A family counselor named Jill Manning says, “I can unequivocally tell you pornography, especially Internet pornography with its violent, demeaning, or highly explicit messages, is damaging, not only for youths, but for many adults as well. It has lasting affect on social and sexual attitude and
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 3, 2001
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Many years ago, Indian youths would go away in solitude to prepare for manhood. One such youth hiked into a beautiful valley, green with trees, bright with flowers. There he fasted. But on the third day, as he looked up at the surrounding mountains, he noticed one tall rugged peak, capped with
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Leonard Sweet writes, “Jesus’ world seemed over peopled with outcasts. Jesus’ table fellowship with real-life low-life’s outraged the pious among the people of his day,..An authentic biblical table culture will similarly outrage the pious of our day, especially when the church starts imitating
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Contributed by Jim Luthy on Aug 14, 2001
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This religion of me and thee, as George Gallup, Jr. calls it, along with a hunger for experience over knowledge, has contributed to a tremendous diversity of beliefs, many of which are antithetical to biblical principles. These unhealthy attitudes have crept into the church, as evidenced by the
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Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Jun 29, 2005
God Values Our Gifts
God seeks and values the gifts we bring Him—gifts of praise, thanksgiving, service, and material offerings. In all such giving at the altar we enter into the highest experiences of fellowship. But the gift is acceptable to God in the measure to which the one who offers it is in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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Where have All The Tithes Gone? Christian Stewardship Association reports 85% of pastor’s feel they haven’t been taught or empowered to teach principles of biblical stewardship and finance. 90% of churches have no program to teach stewardship principles.
We are in the midst of a 26-year decline in
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The following thoughts are from Sy Rogers:
God is event and process oriented – Most Christians are only event orientated.
But the development of a baby is a process caused by one passionate event in the bedroom.
Birth is an event but there is a process of growth and maturity. God will not zap a
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jan 19, 2008
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C. S. Lewis explains the conflict in The Four Loves.
Anyone who has ever taught or attempted to lead others knows the tendency in all of us toward exaggerating our depth of character while treating leniently our flaws. The Bible calls this tendency hypocrisy. We consciously or subconsciously put
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Philip Keller in his book entitled “A Gardener Looks At The Fruit of the Spirit” says that self control in the biblical sense “means my ‘self’ my whole person, my whole being, body soul and spirit come under the control of Christ. It means that I am an individual governed by God. My entire life,
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