Only the Orthodox Will Survive; Dear Retired Pastor: Off with the Slippers, On with the Boots...more

Only the Orthodox Will Survive 

In the 1990s, a number of Christian public intellectuals began to take note of the secularization of church-related higher education in America. Many of these scholars reflected on the powerful trends that were slowly removing the “soul” from Christian schools—something that proceeds today with alarming momentum.

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Dear Retired Pastor: Off with the Slippers, On with the Boots   Be encouraged that you have valuable experience and more to offer than you realize. Younger pastors may not have learned in seminary how to handle criticism, or to lose close friends over doctrinal or ministry issues, or to have their families living in a fishbowl. But you’ve been there. You know what perspective and wisdom to offer. You know how to be a listening ear. You know how to come alongside and pray.

Years ago a friend said to me, “I want you to finish well.” I gave it some thought and asked myself, What does finishing well look like? Here’s what I concluded: finishing well is finishing with the fewest regrets. And in retirement, you’ll never regret putting your boots back on.

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Beware of the Familiar...Be careful that Scripture does not become so familiar that it loses its punch  If the Word of God has in that sense become too familiar to us, then we need to get on our knees and ask God to soften us and speak to us afresh from the living Word. In fact, a prayer like that would not be a bad thing to offer to God EVERY time we open our Bible.

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Pro-life Canadian health workers say they won’t be forced to participate in abortion, euthanasia  Pro-life healthcare workers in Alberta have said they will not be complicit “to murder” and go along with a plan by their provincial medical regulatory college that aims to mandate all healthcare workers in the province, including physicians and their assistants, to be in effect forced to be complicit in abortions or assisted suicides.

“Many physicians are ethically opposed to newer aspects of medicine, such as MAiD (euthanasia), as well as more established controversial medical services, such as abortion,” Alberta physician Shauna Burkholder said in a public feedback response to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) proposal to update its official Standards of Practice with new wording that would target pro-life doctors and nurses.