Media and the Sexualization of Children: Thoughts From a Concerned Parent
Transgendered children are Exhibit A for a liberal, sexual agenda.
I fully expect to see cartoons, video games, children books and movies reflecting these changing views of family and marriages. Already last week I saw a new Tylenol commercial that is trying to redefine conventional family by including scenes of both lesbian and gay couples with children using the hashtag, #HowWeDoFamily. The Today Show’s article about a transgender... Continue Reading
Loving Our Neighbors: The Tragic Consequences of Misdirected Longings
Our neighbors have the right longings, but those longings are misdirected by sin.
Same-sex marriage is thus rooted in a deep human desire to love and to be loved, to know and to be known. For whatever reasons, some people have an attraction to people of the same sex rather than the opposite sex. This is just one aspect of the fallen, broken nature of our humanity and... Continue Reading
Six Reasons Why Women May Be Leaving Your Church
These six reasons are a means to ministering more effectively towards women.
“It’s tough coming to church without my husband. I am totally responsible to get our three kids to church. And I really feel out of place because the church has groups for married adults and single adults. I don’t know where I fit.” I have the opportunity to be in many churches. In that... Continue Reading
Modern English Versions and the Greek New Testament
Many of the newer translations do not give us enough information.
Modern English versions, in relation to the Greek text of the New Testament, are somewhat like those old user manuals. They tend to assume too much, and hence give the ordinary reader too little information. Some of us remember the days before the internet and Google, when a new software program came with an... Continue Reading
Review: Openness Unhindered by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Who we are, flows out of who we belong to.
Regarding sexual orientation, Butterfield traces this back to Sigmund Freud who rooted identity in sexuality rather than being made in the image of God. This has profound implications because people are now identified in categories that reject Original Sin. Openness Unhindered, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Crown & Covenant Publications, July 2015, 206 pages. The Secret... Continue Reading
The Early Church on Homosexuality
More evidence that the church has always opposed sexual immorality.
One more thing worth noting is that Athenagoras mentions how the old Roman laws condemned homosexuality and pedophile acts. When Roman citizens commit these acts, they “do violence in contravention of the very laws which you and your [Roman] ancestors, with due care for all that is fair and right, have enacted.” In other words,... Continue Reading