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Imagine yourself in a court of law. You are part of the jury, and the writers of the Bible present you with evidence about God and about His Son, Jesus Christ. When they are finished, they will look to you for a verdict. All they ask is an objective assessment of the evidence, that you listen without prejudice.
Older women are using Snapchat’s feature to create filtered images of themselves for social media. It’s amazing how many years can be erased with this free app filter. But this is self-objectifying, and we are becoming our own idol to worship. A filtered image isn’t who we are.
This whole episode demonstrates a shameful abuse of a government agency in the name of ideology, and just shows why a growing number of Americans have no trust in our country’s largest public and private institutions.
Presuming we get on the other side of COVID by the end of this year, the picture for churches in America is mostly clear. Of course, none of us can know the future with certainty, and another COVID spike could change the conversation dramatically.
The video had plenty of blame and self-denigration. It was incredibly hard for me to believe this was the organization that I once served, for years, as a chapter Board member. I don’t even recognize Bethany anymore.
Abuse can be physical, verbal, mental, emotional, financial, sexual and even spiritual. The verbal power we have is monumental — it is truly life or death we are speaking over others.
We don’t need a better guidebook or a different set of rules. We need to change the way we approach the conversation.
There are clear, pro-life reasons why mothers and fathers need time with new babies.
There are clear, pro-life reasons why mothers and fathers need time with new babies.
Proverbs teaches that anger is addictive and irrational. It may be appropriate at times, but those times are never as common as we like to think (especially when we are angry).
