Matt and Nancy Heerema

Vote your conscience not your… wait what?

I’ve been a little perplexed by a sentiment I’ve seen rolling around the intarwebs recently… “Vote your conscience, not your religion.”

I wholeheartedly agree with the statement “Vote your conscience.”  That is how we are to vote.  Not by party lines, not according to media hype, not according to a resigned sense of “if ya can’t [...]

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“Conservative” book makes it into Boston U. classroom

I was pretty much shocked to read this article from the Sovereign Grace blog about how Joshua Harris’ “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” has been used in classwork at a liberal school like Boston University to discuss modesty as a virtue. Then again, I have to think that there is a chance that a least [...]

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Abstinence and Temperance

Abstinence is the virtue of the weak, temperance is the virtue of the strong.

- A.B. Bruce – The Training of the Twelve

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