How to Give (and Receive) Godly Counsel
by Sarah J. Bracey One of my favorite service opportunities is to help out with the 2-3 year olds in the nursery at church. Never a dull moment with these little ones! I love to talk with them each week about God and put together some craft or coloring page that goes along with our lesson. Don’t let the glue sticks and safety scissors fool you. Sometimes these crafts can actually be quite complicated and require some skilled hands to...
Book Recommendations (Spring 2015)
School’s out for summer! Whether we spent the last several months slogging through assigned reading, reading students’ assignments, or helping our children with homework, we all feel a sense of relief when the semester finally ends. However, don’t let that relief translate into a lazy reading regimen! Below we at the Helwys Society Forum have provided some of our recent finds and favorite repeat-reads from the last several months....
The Sound of Silence: The Call of a Neglected Discipline
by Rebekah Morgan Recently I joined my college’s choir in making a recording of our hour-long program. High-powered microphones were brought in, and we were educated in the ways of live recording. The key, we learned, was total silence, in order to avoid unwanted noise on our recording. So we turned off the air-conditioner and settled in for three hours of silence. At first, the stillness was uncomfortable; we fiddled with our clothes...
A Virtuous Wife … Who Can Find?
by Megan Morgan Recently, I was having a discussion with a young lady in college. She was asking me several questions about life in general, and more specifically about marriage. “Is it true that life only gets busier and more hectic after college?” she asked. I responded that there will always be different seasons of life. Some seasons will be busy and hectic, but in whatever season she should keep Christ as the center and try her...
Does God Care About Justice?
Recently in the news, stories came out about two separate men (both now 93 years of age) who are being indicted for a combined 470,000 counts of accessory to murder in the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp.[1] Elizabeth Kolbert writes in The New Yorker about a delay in some of the cases.[2] She writes that Germany’s central office for investigating Nazi crimes is looking to build cases against fifty former Auschwitz guards. Unfortunately,...
Five-Dollar Couches and the Church’s Future
What is the one staple that you can find in virtually every youth group across America? You’re right: the (overly) pre-owned couch. Whether you’re in Idaho or Illinois, California, or Connecticut, it would seem that the perennial signature of any well-christened youth room is an old couch. One can only imagine the stories behind the acquisition of these couches. For some, the youth minister bought a couch from the local thrift sore,...
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