How you think changes everything
I just finished reading The Boy on the Wooden Box to my son, who I homeschool in his 5th grade year. Interestingly enough, I’ve been simultaneously reading Ordinary Men for a class I’m taking on “Why God Allows Evil.” Both books deal with the Holocaust. The book I’m reading to Josh, however, deals with a […]
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Pornography will hurt you. Young men, and an ever-growing number of young women, have secret addictions to pornography. Mainstream culture is beginning to notice the detrimental effects pornography is having on society as a whole. It “objectifies” people. What does that mean? It means you no longer see a person as a real human being—they […]
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It doesn’t take a lot of common sense to realize if you’re going to fill your minds with bad stuff, you’re more likely to become bad yourself. A recent example of this was when a 17-year old boy planned a massacre at his high school in Minnesota. Thank God his plans were thwarted by a woman who […]
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We were created in the image of God. You are called to represent God on Earth! Wow. What is that supposed to look like? Two arms, legs and a head? No, being in the image of God is speaking about the divine nature of God—it’s primarily love. God is love, and we’re told to love […]
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We are pressured into becoming mostly mindless, sensate, desire-fulfilling creatures of instinct. That’s how we are often expected to live and move and have our being. But one of the dignifying features of theism, and Christian theism specifically, is the acknowledgement that human beings are “more than” what our society pressures us into being. We […]
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