Quote: When sex gets the best of you
“What had happened to the human imagination, as a whole, was that the whole world was coloured by dangerous and rapidly deteriorating passions; by natural passions becoming unnatural passions. Thus the effect of treating sex as only one innocent natural thing was that every other innocent natural thing became soaked and sodden with sex. For sex cannot be admitted to a mere equality among elementary emotions or experiences like eating and sleeping. The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant. There is something dangerous and disproportionate in its place in human nature, for whatever reason; and it does really need a special purification and dedication. The modern talk about sex being free like any other sense… Continue reading ...
10 reasons why absent fathers are bad for society
There is a lot of hoo-hah in today’s society as to the role that fathers play in the lives of their children. It seems that society nowadays believes that single-parenting is an okay situation – and by accepting this situation in totality, they state that fathers are redundant. Why? Because the majority of single-parent households consist of mother and child. This comes at a cost to society. From Fathers for Life, studies have shown that fathers play an important and pivotal role in the upbringing of their children. And the best environment in which fatherhood ‘earns its keep’ – and in which children ultimately flourish – is within an intact, married household.
As Frank Turek notes, there are 10… Continue reading ...
Quote: we are too easily pleased
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
CS Lewis, from The Weight of Glory
Quote: God doesn’t promise Christians an end to their troubles
When a man turns to Christ and seems to be getting on pretty well … he often feels that it would now be natural if things went fairly smoothly. When troubles come along – illness, money troubles, new kinds of temptations – he is disappointed. These things, he feels, might have been necessary to rouse him and make him repent in his bad old days; but why now? Because God is forcing him on, or up, to a higher level: putting him into situations where he will have to be very much braver, or more patient, or more loving, than he ever dreamed of being before. It seems to us all unnecessary but that is because we have not yet had the slightest notion of the tremendous thing [God] means… Continue reading ...
Quote: The greatest evil
The greatest evil has not come from people zealous for God. It has resulted when people are convinced there is no God to answer to.
- Greg Koukl, from his book Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
Purposely Driven Lost
[I was thinking of titling this The Purpose Driven Lie ... but I'm convinced Rick Warren is more of a lost sinner than a lying one.]
Admittedly, I have Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life sitting somewhere on my bookshelf. I had read it some years ago. Recently, however, since I’ve joined the blogging community, I’ve become increasingly aware that Rick Warren’s gospel of Jesus is not necessarily an accurate – let alone spiritually healthy – one. I further admit that at the time, I thought his book was great … after watching this video, and after reading article after article on the interwebs that pull the true meaning of Rick Warren’s gospel apart, I will endeavour to read his book again – this time, with a more critical… Continue reading ...
Dinesh D’Souza and evolutionary theory – a short take on his evolutionary defence
What’s So Great About Christianity
Our Western cultures today now bite the hands that fed them – the irony is that the tools in which anti-theists in general, and anti-Christians in particular, now wield have been afforded to them by… Continue reading ...
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