The Canon Journal

All of Christ for All of Life

No Mere Mortals

Immortals do no insignificant things. There is no extraneous dirty dish washed, no floor scrubbed, no encouraging word given, no comforting hug extended, no day of hard work offered that...

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Do Not Give Your Strength to Women

The book of Proverbs ends with King Lemuel giving an oracle that his mother taught him. It begins with the question that many mothers have asked many sons over the...

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Love and Respect

As you know, the Bible instructs husbands to love their wives and wives to respect their husbands. As it turns out, these commands are also ordered to the weaker sides of...

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Gay Mirage & Homosexuality

We have been inundated with PRIDE parades and flags and now television shows and commercials, and maybe you have even met people in your family or in the community who...

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The Politics of the Family

A race of clones or robots would act and think in the exact same ways and progress would be absolutely grinding. This is one of the great ironies of “progressives”...

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Christianity and Marrying Early as Punk Rock

 “Biblical norms are the new punk rock. Get married young, have a pile of kids, work hard, confess sins, forgive quickly, read good stories, laugh a lot, be faithful to...

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What is Family For? (Part 2)

It is not an accident that having exhorted households to be ordered to Christ, Paul immediately turns to our cosmic struggle against the rulers of darkness in this world (Eph....

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The Single Person's Role in the Church

There is no gender-neutral place for “singles” in the church. But there are necessary and crucial roles for men and women in the church, and those roles are broadly described under the...

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