by Tom Strode WASHINGTON (BP)–Researchers in China have shown that induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are as powerful as embryonic stem cells while avoiding their ethical problems.

   William Wilberforce, the great English social reformer, understood the social benefits of religious faith. His convictions motivated his (eventually successful) campaign to ban the slave trade. In this extract, he argues that the Church is more than simply moral leaven. On the contrary, God rescues nations where the Church repents and prays.

   David Jeremiah Posted on Jul 24, 2009   EL CAJON, Calif. (BP)–Our victories are gained on our knees. As we turn ourselves, our plans and our problems over to God, He intervenes. When we bow before Him, we’re acknowledging Him as our “Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.”

   Chuck Bentley Posted on Jul 22, 2009   GAINESVILLE, Ga. (BP)—It’s important to teach your children about money and how to manage it. But even more important than understanding the basics of making and spending money, children need to learn what the Bible says about money and how it affects our spiritual lives. How we handle money is an outside indicator of our inside spiritual condition. It has a direct link to our relationship with the Lord. Many times, the only thing children learn about money is that “it doesn’t grow on trees.” But how often do children hear […]

Pastor John Scripture Reference: Revelation 22

  Dr. David Powlison When I counsel with people who struggle with deep feelings of shame, guilt, and regret, I sometimes suggest that they design a personalized liturgy. In what follows, I walk through the example of a woman who has had an abortion, and all that led up to that choice, and all that follows in someone whose conscience is alive. But you can tailor it to whatever struggle you or another person needs to deal with. Where is your struggle? Is it temper or bitterness? Sexual immorality? Amnesia toward God? Gluttony, laziness or greed? Judgmental words or thoughts? Gossip? […]

   Author Richard Louv believes that America’s children are now suffering from a syndrome he identifies as “nature-deficit disorder.” In his new book, Last Child in the Woods, Louv suggests that the current generation of American children knows the Discovery Channel better than their own backyards–and that this loss of contact with nature leads to impoverished lives and stunted imagination.

   by Lisa Huddleston    “Therefore, through Him let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of our lips that confess His name. Don’t neglect to do good and to share, for God is pleased with such sacrifices” (Hebrews 13:15-16).

Pastor John Scripture Refs: II Peter 3:1-13 and Revelation 21:1-8

   During the Second World War it was necessary for the British government to take control over much of the economy to concentrate all its effort in the fight against Nazi Germany. At that time many thought that the central planning of the British economy should be continued after the war in singular pursuit of other objectives, such as the betterment of the working class. In this passage from his book The Road to Serfdom, written in England during the war years and published in 1944, the Nobel-prize winning economist F. A. Hayek explains, however, why a state-controlled and centrally […]