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I am a week late on posting this, but here is a link to the latest Social Conservative Review.  As mentioned before there are news topics worthy of reflection that that mainstream media never covers. Below are my favorite or most stimulating articles, if you only have  few minutes to read: Here are 2 articles on businesses being forced to violate their consciences: a t-shirt printer and a wedding card maker. A Great article on the fight against including gender…

If you are looking for some way to reflect on your marriage and its health this year, or to get a marriage tuneup as part of your new year’s resolution process, Kevin Deyoung over at TGC put together 15 simple questions that might be an aid to your reflection, prayer life or ways to stimulate discussion with your spouse.  Here you go: Here are 15 questions to help you and your spouse take the relational temperature of your marriage: 1.…

An EPIC Prayer                   We have found this prayer to speak powerfully to churches on the Pathway. It invites each one of us to ask God to make the changes in us that he wants to make in our church. Listen carefully as you reflect on this prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me to understand that my church is composed of people like me. I help make it what it is. It will be friendly if I am. It will…

All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and…

Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the…

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 1 Corinthians 12:4-7 Paul in several passages points to the principle underscored in this passage. All believers have a variety of gifts,…

Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons. These are the twelve he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter), James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means “sons of thunder”), Andrew, Philip,…

I received this update from a man who works in the Ukraine that I met last year at a homeschool conference.  Most of us aren’t aware, or have forgotten that part of the Ukraine is in a serious conflict wanting to secede and join Russia.  The hostilities have displaced 1.75 million people.  Here is some front line news from Christians trying to serve people on the front lines: “In the village Gnutovo we visited a family living only 500 meters…