Truth & Love Blog
It Takes a Congregation
Learn Christ’s vision for your life in and through the church.
This Week’s Top Five: The Best of the Best Around the Christian Net (9/17/10)
The Best of the Best Around the Net links you to the top five Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living.
Grace Greater Than All Our Sin
When your guilt over your sin overwhelms you, what do you do? Where do you turn? Where do you find grace greater than all your sin?
Top 100 Fastest Growing, Largest Churches Revealed
Peter Elliott at Everyday Christian reports that LifeWay Research and Outreach Magazine have published their annual issue charting the 100 largest and fastest growing churches in America.
Satan’s Deception and Sins’ Deceit, by John Newton
Since Satan masquerades as an angel of light, it should be no surprise that he attempts to deceive us into thinking that sin wears a pleasing face. Tim Challies introduced me to these insightful words by John Newton about Satan’s deception and sin’s deceit.
Let’s Roll! Lisa Beamer, Todd Beamer, and Spiritual Friendship
In a spiritual crisis, what does a spiritual friend look like? How do spiritual friends turn you to Christ in a crisis? Lisa Beamer’s “Let’s Roll” provides a beautiful portrait.
This Week’s Top Five: The Best of the Best Around the Net (9/10/10)
The Best of the Best Around the Net links you to the top five Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living.
The Road to Hope: Perpetua’s Story
Here we witness not only Perpetua’s courageous example of persistence, but also her model of biblical confrontation. She provides riveting testimony to Christ’s power at work in the inner life of a Christian woman whose spirit could never be overpowered.
Not Your Father’s Church History
A fair and balanced narrative of church history shows that women have always spoken God’s truth in love to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth. For two-thousand years women have engaged in gospel conversations to minister to hurting and hardened people. It’s time for church history once again also to be Her-story.
Hawking or God: Who Do You Believe?
In my post Stephen Hawking: Brilliant But Foolish, I shared what God thinks of Stephen Hawking. In his upcoming book, The Grand Design, Hawking tells what he thinks of God. So, in today’s post, readers have a life-altering, eternal choice to make: Hawking or God: who do you believe?
