Statistics of Pornography | Children | Sex-Trafficking: At colleges, 62% of men and 17% of women spend time online every week for sex-related amusement 72% of kids have been exposed to pornography on the internet 1 out of every 5 pornographic images is of a child* 55% of all child pornography originates in the United … Continue reading »
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Sexual Confusion & the Gospel
This Friday evening and Saturday will find me attending a conference in Winona Lake, Indiana. Sexual Confusion and the Gospel conference has the stated purpose: To joyfully celebrate and uphold the beauty, goodness, and wisdom of God’s standards for human sexuality against the folly of our age. The two speakers at this conference will be: … Continue reading »
Sexual Confusion and the Gospel Conference – Winona Lake, IN – January 20-21, 2012
Biblical Wisdom in an Age of Folly The purpose of this conference? To joyfully celebrate and uphold the beauty, goodness, and wisdom of God’s standards for human sexuality against the folly of our age. Our speakers: Tim Challies: Evangelical author and blogger at challies.com Frank Turk: Evangelical blogger at Pyromaniacs The issue of human sexuality … Continue reading »
Life without Terror and Discouragement
I am utilizing Professor Horner’s Bible Reading Plan this year for my personal reading plan. You may know that Tim Challies has encouraged many of his blog audience to go through this plan together as well. I started using this plan last year…and then my physical health world kind of turned upside down. Click through … Continue reading »
Christians Get Depressed Too – an intimate look, pt.3 (video post)
(If you receive this via RSS you may need to click through to view video) Part three of a look at the eight reasons why David Murray says in his book Christians Get Depressed Too that we should learn all we can about depression. Sorry about the shaking of the camera. I was holding my … Continue reading »
Christians Get Depressed Too – an intimate look; pt.1
I was reminded recently of David Murray‘s excellent “little” book entitled, “Christians Get Depressed Too”. Tim Challies posted a blog entry about it and brought it back to mind. I had read it some time ago as a free download because I participated in Challies’ Friend of the Blog program. I am currently re-reading it … Continue reading »
Christians Get Depressed Too – Tim Challies
I read this post in my blog reader early this a.m. It provides serious food for thought, especially the second paragraph. It comes on the heels of my studying Lamentations 3 and Jeremiah’s depression. Here’s the article copied in it’s entirety from Challies’ blog. I, too, have read this book and recommend it highly. One … Continue reading »
A Praying Life – Paul Miller (Free for Kindle – limited time)
One of the spiritual disciplines that I struggle with the most, and yet am reminded daily that I need to increase, is prayer. I’ve read many books on prayer as a result. I am learning that reading a book on prayer is not the same as praying. Funny how we equate those two sometimes, isn’t … Continue reading »
For CBC: an article to read in preparation for tomorrow’s sermon
Tomorrow I will be preaching at Calvary Baptist Church in Oswego, IN. I’ll be preaching a sermon continuing our study in Galatians. Our text will be Galatians 4:8-20. The title of the sermon is “Birthmarks of a Believer”. I’ll be touching on orphans & adoption just briefly. Today Tim Challies posted a link to this … Continue reading »
Facebook Depression: a new risk for teens
I was intrigued recently by reading an AP news article entitled, Facebook Depression seen as new risk for teens. Having just read through Tim Challies, The Next Story, I was sensitive to how this social media network might be adversely affecting our young people. This is what I gleaned from the article: Teens that are … Continue reading »
