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Ligon Duncan endorses With One Voice

I am grateful that Pastor Ligon Dunan has added this endorsement to With One Voice:
“The Bible gives us loads of instruction for marriage – what it is, who it is for, what it is for, and how to conduct ourselves as married men and women. But how do we move from singleness to marriage? Is the answer to ditch the “dating model” and go for courtship? Do we roll back the clock and re-institute arranged marriages? Publishers have been cranking out books with all sorts of directions to help Christians navigate the treacherous waters between the buoys of singleness and marriage, and I know of none that is more clear, concise and helpful than With One Voice. Here is a practical book that neither sacrifices a proper emphasis on the glory of God in our relationships, nor underplays the importance of the Bible’s teaching on manhood and womanhood.”
J. Ligon Duncan III, PhD
Senior Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
President, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
Past Moderator, General Assembly, Presbyterian Church in America
Convener, Twin Lakes Fellowship
Adjunct Professor, Reformed Theological Seminary
Chairman, Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
For a full list of endorsements, click here.

November 2, 2006 in Practical Ministry, With One Voice | Comment

Michael Medved on the John Kerry Gaffe

By now you’ve probably heard that John Kerry stuck his foot in his mouth yet again: “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, you try to be smart, you can do well. And if you don’t you get stuck in Iraq.” But his “apology” today is evasive at best: A Kerry aide said the senator was supposed to say, “I can’t overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you’re intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq.”
Thankfully, Michael Medved helpfully explains why Kerry’s blunder is significant.
1. He clearly meant it.
“If Kerry had meant his comments as another jab at Bush, why the gasps? And why not any attempt to explain his lame attempt at humor on the spot by adding, for instance, words that specified, ‘and a prime example of somebody who didn’t do his homework, and didn’t try to be smart, and who didn’t do well, is George W. Bush….’ or some comments to that effect.”
2. Kerry’s Comments Highlighted the Democrats’ Longstanding (and uncomfortable) Position on the Wrong Side of the Nation’s Key Cultural Divides.
3. Kerry’s Words Expose the Essentially Fraudulent Nature of Contemporary Liberalism: Expressing Disrespect for the Very Americans the Left Claims to Defend.
4. You Can’t Portray the Troops as Pitiable Victims and Still Say You Support Them in their Mission.