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Gen Z’s Marriage Misunderstanding

Statistics indicate that Gen Z is returning to a more traditional lifestyle … but do the numbers tell the whole story? Or are Gen Z adults still missing something important?

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A Biblical Basis For The 7 Traits Of Effective Parenting

These seven traits offer parents the tools they need to break harmful parenting habits and the opportunity to replace them with healthy practices.

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Top Pro-Life Movies and Books for the Whole Family

Top pro-life movies and books that encourage conversation about adoption, preborn, special needs and elderly.

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Biblical Discipline Has Five Characteristics

Sometimes it’s hard to know if you’re disciplining your children effectively. Try using these five measures from the Bible.

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Advance Care Planning: Finish Life with Confidence 

For thousands of years, cultures of all types have recognized the importance of advance care planning. Psalm 90:12 instructs, “Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart.” Christ, himself, emphasized being prepared for death through parables like the parable of the ten virgins (Mt 25:1-13), or the parable of …

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Frozen Embryos: Ethical Issues, Cryopreservation Risks, and IVF

“So, they’re like sea monkeys?” was the question I asked in my 10th-grade human physiology class when first learning about frozen embryos via IVF. Sea monkeys, a type of brine shrimp popular with children, “come to life” through cryptobiosis—a suspended animation state that animals enter in harsh conditions and exit when the environment improves. Although …

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Identity in Christ: A Gen Z Viewpoint

I struggled to find my identity in Christ, trying to find my identity in materialistic things of the world. I was so consumed with gaining the “perfect” group of friends that I used alcohol to cope and did things that I’m far from proud of. This ultimately led to comparing my looks and personality to …

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Is Spanking Biblical?

How often have you heard the adage, “Spare the rod; spoil the child?‚”used in conversations about spanking? Keep reading to learn more about the origin of this phrase and its impact on discipline.

Fears That Keep Pastors From Preaching About Abortion

Many pastors are unwilling to engage the issue of abortion from the pulpit. The result is that these pastors abandon their congregations on this issue, leaving the narrative to be written by the world.

How Do I Respond to Bible Critics?

Contemporary critics sometimes claim that since the Bible contains so many miracles, it just can’t be true. Either these are just made up stories, they argue, or simple people were just tricked.

Reentering the Dating Scene After Divorce

When reentering the dating scene after divorce, it must be according to God’s standards.

True Tolerance: Faithfully Serving the God of Truth

Christians are told their beliefs are matters of faith and, therefore, tolerance must override faith.

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Understanding the Myths of Gender Identity and Transgenderism

Male and female are not what we feel we are, but what we actually are. Help your kids sort the truth from fiction regarding transgenderism because transgenderism doesn’t physically exist.

How Do I Handle Bible Difficulties?

Theologically liberal approaches to the Bible often simply accept contradictions as part of a flawed record. But if the Bible is God’s Word, and if God is all knowing and all powerful, it stands to reason we should be able to trust the Bible.

How Did We Get the Bible?

Some people think the Bible was all written down about the same time, copied and distributed. But the Bible is not “instant” Scripture and it wasn’t all written down around the same time.

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Teach Your Kids to Face Hard Things Through These Bible Stories

We know in this life we, and our children will have hard times. One of the best gifts we can give our children is resilience.

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10 Things Everyone Should Know About a Christian View of Homosexuality

Why traditional Christians believe as they do regarding gender, sexuality, marriage, and the family.

How Do I Interpret the Bible?

Unlike some postmodern approaches to written texts that claim there really is no objective meaning to writing throughout the centuries, Christians have interpreted the Bible and continuously drawn out Christianity’s essential foundations.

What Must I Do to be Saved?

What Must I Do to Be Saved?

Strict adherence to a list of do’s and don’ts is not what Christian salvation is about. Romans 3:20 reads, “no one will be declared righteous in his [God’s] sight by observing the law.”

Who do you say I am?

Without Christology, there is no Christianity. Jesus is at the center of the Christian faith. Knowing about Christ is essential, as well as personal.