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Mr. Pope is a self-described “eternal optimist,” which stems from his belief in the sovereignty of God. No matter how bad things may appear, the Bible declares that “all things work together for good to them that love God...” |
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At what point in a relationship do you seal an important contract? Concerned about the lack of purity in the world that your children are growing up in? Teach them about the symbolism behind the first kiss. |
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You don't need to automatically think liberal when you hear the term organic cotton. The image that many people conjure up when they hear the term organic cotton is the sixties' hippie, communist, pinko, environmentalist wacko. This person is a part of the market for organic products including organic cotton, and the Christian must reject his worldview. |
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You want to give your wife a true Valentine this year? This is a Valentine that will last forever. |
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It may be some time before the American mindset is such that pornography will be banned, but there is a distinction in US law between pornography and obscenity, and there is still an almost universal disgust over child pornography. This provides an opportunity to rid the culture of some highly damaging evil. |
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“I can't wear a modest dress to church, everyone will think I'm peculiar.” That is a shame. About a half dozen times the authorized version of the Bible refers to God's people as peculiar. In fact Titus 2:14 explains that Christ went to the cross so that believers would be delivered from a sinful lifestyle and become a “peculiar people”. |
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Tuesday June 1st, has been designated Wear a Dress Day, by a facebook subscriber somewhere in the world. Regardless of the original intent of this person, a quick perusal of the page reveals that modest dress is not necessarily going to be the attire of the day. Glorifying God in appearance is not on the mind of at least some of the few who have jumped on this bandwagon. Wear a Dress Day... |
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As Max approached Pastor Porter, the pastor could see the distraught look on his young face. With compassion in his voice Pastor Porter asked, “How can I be of assistance to you, young man?”
With immense emotion Max began |
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The book of Proverbs has a lot to say about wisdom and foolishness, about righteousness and wickedness. It is easy to read these proverbs and remove ourselves from the idea of being the foolish person mentioned in many of them—to subconsciously think that that does not relate to us/me. I had done this for years. Then one time I read Proverbs 14:1 |
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“It's all about me.” This sentiment is the natural outgrowth of the deification of man, which is the aegis of Secular Humanism. For Secular Humanism to reign the people must be dumbed down, and this has been remarkably accomplished. Tragically, this thinking, and this dumbing down, has infected the church in 21st century America, and it has perverted the scope of the great commission. |
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In years gone by it was the tradition of all the young ladies, of all ages, to buy a new dress for the Easter Sunday celebration at their respective churches. The 21st century church has abandoned that tradition by and large, in favor of a more casual look. |
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'You just want your cake and eat it too.' Of course I want to eat it too, what good is cake if you can't eat it?
'It's always the last place I look.' So glad you don't continue to look after you found it, smart guy.
'Can I ask you a question?' It's a little for that now isn't it?
'Has the bus come yet?' Yeah, I'm still standing here so that I can tell you that the bus already came.
'You can't legislate morality.' Then what do you legislate? |
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Attorney General Edwin Meese III announced the formation of a commission to “study...the dimensions of the problem of pornography...review...the available empirical evidence on the relationship between exposure to pornographic materials and antisocial behavior...” |
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In a recent radio broadcast Ravi Zacharias said, “You cannot, simply cannot, build a culture when nothing is shameful anymore.” If you believe the truthfulness of this statement and as you watch standards of modest dress decline in the American 'culture' you may be wondering how much time is left before this culture implodes and what, if anything, you can do to combat the spirit of the age. Many are already taking practical measures to defeat the attitude that modest dress does not matter. |
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There is a large movement within the Christian community toward modest clothing. The hope of most in this movement is to effect the rest of society to begin dressing modestly. The practice of the business community and Amway, MLM or network marketing may indicate that this goal is achievable. |
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In the Rich Christiansen film The Time Changers the story is told of the Christian college professor of the 19th century who writes a book encouraging morality in society apart from the law of God and Jesus Christ. This character is then transported through time to the present, where he encounters the society that tried this formula. To his horror... |
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“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a people set at liberty, that ye should show forth the virtues of him that hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (I Peter 2:9). This one passage summarizes some highly important aspects of the concept of holiness. |
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Why did the little boy in the story of the Emperor's New Clothes see that it was wrong that the emperor was wearing no clothes while the rest of the kingdom continued to praise the king? Could it be that the little boy was like the “little children” of faith in Matthew chapter 18? Does this story have any application to American society today? |
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There was in the land of Us a man who enjoyed an adulterous life. His heart was hardened and he experienced no shame because of the lifestyle that he had chosen. He owned a small chain of dance studios that brought him both success and pleasure. He enjoyed success due to a steady flow of clientèle into his studios. His pleasure was evoked by the beautiful young girls that he hired to teach his clientèle dance. |
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Have you heard the announcement sometimes on the radio—“This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. It is only a test!”? Well, there is something we all have, called the autonomic nervous system, which is our emergency system. And we don’t get to hear the announcement before it goes into effect! This is a response system that we don’t even realize is there at times. Imagine these scenarios: |
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