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Would You Choose Your Spouse or Child?

A New Zealand man was forced to make a terrible choice when his wife and son were trapped in a sinking car. He chose to save his wife, and their 13 year old son drowned. Man had to choose: save wife or son In the months prior to our wedding, J and I attended weekly pre-marital counseling sessions with our pastor. We actually covered this topic one week, and I was surprised to see that there is a Christian answer to this question. Who would you choose if you were in this situation? What would you say the Christian answer is? ...

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Devotional Christian Books Giveaway

One of my new favorite spiritual blogs, Devotional Christian, is giving away 22 Christian books! Go check out the promotion page for the full list of books. To enter for a chance to win, write a blog post, tweet, or post a note to your church's website about Devotional Christian. Then fill out this form, and that's it! A winner will be chosen via random.org on November 8th. Good luck to everyone who enters! ...

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Accountability

The last time I sought help for my depression, I went through a slew of psychologists and psychiatrists. Having grown up in the church, I even visited a few Christian therapists. The one I ended up choosing was not Christian; rather, she was a prim and proper Jewish woman with a smooth, articulate voice that managed to cut through all the BS in my life. Unlike other therapists who were prone to asking, "So how does that make you feel?" or "What do you think that means?" she actually analyzed my thoughts and reactions, often giving her opinion and advice on top of my jumbled interpretation of events. She was not afraid to chastise me, which made me shed quite a few...

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Book Review: The Case for Christ

(I have been posting more book reviews lately for a good reason: I will be moving soon and am currently going through my mountains of books in an effort to divide them into "keep" and "donate" piles. Obviously, there are certain titles that hold dear places in my heart, and I cannot help but re-read them and share them with you.) In light of Easter, I decided to write about a popular piece of Christian literature: Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. I first discovered the field of Christian apologetics, which, according to this Wikipedia article, is "the field of study concerned with the systematic defense of Christianity," in my early teenage years and it has always been a...

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