Posts by dcsj
Tunnel Discovered Under Egyptian Temple
While looking for the burial place of Queen Cleopatra, archaeologists uncovered the entrance to a long tunnel running underneath the Egyptian temple of Taposiris Magna, located just west of Alexandria. Partly submerged under the Mediterranean Sea, the tunnel likely originally served as an aqueduct. Although not an entrance to Cleopatra’s tomb as the archaeological team…
Read MoreBaptist pastor resigns school board over clash of faith and culture | Baptist Press
An independent Baptist pastor has resigned from his elected position on the local school board, saying it proved incompatible with his duty to uphold the Bible. William “BJ” Volkert, youth pastor at Bible Baptist Church in York, also faced threats of lawsuits in his seat on the Northeastern School District board in Manchester. Particularly, he…
Read MoreThe Case For Kids by Kevin DeYoung | Articles | First Things
The most significant thing happening in the world may very well be a thing that is not happening: Men and women are not having children. The biblical logic has been reversed, and the barren womb has said “Enough!” (Prov. 30:16). The paradigmatic affliction of the Old Testament is now the great desire of nations. If…
Read MoreReclaiming the Language of “Temptation” for Same-Sex-Tempted and Contrary-Gender-Tempted Christians – Kindle Afresh
I recently sat in (yet another) seminar about how to counsel Christians who are tempted toward same-sex sexual activity or tempted to embrace a gender contrary to their birth sex. I left the seminar helped in a number of ways. But I was struck once again—since I have begun to identify this as a pattern—that…
Read MoreThe Problem with Four-Views Books – Kindle Afresh
But there is a problem. Increasingly I’m convinced that the problem is not minor. Multiple-views books present as serious options positions that are sometimes either on the fringe of historic Christianity or (as this genre has developed) sometimes outside of its doctrinal boundaries altogether. Such books give the impression that each represented position is a…
Read MoreOpinion | Democrats are proving to be the real extremists on abortion – The Washington Post
Democrats are salivating over the chance to portray Republicans as antiabortion extremists in the wake of the anticipated overruling of Roe v. Wade. But their unwillingness to accept limits on late-term abortions shows they are the real extremists. Source: Opinion | Democrats are proving to be the real extremists on abortion – The Washington Post…
Read More‘It’s Super Spectacular.’ See How the Tonga Volcano Unleashed a Once-in-a-Century Shockwave. – The New York Times
A new simulation gives a detailed look at a shockwave that circled the planet for days. … When an underwater volcano in the Pacific island nation of Tonga erupted violently in mid-January, it spawned a tsunami that devastated many of its islands and struck far-off shores across the ocean. But the huge volcanic explosion also…
Read MoreThe Future is Vast: Longtermism’s perspective on humanity’s past, present, and future – Our World in Data
In 2022 7.95 billion of us are alive. Taken together with those who have died, about 117 billion humans have been born since the dawn of modern humankind. Source: The Future is Vast: Longtermism’s perspective on humanity’s past, present, and future – Our World in Data [P&D note: the author of this piece assumes that…
Read MoreThe Amazing Shift of Four “Front Doors” in Churches | Church Answers
The new front doors today are our streaming worship services. The pandemic moved church members and guests to this medium in the millions. Potential guests today are still likely to visit churches digitally first. Instead of a static website, though, they are visiting a streaming worship service either live or recorded. Source: The Amazing Shift…
Read MoreThe Progression of Cultic Leadership: Thoughts on The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill | GARBC
From our earliest days, recorded in the book of Genesis, fallen humanity has been obsessed with worshiping the creature over the Creator. Today this propensity is often manifested through infatuation with celebrities and compelling personalities, which is expected in a world without Christ. But it is tragic when it happens within the church. In Christian…
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