Laura Martin

Simul justus et peccator. Avid reader. DTS grad. Pro-life. Egalitarian. Author, speaker, Bible teacher. Loves postal mail!

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

The thing that makes Ross Douthat such a good interviewer is that Ross has depth. He’s so well read and has such a curious mind. It also helps that he is deeply Christian and can probe to the moral and spiritual foundations. Few journalists can do that.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Saw someone say, “The internet was once a library and they turned it into a store,” and if you’re young I don’t think you can imagine how different the web used to be.

[Laura Martin @EnoughLight]

I shut up my cardiologist fast. She brought up needing to treat my cholesterol. I politely said...but my CAC is zero. There is no protocol for starting treatment with a CAC of zero. -- She immediately changed the conversation. 😃😀😀

[DoctorTro | Metabolic & Obesity Physician @DoctorTro]

Get a CAC now

[Dr. Michael J. Svigel @Svigel]

It’s ADDS—Anti-Dispensational Derangement Syndrome. There are three strains M, E, and S: mental, emotional, and spiritual. The Mental (ADDS[M]) occurs when they believe things that are literally and demonstrably not true about dispensationalism as a whole, refuse to be corrected by facts, and hate dispensationalists on that basis. The Emotional (ADDS[E]) occurs when they were raised in some (usually fringe) form of dispensationalism and emotionally react against it with deep disdain and vitriol, often claiming to “know all about it” because they “survived it,” though their familiarity is usually superficial. And the Spiritual (ADDS[S]) occurs when they engage in a kind of diabolical hatred of dispensationalism and its doctrines (especially its philo-Semitic orientation) with sinful attitudes like anger, wrath, fury, lies, slander, and libel, often condemning dispensationalists to hell as heretics and thus guilty of schism and sin against the body of Christ. People can actually have more than one strain at a time: ADDS(MES). There is no cure. They can only be delivered by prayer and fasting and treated with a constant stream of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

[Laura Martin @EnoughLight]

Foggy Mountain Quartet - Are You Washed in the Blood - Earl Scruggs: Guitar https://t.co/M53Jep7Bvy via @YouTube

[Rabbi Brian Samuel @rabbriansamuel]

As Chanukah approaches, I find myself wanting to share this photograph again.

In these times, it remains poignant, powerful, and relevant.

[Bill Muehlenberg @BillMuehlenberg]

It is time for God’s people to repent of their shameful biblical ignorance, and start using their minds to fully love God, as Jesus commanded us to do (Matthew 22:34-40; Mark 12:28-34; and Luke 10:25-28 – all drawing from Deuteronomy 6:4-9). Or as Paul said in Romans 12:2: “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” How many believers read that as saying, “Be transformed by the removing of your mind”?

[Jen Wilkin @jenniferwilkin]

If you’re skeptical more Bible study will fix biblical illiteracy, it depends on whether the study is training students in tools. BSF has been doing this successfully for decades. Why not the local church?

*Learning* is a non-negotiable ingredient of holistic discipleship.

[Keith Plummer @XianMind]

If ever there was a grand opportunity to give a clear articulation of the gospel it was here, and it was tremendously missed.

[Laura Martin @EnoughLight]

@_P3te_Belcher Thanks. We are...puzzled. My husband and I, I think, are more discerning than many. The lack of transparency is not good and just strange, yet otherwise things seem okay. We don't see red flags. We've not encountered a church situation quite like this.

[Laura Martin @EnoughLight]

1 of 2. Same church, previous post. Was told the church functions organically without formal leadership except there is a pastor. It is an independent church. BUT there is a "planning committee" mentioned at times & a mysterious "they" referred to for certain decisions.

[Laura Martin @EnoughLight]

Its a Baptist hymnal although the church isn't Baptist & there are many not-obscure, easier to sing hymns in it. I inquired in as positive way as possible (after all, we love hymns/hymnals) about the hymn choices - Was told "it is complicated" and given odd, evasive answer. 🧐

[Laura Martin @EnoughLight]

1 of 2. We've attended a church close to 2 years, that sings hymns & uses a hymnal. Yeah! However, the hymns chosen...many (75% or so) are...obscure, awkward to sing, etc. I know more hymns than most, and I can't figure out why such are chosen.

[Keith Plummer @XianMind]

“The twenty-first century’s much-documented epidemic of anxiety, depression, and purposelessness is at least partly rooted in the pointlessness, fragmentation and triviality of the culture of the screen.” -@j_amesmarriott, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘴

[Laura Martin @EnoughLight]

@martensmatt1 I bought your book and gave to someone at my church. She just told me that she suggested it to another, who has now ordered a copy. -- Reforming Criminal Justice by Matthew T. Martens

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Today is the National Day for the Victims of Communism. Communism killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century.

This memorial, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Prague, powerfully captures what communism does to the human person.

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

I often get this response when I quote Chuck Colson. Here's the thing: Chuck owned his previous life. It was his story. Christ saved him from sin. His message was always, "Yes, that was me, but I'm a new man. And you can be, too, through the power of the gospel."

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Most people do not realize just how easy the AP exams have gotten. They are not college level.

Why/how have they become so easy? What's going on?

This might shock you... A brutal new piece in Education Next just dropped, saying the decline in rigor of the AP in the last two decades is, in large part, because the content has been GUTTED. For example:

— AP Biology cut 40% of its material
— Required lines from the Aeneid in AP Latin halved
— Spanish Lit reading list cut from 56 works to 38

Then the questions themselves have become absurdly easier. Readability measures show English passages have fallen multiple grade levels, and some now include footnotes defining basic words...

A 2025 AP English prompt included footnote definitions for words like "optimism" and "pessimism."

At the same time, scoring was recalibrated so that more students pass: guessing penalties disappeared, rubrics grew more generous, readers were told to give students the benefit of the doubt, etc. — "no one at College Board had any incentive to maintain rigor."

College professors are now seeing students arrive with AP credit who lack basic content knowledge and writing ability. The College Board insists the exams have not become easier, but everybody familiar with them knows they've become an absolute joke.

Advanced Placement is no longer advanced. This is not college level.

It must be replaced.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

BREAKING: Virginia just legalized abortion up to birth.

Pray for unborn babies.