updated on: September 3, 2025 at 12:12 pm By Gene Veith

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The family is the foundation of culture, as all anthropologists agree. But today in the 21st century West, the culture and the family are in conflict, to the detriment of both. Read more

2025-09-03T11:37:46-04:00

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A Tale of Two Funerals

Last updated on: September 3, 2025 at 11:37 am By Gene Veith

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On two funerals I attended and the different ways they responded to grief: emotional catharsis vs. the comfort of Christ. Read more

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