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Should Christians attend a same-sex wedding?— Alistair Begg’s answer and why it matters to us all

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Should Christians attend a same-sex wedding ceremony? Postmodern culture says that love and approval are the same thing. (They are not). So, the culture says that we cannot criticize someone’s lifestyle choices and love them at the same time. Therefore, the culture says, to decline attending a same sex marriage ceremony would be unloving. Homophobic. Hateful. That is not only a cultural conclusion. Progressive Christianity buys into that answer, too. But to the Christian parent…

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“Preacher Don,” the mentor God knew I needed, and embracing the inevitable unpredictability of pastoral ministry

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I was gripping the handle of a hand truck, balancing a washing machine, when my mother-in-law called out from the house, “Bob, you have a phone call. It’s Don Ingle.” My wife and I had just departed Texas and returned to North Carolina. Except for some remote work, seminary was finished, so we were seeking God’s open door for ministry, hoping to serve a church as its Pastor. In the thick humidity of August 1992,…

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