More stops on the WWW

Here are some more links to some beneficial, or maybe just interesting web sites:

Accountability – I truly believe that having an accountability partner (someone who will frequently ask you about your spiritual life/someone who you can call when you are struggling in temptation) is a great grace of God in developing your spiritual life. Randy Alcorn gives some practical helps to accountability partners in his article, “Accountability groups: Men helping men in their walk with God”

Believe it or not – Have you ever heard the counterfeit money illustration? The one where what federal agents do to recognize counterfeit money is to study the real bills, not counterfeits? The illustration is often used to make the point that in order to recognize false teaching, you don’t study all the false teaching out there, you study the Bible and then you’ll be able to sniff out false teaching. Is this illustration true?? Is this really what federal agents do?? Tim Challies actually went and interviewed an expert in counterfeit currency. Read about this here (part 1) and here (part 2) .

Young people – there are two blogs that might be helpful for teens and their parents. The Rebelution blog gives this definition of their name and purpose: “The official definition of the 'rebelution' is ‘a teenage rebellion against the low expectations of an ungodly culture’." And the other blog comes from the folks at Five-15 about their parent and teen ministry that, “is about helping teens and their parents live not for themselves, but for Him.”

Defending the truth – what would you do if you were put on the Larry King show and asked about the exclusivity of Christ... that He is the only way of salvation?? Here’s one prominent pastors failure, and here is another who stood courageously in defending the gospel. Or, how about being on Larry King with a panel of ministers who support the ordination of homosexuals into the gospel ministry? Here is an excellent, gracious, courageous, truth-driven response.