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Book Review: How to Eat Your Bible
The other day I finished Nate Pickowicz’s tremendous work How to Eat Your Bible: A Simple Approach to Learning and Loving the Word of God. This short book–about 135 pages counting the appendix–is a straight-to-the-point primer on how to begin to love the Bible. As the subtitle suggests, the book takes a very simple approach…
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Responding to 3 Common Arguments by Pro-Choicers
Abortion is a very sensitive issue. This is undoubtedly true, as it can create fiction even amongst the closest people. However, abortion is also a very important issue—it’s not one we can just not talk about. We must address it. Pro-lifers, including myself, have made arguments against abortion for years, and they have all remained…
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Abortion and the Image of God
“If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field…it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.” — John Calvin Abortion is the pre-meditated killing of an unborn child. In other words, it is murder.…
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Crucified to this World
“On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid,…
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Does the Love of Christ Control You?
We wouldn’t want to admit it, but we as humans are controlled by myriad of things. Whether it be social media, money, food, sex, popularity, etc., our hearts are prone to be controlled by something. Or as the popular hymn puts it: “our hearts are prone to wander.” Matter of fact, our hearts were wired…
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Book Announcement
Gospel Smugness: Displaying Christlike Character in Evangelism COMING JULY 5! In the coming weeks, once everything is officially done, I will announce the Amazon order. (You will be able to pre-order the e-book but not the paperback.)
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Update on Gospel Smugness
An update on the progress of my book!
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The Grace of White-out
I like to consider myself a pretty organized person. There are times when I can’t proceed with anything work-related unless the glaring pile of dishes are remedied, or until any other household chore is accomplished. Call it willful noble procrastination, if you like.
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An Unhealthy Craving
Christian: don’t you ever get tired of arguing and being in the center of a sin-saturated debate?
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Faith Requires Knowledge
Many skeptics claim that Christianity is a blind faith religion. That is, it’s simply a leap in the dark and requires no intellect. If you care to place a name on this claim, it’s called the God of the gaps theory, which basically says any gaps in scientific knowledge is evidence for the existence of…
Blake Long 