Well, there was supposed to be Presidential candidate debate tonight. But not anymore.
I have a better idea: What about watching a civil-minded discussion among two Christian leaders, who take very different positions on the 2020 U.S. Presidential election? Eric Metaxas and David French offer a good model for how Christians can engage in a difficult conversation on a controversial topic, without descending into vitriol, which seems to be the norm these days in social media. Recorded just a few weeks ago at John Brown University, a Christian college in Arkansas. We need more discussions like these, as it will help us as believers to have better conversations on the most important matters of all, namely, that of sharing the Gospel of Christ with a needy world.
October 22nd, 2020 at 3:57 pm
Was not expecting this viewpoint from John Piper. Worth thinking about:
“this is a long-overdue article attempting to explain why I remain baffled that so many Christians consider the sins of unrepentant sexual immorality (porneia), unrepentant boastfulness (alazoneia), unrepentant vulgarity (aischrologia), unrepentant factiousness (dichostasiai), and the like, to be only toxic for our nation, while policies that endorse baby-killing, sex-switching, freedom-limiting, and socialistic overreach are viewed as deadly……
….. In fact, I think it is a drastic mistake to think that the deadly influences of a leader come only through his policies and not also through his person.”
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/policies-persons-and-paths-to-ruin
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October 24th, 2020 at 1:57 pm
C. Michael Patton contra John Piper. A thoughtful counter-perspective:
https://credohouse.org/blog/could-trump-be-a-christ-figue-a-response-to-john-piper-about-trump
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November 6th, 2020 at 8:55 pm
Just learned this today. Apparently 80 Pro-Life candidates in the Democratic Party won their respective races, during Election Day earlier this week (pretty much all at the state level). Never would have guessed that! :
https://runprolife.org/true-blue-list/
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January 14th, 2021 at 12:41 pm
David French has a lot to say about the kind of stupidity and deceit Evangelicals have endorsed in recent years. Character counts and the truth matters, always. https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/only-the-church-can-truly-defeat
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April 25th, 2023 at 11:25 am
Glad to see Ministry Watch challenging certain Christian spokespersons who perpetuate lies on a public forum without accountability:
https://ministrywatch.com/truth-matters-huge-fox-news-settlement-raises-stakes-for-christians-who-promoted-election-lies/
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