Concern takes wise action and prays dependently. Worry, or over-concern, thinks and acts as though everything is either up to you or completely out of control, and prays desperately, if at all.
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Creation Stewardship: For the Glory of God and the Good of our Children
Our stewardship of creation is a task delegated to us by God. It is loving, compassionate, pro-human life, God-honouring and it can provide great opportunities for sharing our faith with others.
Solas Recommends: “Thank God for Western Values”
"Because of Christianity, wrote Friedrich Nietzche,"the measure of a man's compassion for the lowly and suffering come to be the measure of the loftiness of his soul."
A Parent’s Guide to the 5 Sceptics Who Want to Shame Your Kids for Being Christian
Here are the five most common sceptics who want to shame your kids for being Christian.
GENEXIS
Paul Downes QC has enlisted a phenomenal line-up of speakers to address some of the greatest reasons to believe in the existence of God, such as the design of the universe, and the human desire for goodness, justice, morality and meaning.
Care, Equality & Freedom: What the Atheist-Psychologist Jonathan Haidt can teach us about Christian Apologetics.
In today’s culture, people who possess no language of fairness, or compassion, or equality lose every time
Does ‘Matter’ Really Matter to God?
If we try and pretend matter doesn’t matter, we get sucked into an unconscious materialism, we treat God’s earth without the respect God gives it, we cease worshipping God with our whole being, and we fail to enjoy God’s material blessings – which are not found in owning and possessing, but in enjoying, receiving and sharing God’s gift of creation
Grace versus Karma
Do we reap what we sow? Do we get what we deserve when we die?Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism, India’s contribution to the world, teach that our thoughts and actions have consequences, namely rewards or punishments. Goodness leads to rewards and bad thoughts and actions lead to pain and suffering. This, in a nutshell, is Karma.
Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?
Relational, knowable, love, suffering. And here’s the problem: the Qur’an either ignores or directly denies each of those core aspects of God’s identity
Totali-shame-ism and the End of Mercy
And here’s the thing. There’s no forgiveness, no mercy, no forgetting. Just a relentless drive to judge and denounce.