Dear Pastor, I am writing to you for the first time. I am 18 years old. I am still a virgin, but I have a boyfriend. We are going steady, but we have never gone to bed. He is planning to be a youth minister. I am planning to be a nurse. We have only kissed. I know he ...
” Christians in particular are vulnerable to treating real spiritual growth as something closer to behavior modification. We know we are supposed to change but we revert back to our old ways of trying to fix ourselves (Gal. 3:1-3). Two simple initial questions might be, “How do you ...
Interestingly, for years both dating systems were used, the Julian called Old Style (OS), and the Gregorian, New Style (NS). The New Style was adopted in the American colonies in 1752. So, George Washington was born in 1731 OS, and 1732 NS, since in OS the new year began in March...
In my evenings this past year, I’ve faced the aching reality of the loss of my foster daughter, the disintegration of my hope to adopt, and with them, the collapse of my dream to be a mom. God, it’s been painful! And so important. All the wrestling has allowed me to get to ...
1. A 9 year old girl in Brazil who was pregnant with twins had an abortion this past week. It was soon found that the father of her twins is none other than her 23 year old stepfather who had been abusing her for some years. They are all catholic. In hearing this news, the archbi...
He always said it was a man’s duty to marry up and improve his genetics. Well, he sure did that with Didi (as you New Jersey people can testify). And the truth is that I’ve done the same with Diana. She is pretty amazing with what she can do – like fix computers and ...
I got to the stop that morning and everything was business as usual. Like all the other kids, the girl was wearing enough layers of clothing to pass for a deep-sea diver. All I could see of her was a portion of her face. Through all the layers, she was carrying an armload full ...
the frank tone of his article is not for the faint of heart. He opens with the story of a thirteen-year-old girl named Chevonea. A boy had pressured her into performing a sex act on him, which he recorded with his cell phone’s camera and subsequently showed to all his buddies. Che...
Either embrace a new new lifestyle, in Christ, or remain the “old way.” The church of Ephesus is akin to a new patient, with pre-existing conditions, andPaul is performing the role of doctor by informing them they have a sickness that needs to be addressed NOW and the medicine is ...
The view that I am referring to, is the one that states the following: If you have been divorced from your first spouse, you cannot remarry at all unless the first spouse has died. And if you have already remarried someone else (with your first spouse still alive), then you must now...