Douglas Comin

Comic relief: church bulletin bloopers

You may have seen some of these before, but if you need a sanctified chuckle, check out these actual mistakes found in church bulletins...Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those...

Even Gandalf can't make truth disappear

I don't know how it is with you, but if I stay somewhere as a guest, and I happen to find on a shelf or in a drawer a book that contains material that is critical of evangelical Christians...

A Reformation Day study: worship and the gospel

“I know how difficult it is to persuade the world that God disapproves of all modes of worship not expressly sanctioned by His Word. The opposite persuasion which cleaves to them, being seated, as it were, in their very...

The two parties - some things never change

[The brief article below was originally printed in The Christian Statesman in November of 1868. One hundred and forty years later, we still face essentially the same situation in our political system.]THE TWO PARTIESTwo political parties today proffer their...

Life Restored: an interview with J. Jackson of the Christian parody band ApologetiX

Question: What do you get when you cross Weird Al Yankovic with Billy Graham?Answer: J. Jackson and the amazing Bible-based parodies of his band, ApologetiX.I recently had the opportunity to sit down for an interview with J...

U.N. resolution to outlaw Christian evangelism

Did you ever think you would see the day when sharing your faith with a Muslim was against the law? If a new "Defamation of Religions" resolution passes in the United Nations, Christian evangelism will be effectively criminalized...

Keeping your vineyard

Here is a compelling observation by Hudson Taylor, founder of China Inland Mission, commenting on Song of Solomon 1:6 – “…they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.&rdquo...

Values clarification

In one of his more recent attempts to foment class warfare and play the politics of envy, President Barack Obama addressed tha masses on Thursday from the White House to explain why his "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg would...

What matters most

The success of every temptation that the devil brings against men depends upon their putting the object of the temptation above God in their affections. When Satan can convince you that some coveted object is better for you than...

The Christian at work (part 5)

This will be the final post in our series on the Christian at work. In previous installments, we have seen the following principles that ought to guide a believer's attitudes and actions in his vocation: The principle of industry...

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