http://www.visionforumministries.org/ Vision Forum Ministries is dedicated to the restoration of Christian family culture. en Copyright 2008 Tue, 13 May 2008 12:50:34 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss God has called men to rise to leadership in the family, the church, and the state. The 2008 Witherspoon School on Law and Public Policy will feature a distinguished faculty and will include important training on the biblical foundations of law and public policy and the relationship of Christianity to the Constitution and the American legal system. In addition, our special symposiums will address the defining issues of the 2008 elections, the future of the Second Amendment, and the defense of the local church. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/prepare_yourself_to_speak_in_t.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/prepare_yourself_to_speak_in_t.xml News and Reports Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:34:00 -0600 The evening of April 14, 1912, was both the darkest and brightest night in modern maritime history. Even as 1,522 drowned in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, brave men and boys on board the *Titanic* saved hundreds of other lives by honoring the command "women and children first," giving their own lives in exchange. Join us on April 14, 2008 for a special evening of tribute as we honor the sacrifice of these noble men. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/a_night_to_remember_1.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/a_night_to_remember_1.xml News and Reports Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:14:05 -0600 The San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival (SAICFF) has unveiled plans to give more than $100,000 to their annual "Best of Festival" Jubilee winner, the single largest cash prize in the world to be awarded by any film festival -- secular or Christian. Doug Phillips, founder of the SAICFF, made the announcement earlier today at an official press conference at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/christian_filmmakers_to_receiv.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/christian_filmmakers_to_receiv.xml News and Reports Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:57:52 -0600 The year 2008 may prove to include the most significant Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy of the last decade. This "election year," Witherspoon will address many of they key legal, ethical, and political issues facing the nation and the Church as America prepares to elect and install a new political regime. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/witherspoon_school_to_address.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/witherspoon_school_to_address.xml News and Reports Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:44:12 -0600 Over six hundred participants descended on Wake Forest, North Carolina for the NCFIC's final regional conference for 2007. The conference -- which focused on the reformation of church and home -- included church leadership teams wanting to transition their churches to a more family integrated model, church planting teams from around the country, as well as individuals desiring a better understanding of biblical home and church life. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/a_report_on_the_north_carolina.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/a_report_on_the_north_carolina.xml News and Reports Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:22:15 -0600 John Calvin is best known as a distinguished theologian and leading Protestant Reformer. However, it must be remembered that he functioned first and foremost as a pastor to the congregation of believers at Geneva. This consolatory letter, written by Calvin to Monsieur de Richebourg on the death of his son, reveals a heart that is warm and tender towards those who suffer through the trials of life rather than one which is cold and hard. It is the heart of a true shepherd and pastor to his people. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/family/a_letter_to_a_grieving_father.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/family/a_letter_to_a_grieving_father.xml Family Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:05:44 -0600 More than eleven hundred participants representing states from Florida to Washington and foreign countries from Scotland to Nigeria were on hand for the presentation of the Jubilee Awards during closing ceremonies at the fourth annual San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival held this last weekend. The top winner received a $10,000 grand prize. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/san_antonio_independent_christ.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/san_antonio_independent_christ.xml News and Reports Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:47:46 -0600 There is a new breed of pastor in this country -- men who are not swayed by paycheck or peer pressure. There are hundreds of courageous, God-fearing pastors afoot in this nation, and they fear neither man nor mammon, for they have risked everything -- all money and relationships and comforts -- for faithfulness. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/gods_design_for_church_and_hom.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/gods_design_for_church_and_hom.xml News and Reports Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:50:00 -0600 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas, October 16 -- Christian filmographers will be taking a hard look at the influence of Disney on American culture as part of the Third Annual Christian Filmmakers Academy to be held October 22-24 in San Antonio, Texas. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/christian_filmmakers_to_discus.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/christian_filmmakers_to_discus.xml News and Reports Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:03:53 -0600 Dr. Abshire has offered a devastating response defending his views, Vision Forum Ministries (and, indirectly, innocent men and women who reject feminism and hold to historic Reformation doctrines of the family) from one talebearer who has suggested that such beliefs are "cultic." Dr. Abshire's rebuttal is quite instructive because he exposes numerous basic errors in logic, research omissions, unbrotherly conduct, and outright falsehoods employed by this individual. And Dr. Abshire makes his case with manly firmness, but genuine Christian charity, ever willing to give the benefit of the doubt to an accuser who was most certainly not willing to do the same for him. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/cross_examination/how_to_respond_to_a_talebearer.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/cross_examination/how_to_respond_to_a_talebearer.xml Cross Examination Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:47:41 -0600 Once again, the Christian community has lost a giant of the Faith. Dr. D. James Kennedy died at his home just after 2 a.m. this morning. More than anything, Dr. Kennedy must be remembered as a preacher of the Gospel and of Christ crucified. But he was also one of the men who left the most significant and lasting influences on the Church in America during the last quarter of the twentieth century. He dedicated his life to fighting for the Lordship of Christ. We would be well-served to embrace the best examples of this from his illustrious legacy. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/dr_d_james_kennedy_is_with_jes.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/news_and_reports/dr_d_james_kennedy_is_with_jes.xml News and Reports Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:07:09 -0600 The Reformers of the sixteenth century did not acquiesce to the radical egalitarianism that has become the rage in Evangelical circles in our day, but rather affirmed the doctrine of male headship and female submission as taught in the Scriptures. While male headship is not a popular doctrine in the twenty-first century, it is one that has been affirmed by orthodox commentators for millennia. John Calvin and John Knox are two torch-bearers of this position from the Protestant Reformation. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/family/calvin_and_knox_on_male_headsh.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/family/calvin_and_knox_on_male_headsh.xml Family Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:17:43 -0600 Reformer John Calvin affirmed the role of women as homemakers and urged ladies to rejoice in this station, "[L]et women learn to rejoice when they do their duty, and though the world despise it, let this comfort sweeten all respect they might have that way, and say, 'God seeth me here, and his Angels, who are sufficient witnesses of my doings, although the world do not allow of them.'" http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/family/john_calvin_on_woman_rejoicing.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/family/john_calvin_on_woman_rejoicing.xml Family Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:38:04 -0600 On June 29, 2007, the Texas Supreme Court rendered a unanimous opinion affirming a Texas church's authority to exercise discipline apart from civil interference. This decision is landmark because it is the first time a modern court has clearly and convincingly articulated that a church can carry out biblical under the authority of church government without fear of being overturned in civil court. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/rule_of_law/the_texas_supreme_court_uphold.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/rule_of_law/the_texas_supreme_court_uphold.xml Rule of Law Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:17:22 -0600 As Moses prepared to go the way of the earth, he gave the children of Israel a history of God's workings through their family heritage and charged them to "remember the days of old." Do you understand your personal family history -- both the good and the bad? This article offers probing lessons from Moses' final discourses to the children of Israel on why it is important for God's people to understand and explain to their children their family's background so that they might have hope and overcome. http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/family/ask_now_of_the_days_that_are_p_1.xml http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/family/ask_now_of_the_days_that_are_p_1.xml Family Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:48:59 -0600