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At a wedding the other night I wittnessed an event that charactarized the state of marriage in America. This event ocurred when it came time to throw the bouquet and fling the garder belt, a tradition which supposedly determines or indicates who is the next to be married. First the women When the bride went [...]
I got into a discussion a while back about the legitimacy of corporal punishment. Liberal parents are fond of labeling any form of punishment child abuse1. Corporal punishment aside, lets look at the notion of child abuse a bit more. Let’s say a couple has casual sex, sex outside of marriage, sex outside of a [...]
Recently, a friend of mine posted a link to an article which details how Sweden views corporal punishment. KARLSTAD, Sweden, November 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Swedish district court has sentenced a couple to nine months each in prison and fined them the equivalent of US $10,650 after they admitted to spanking three of their [...]
One of the first symptoms they discover of a selfish and mischievous ambition, is a profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others. To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is [...]
Last year my daughter helped shed some insights into Thanksgiving. And since she reminded me of her insights again this year, I thought I would share them with everyone. Enjoy! My daughter’s recently had a week where the emphasis was on “being thankful” before Thanksgiving this year. Curiously, or typically rather in our politically correct [...]
Elroy Bosch has recently written an excellent post titled “A (not-so-secret) Secret to Great Church Life”. Here are a couple of highlights: Families Genuinely Take Care of One Another. Families Spend Time Together. Families Show One Another Affection. Families Grow.1 Families Share Responsibility. I think he sums it up nicely in the outset: Today, the [...]
Much has been said regarding pornography. It’s use, it’s consumption, it’s effects on both groups, and it’s effect on society. I want to step back, however, for a minute and discuss how pornography itself constitutes a “way of knowing” regarding sex and how this method of knowing, this ideological grid, colors how we think about [...]
It is often repeated on late-night talk shows that abstinence-only education is a failed pipe-dream and that the more responsible thing to do is teach kids how to have “safe-sex”. This line has been repeated so often that many people take it as an unquestioned fact. But is it really? Preliminary studies have shown that [...]
I was asked a couple of questions recently regarding unity and how I believe we ought to pursue it in regards to the Church of Christ. Since these questions cut to the heart of many of the struggles that occur in the body of Christ (unfortunately, often in the name of Christ) I figured I’d [...]
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Much is made of “the local church” today but I wonder, do we really know what the term means. More importantly, do we know what that term meant to the early Christians?
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