See Voice of the Martyrs. You won’t hear these stories from the mainstream media. Christians around the world get persecuted for their faith. VOTM does a great job of communicating their needs and helping them. Few Christians and “Christians” in the U.S. take any risks for their faith, but the persecuted Christians risk their health, lives and property daily.
Hebrews 13:3 Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
Political correctness is the adult version of Jr. High peer pressure: People say things they know are false because they are afraid of being unpopular.
I urge everyone — and especially Christians — to avoid saying foolish, politically correct things. Some people need to grow spines, or guts, or fill-in-your-preferred-body-part.
I’m not saying to be belligerent jerks about it. Just speak the truth graciously — but speak the truth. Don’t say things you know aren’t true. Don’t say the opposite of what God said in his word.
Christians throughout history sacrificed wealth, freedom and even their lives rather than deny essential truths such as the deity of Christ and many still suffer greatly today for the same reasons. Yet so many of us are too afraid to state the obvious: Jesus is God. He is the only way to salvation, and apart from trusting in him you will spend an eternity in Hell separated from your creator and paying for your sins. Other religions are false. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but Islam is not a religion of peace. God’s original plan and ideal for marriage is one man and one woman for life. Abortion kills innocent human beings and is wrong. And so on.
Too many people have a perverted view of love, where they view it as sentimental indulgence and use it to rationalize and even encourage sin. That isn’t the Biblical view of “agape” love that has people’s long-term best interests at heart.
Was Jesus loving? Of course. All the time? Of course. And that means He was being loving when He spoke the truth about sin, Hell and more. People need to read all of the Bible and remember that God –who is all loving — inspired it all. Even the parts that make us squirm in our politically correct society. Scan the Gospels and the rest of the Bible and see how much of it would qualify as politically correct “love” in our culture. Then decide which side you will choose.
Despite initial efforts to understand how the Albuquerque native came into being, one researcher told reporters that even a modification of Darwinian theory might be insufficient to account for Mitch.
“I know this is controversial, but we have to consider the possibility that Darwin was wrong, ” said Victor Siles, a geneticist at the University of California–Berkeley. “Nothing we currently know about DNA, no fully mapped genome, can account for the presence of someone whose apartment smells that much like Chef Boyardee.”
Creationists, meanwhile, have been surprisingly muted in their celebration of a man whose existence would seem to disprove so much of evolutionary theory.
“It’s great that Mitch has been so disruptive to the evolutionist camp,” Jim Moore of the Colorado Springs–based Genesis Ministries said. “But quite honestly, there’s no way we can explain him in terms of a perfect or loving God, either.”
“We’re just going to sit this one out,” Moore added.
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If you have an iPhone that can upgrade to the new operating system (iOS 4) I highly recommend it. It downloaded quickly. The unified inbox alone will save me lots of time, as now I don’t need to use so many taps to get from one box to the next. Editing music playlists is handy. Not sure how much the multi-tasking will impact me. The folders feature for similar apps will be useful.
Note: you need to upgrade to iTunes 9.2 first.
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Terrific list of guidelines from Randy Alcorn for sexual purity.
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Free Condoms in Public Elementary School – really bad on multiple levels. Encouraging kids to have sex and deliberately leaving their parents out of the discussion. Another reason to home school: Protect your kids from these freaks.
These days public schools don’t pay much attention to the tired old topics of yesteryear — reading, writing, arithmetic, etc. Now the emphasis is on learning fun stuff, like sexual intercourse and disregarding the wishes of parents: A New England school district has approved a measure that will provide free condoms to elementary school students and direct teachers not to comply with parental wishes to the contrary.
Gary and Tony have a baby — CNN helps feed the narcissism and more child sacrifice. Sad. Note how CNN has a whole section devoted to sexual perversions, as if it is a category akin to Sport or Weather.
Today we were able to see numerous patients at several hospitals. There were fewer gunshots and far more machete and knife wounds than I have seen in the past in northern Nigeria. It looks to me like the Muslims had sharpened their weapons before the attack, because the wounds on these folks were significantly deeper and more destructive than any of those I saw in January when Muslims attacked Christians in Jos. The epitome was a 4-year-old little girl whose left arm was slashed and amputated above the elbow.
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The Lakers beating the Celtics = fantastic. Beating them in 7 games? Extra fantastic. Not as good as 1985, but a nice 2nd place.
Loved Ron Artest’s interviews. None of that silly “giving 110%” blather from this guy. It was great to see him come through like that. He was so cool the whole game.
Eternity Matters 