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 One of my first cases as a counseling intern in Philadelphia was with a 12-year-old girl who was cutting herself and involved in a lesbian threesome. I worked at the Christian Counseling Educational Foundation, and her mom brought her in along with a baby sister who crawled around the room and knocked over a floor lamp during our first session.

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 Letter to a Struggling Gay Christian (by WRF Board Member Dr. Augustus Nicodemus Lopes
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Dear Joe,

1. I hope this letter finds you well.

I met your pastor last week, and he was very upset.

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As I grew up in an Iowa town, we were all pretty much the same.  All white though sunburned, all with jobs, no one in any danger. 

First, full disclosure.  I don’t know anything about what’s going on.  But for that matter, neither do you.  That information is being closely held by the intelligence community and by the Muckety-Mucks of the American government. 

Wishy Washy Wrathy Wrathy Atonement Atoney

I’m a Presbyterian Church guy, but I’m of the A kind, not the USA kind (follow me?).

At the 41st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America this past June, during the presentation of the Study Committee Report on Insider Movements, the hottest issue was the concern of the use of “Allah” for God and the possible confusion or identity of the God of the Bible with Allah of the Quran. 

The material immediately below is taken from the volume, REFORMED MEANS MISSIONAL: FOLLOWING JESUS INTO THE WORLD. This volume was compiled by the WRF and will be published by New Growth Press in mid-August, 2013. New Growth's website is here - http://www.newgrowthpress.com/

Recent allegations of sexual abuse and cover-up within a well known international ministry and subsequent public statements by several evangelical leaders have angered and distressed many, both inside and outside of the Church.

The material immediately below is taken from the volume, REFORMED MEANS MISSIONAL: FOLLOWING JESUS INTO THE WORLD. This volume was compiled by the WRF and will be published by New Growth Press in mid-August, 2013. New Growth's website is here - http://www.newgrowthpress.com/

Remember a few weeks ago how North Korea’s current Dear Leader, Kim Jung Un, threatened to launch a nuclear war against South Korea and even the United States?

Theological training is becoming more impersonal than ever before.  We can submit applications to institutions online and once enrolled we can submit our assignments online.  Online theological courses offer immense scope to those seeking to upgrade their education. 

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Latin America is not known as a bastion of Reformed thinking.  Woody Lajara and I were in Costa Rica at the end of January for a week of teaching Pauline epistles in San Jose.  For the past three or four years we have been using  III Millennium study courses produced by WRF member Richard Pratt in Orlando, Florida,