Father & Daughter Have Kid...TOGETHER!!!

This world is getting weirder, more confused morally and farther from God's standards (click here and here to read more about this incestuous couple).

Listen to that internal shock of disgust as you read the articles. That is your in-born moral "compass," God's law written on the heart of every human being, Christian or not (Romans 2:14-15), telling you something is wrong though you may not be able to formulate an argument against it just yet. For more on the importance of moral intuitions, click here.

Pregnant Man? Not Really!

Welcome to the brave new world! (read about him here). Regardless of how a person looks, talks, identifies oneself, the hormonal injections, sexual orientation, relationship status, etc. this does not help the cause of gender neutrality or equality (that there is no difference between genders, that all gender is is a social construction).

In fact, it proves the exact opposite of what he was hoping for and has been fighting for in his personal life--namely, identification as a man. What it does is give incontrovertible evidence that though he thinks he's a man, he really isn't!

Divorce in the Bible

Though the controversy has died down, last month saw a bit of a firestorm ignite over the Bible's view of divorce when Christianity Today devoted their cover and a 4-page article to the issue of divorce.

In summary, the author David Instone-Brewer argues that the Bible gives us four grounds for divorce that make it acceptable in God's eyes: adultery, abandonment (the two traditional grounds), abuse and neglect (emotional or physical).

I found out about it at a staff meeting last month when we spent about an hour talking about it. Within a couple days, I saw posts about it on blogs and responses to the article by such prominent evangelicals as John Piper (which, by the way, Dr. Instone-Brewer responded to here), Al Mohler (click here to a page where you can download his radio show on this topic) and Andreas Kostenberger (here and here).

I wanted to make you aware of this ongoing debate, which though it seems to me at least that it's died down in our circles, has gained national attention thanks to a new article about it in Time Magazine online here.

Do You Struggle with Family Worship?

If you struggle with what to do for family worship time, here is a short and helpful article that gives some good advice by Don Whitney, the author of such excellent books as Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, How Can I Be Sure I'm a Christian, and 10 Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health.