Pine Tree Leadership Development Network

03/01/2026

https://thirdmill.org/seminary/forumsegment.asp/id/311/vs/BYT/ln/1

10/07/2025

This is a class I (Ryan Goding) am putting together through NEBCS exclusively for High School students. It is an asynchronous class (not live /self-paced).

Early College Course Exclusively for High School Juniors and Seniors!
Are you wondering how to make sense of the world through a biblical lens? Check out our new course designed just for you! Fully online!
https://www.nebc.edu/dual-enrollment

03/08/2025

Upcoming conference from Gospel Alliance of Maine featuring Dr. Mark Garcia on the topic of Reformed Catholicity.

02/15/2025

Eastpoint Christian Church, 345 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland, ME 04106 US - Saturday, Aug 2, 2025 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT

02/05/2025

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/cohort/sexuality-singleness-marriage-march-2025/

How God’s Design Points All of Us to Jesus’s Love • Sam Allberry, Rachel Gilson, and Rebecca McLaughlin

02/03/2025

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable; but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

02/03/2025

The world of Christian faith is not a fairy-tale, make-believe world, question-free and problem-proof, but a world where doubt is never far from faith’s shoulder. Consequently, a healthy understanding of doubt should go hand in hand with a healthy understanding of faith…Faith is not doubt-free, but there is a genuine assurance of faith that is truly beyond a shadow of doubt.
- Os Guiness, God in the Dark

02/03/2025

Sudden struggling with doubt may not be anything more complicated than an internal cognitive dissonance. This can happen because your faith has been based on a simple uncritical embrace of the things you have been taught as a Christian. Those unsupported beliefs may now be colliding with the complexities of your world. You may be experiencing an internal desire for greater substance and support for your faith, which, in the long run, is always a helpful and healthy thing.

Such support is able to be had. Knowing not just what but why you believe brings greater confidence and assurance. In those situations doubt is a catalyst towards deeper understanding of your faith and its bases. Acting on this sort of doubt can help you to seek out and arm yourself with the ability to “give a defense for the hope that is within you” (1 Peter 3:15).

02/03/2025

This is Jerry Bridges' explanation of our frustration over what appears to be our lack of growth in Christ. He says that, per Romans 7:15-25, our frustrations are because, although we are in fact growing, our knowledge of the demands of God's holiness grows more rapidly than our own practice of holiness. The ever-widening difference between the change that is, in fact taking place in us, and our own understanding of God's true character are the source of our dissatisfaction with our own progress in holiness. He calls the difference between the two upward lines "the Romans 7 factor."

02/03/2025

“Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has
been forsaken, and still obeys him.”

- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

02/01/2025

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