I rsquo m often given the privilege of leading spiritual retreats Getting away for a few days to pray and reflect can be deeply enriching and during the program I sometimes ask participants to do an exercise ldquo Imagine your life is over and your obituary is published in the paper What would you like it to say rdquo Some attendees change their life rsquo s priorities as a result aiming to finish their lives well Second Timothy contains the last known written words of the apostle Paul Though probably only in his sixties and though having faced death before [... more]

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Amos was an overbearing extrovert and Danny was a loner wracked with self-doubt Somehow these eccentric geniuses became best friends They spent a decade laughing and learning together One day their work would receive a Nobel Prize But Danny tired of Amos rsquo s self-centered ways and told him they were no longer friends Three days later Amos called with terrible news Doctors had found cancer and given him six months to live Danny rsquo s heart broke ldquo We rsquo re friends rdquo he said ldquo whatever you think we are rdquo Paul was a hard-nosed visionary and Barnabas [... more]

In an article on mentoring Hannah Schell explains that mentors need to support challenge and inspire but ldquo first and perhaps foremost a good mentor sees you Recognition not in terms of awards or publicity but in the sense of simply lsquo being seen rsquo is a basic human need rdquo People need to be recognized known and believed in In the New Testament Barnabas whose name means ldquo Son of Encouragement rdquo had a knack for ldquo seeing rdquo people around him In Acts he was willing to give Saul a chance when the other disciples ldquo were all [... more]

Continuing with a description of the Antichrist What will he really be like [... more]

Four challenges we face in the course of doing God's will understanding God's provision for each challenge based on Cor - CLICK HEREto ORDER this -part series on MP [... more]

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MRM's Aaron Shafovaloff talks with MRM founder Bill McKeever about his debate with LDS apologist Kwaku El and provides some commentary To watch the debate go to https www youtube com watch v DMAKQ g zT [... more]

What is your response to Beth Moore saying that complementary theology has paved the way for sexual abuse in the SBC Length [... more]

In the first two chapters of his letter to Christians in Rome the apostle Paul establishes that all people are sinners and separated from God spanning the spectrum from non-believing Gentiles to religious Jews Paul describes what leads the former group non-believing Gentiles into downward spiraling degrees of sexual immorality and other sins is suppressing the truth and not acknowledging God v That makes sense reject the authority of God and man is the authority and goes a long way to explain why American society today is depraved full of strife arrogant inventors of evil and gives hearty approval to [... more]

Last week we discussed the stunning announcement by Josh Harris former pastor of a prominent church and popular Christian speaker and author that he is getting divorced and no longer considers himself a Christian Since then he marched in a homosexual pride event in Vancouver We talked about his bestselling book I Kissed Dating Good-Bye which advanced the courtship movement over the date-and-break-up culture and how negative feedback led Harris to reconsider and renounce the book a few years ago [... more]

TCW Short Take What is the example of Jesus regarding social justice Length by David Wheaton [... more]

TCW Short Take How were you saved out of the Prosperity Gospel movement by David Wheaton [... more]