Respond and Engage! Paul will be speaking at the 16th Annual Michigan Reformation Conference in Flint, Michigan on Saturday, October 26th (10am – 4pm). More information and free registration.<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n GUEST: Kathryn Butler<\/strong> (MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) is a trauma surgeon who is board certified in surgical critical care and served on the faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Butler is the author of Between Life and Death: A Gospel-Centered Guide to End-of-Life Medical Care<\/a><\/strong>. The Breath of Life: Should Christians Agree to Ventilator Support?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4 Principles for Making Critical End-of-Life Decisions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The device is activated by making the sign of the cross and will keep track of a user’s rosary progress. “When activated, the user has the possibility to choose either to pray the standard rosary, a contemplative Rosary and different kinds of thematic rosaries that will be updated every year,” the Vatican News said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “The project brings together the best of the Church\u2019s spiritual tradition and the latest advances of the technological world,” the Vatican News said. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n As long as Christians assume we are still living in Christendom, the church will continue to decline in the West, no matter how ferociously Christians fight to maintain power and privilege. If anything, the harder Christians fight, the more precipitous the decline will be, for cultural power and privilege will come at an increasingly high price. Christians will either accommodate until the faith becomes almost unrecognizable, or they will isolate until their faith becomes virtually invisible.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing short of a change of church culture will suffice\u2014from a culture of entertainment, politics, personality, and program to a culture of discipleship. Such a radical change will require patience, steadiness, and purposefulness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019d love to see an upsurge in passion for holiness. I think it is there in a lot of younger pastors, but I think another branch are much more eager to look hip, look cool, look like they\u2019ve watched the latest thing, they can use the latest lingo. And frankly, while that makes audiences laugh, and think you\u2019re kind of cool, it doesn\u2019t do much eternal good. It won\u2019t make any difference in five years, twenty years, thirty years. What will make a difference in people\u2019s lives when they are dying? That you were cool? Give me a break! That will not make any difference! They will want you at their bedside if they know you have been walking with God, if you\u2019ve been spending time in the presence of the living God and can say something to them in their need when their kid is dying, when their wife is dying. When you can say something, because they\u2019ve seen you authentic in the pulpit dealing with the Bible faithfully. And I just think the Puritans\u2026they tasted like that, they just tasted like that. They weren\u2019t glib. They weren\u2019t trying to be fitting in to their culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Taken from Puritan: All of Life to the Glory of God<\/em>, Media Gratiae, 2019 LISTEN LIVE AT 1:00 PM ET Respond and Engage!TALK TO PAUL ON-AIR: 313.272.5600 Michigan Reformation Conference Paul will be speaking at the 16th Annual Michigan Reformation Conference in Flint, Michigan on Saturday, October 26th (10am – 4pm). More information and … Continue reading
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