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A Brave Way to Nurture Learning
Frederick Douglass once said, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Reading is vitally important to a child’s imagination and education. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) notes, "At all three grades, students who more frequently read for fun on their own time had higher average proficiencies."
Posted in Child Exploitation, Education, Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality
Tagged books, Brave Books, Christianity, families, Kirk Cameron, literature, Trent Talbot
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Choose You This Day: Part 3
A sad commentary on American culture is its confusion regarding love, to the point that love has been flipped on its head to become its opposite! Today, if you genuinely love, you will probably be called a hater, and many will declare that you are loving when what you say and do is actually destructive and deadly!
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged agape, career, children, Christianity, Culture, families, love, Mother's Day, sacrifice
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Choose You This Day: Part 2
The atheistic Left began their assault on America over seventy years ago. Their progress was quite slow in the beginning, and one must give them credit for their determination. They have not quit to this day! A principal actor in this effort has been the Communist Party USA, but it is only one of numerous Leftist groups seeking to divide and destroy this great nation (They all lean Marxist).
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality
Tagged Abortion, America, Assisted Suicide, Atheism, Christianity, faith, Left, Marxism, pregnancy
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What to Say?
I saw a Facebook post recently re-shared by a friend I admire. You will need to read it all the way through to get the gist of it. Since it was a public post, here’s some of it:
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality
Tagged Christianity, church, faith, homosexuality, repentance, transformation
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How to Pray with Power
Many, if not most (dare I say all of us), who belong to Christ need to pray more. We need to call upon the Lord with confidence that He cares more than we do. He knows more than we do. He has resources far beyond what we have, and He is far more just, wise, loving, and kind than any of us are. Prayer cannot be an afterthought for the believer.
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Tagged Christianity, Donald Whitney, Dr. Wayne Grudem, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare
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Why We Must Pray Now
In a world where so many of the challenges in our state, our nation, and our world seem insurmountable, where should we start? In a world where many of our neighbors and even some self-professing Christians believe prayers are useless and the only thing that counts is “good deeds,” how should we as Christians respond?
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Tagged Charles Spurgeon, Christianity, Martin Luther, Paul Tautges, Prayer
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What Makes Easter…Easter?
Churches throughout Illinois are preparing for this upcoming Easter Sunday. Also known in Christendom as Resurrection Day. It is most certainly the most important of Christian celebrations on the calendar. I mean, what could possibly be more significant and impressive than a man crucified in front of witnesses come back to life a few days later?
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Christianity, church, Easter, Jill Biden, People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals, PETA, President Biden, resurrection, What Makes Easter…Easter?
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Leap of Faith
It’s here. Leap Day. A good thing if you need a day to catch up on things. Not as good if it means you have to work an extra day for your paycheck. Why the need for this extra day? So that our calendars can play catch up! For the Earth to orbit the sun, our planet actually takes 365.242190 days. You multiply that excess travel time and it yields up an extra day every four years. Or so we’re told.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Christianity, February, February 29, Hall of Faith, Hebrews, Leap Day, Leap of Faith, Leap Year
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A Christian Response to “Death with Dignity”
The forces of darkness in Illinois want to take the state’s death agenda to the next level. Some deceived politicians have now introduced an assisted suicide—euphemistically referred to as a “Medical Aid in Dying” or “Death with Dignity”—bill in Springfield. A bill sponsored by Illinois Senator Linda Holmes (D-Aurora), SB 3499 creates the “End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act.”
Posted in Faith, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Adam J. MacLeod, bills, Christianity, Death With Dignity, dignity, Dr. Harold Brown, Dr. Robert Orr, End of Life, John Piper, Linda Holmes, Melvin Tinker, Right to Life, Sanctity of Life, Steve Deace, suffering, Wesley Smith
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Christians, Stop Living Like You’re Lost Part 2
In my last article I addressed the reality that many born-again Christians have been thinking and acting too much like the non-Christians around them. I pointed out particularly the willingness of so many to lie, or misrepresent the facts, when it appeared to benefit them. Sadly, abandoning truthfulness is not the only similarity between many of God’s people and the world.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged Christianity, Christians, church, God's Word, Scripture, Stop Living Like You’re Lost Part 2, Truth
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Not An Obstacle, But A Heritage
We are expecting our third child, due to join us in about a month. Life is full, a little stressful, often mundane, and infinitely more purposeful and joyful than it would be without our kids. I’m tired a lot of the time, but that’s a small price to pay in exchange for my daughter’s unbelievable sense of humor, the weight of my son on my chest when he snuggles after his nap, and the rolls and kicks I feel in my abdomen as I write.
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Tagged children, Christianity, dink, family, Fatherhood, feminism, heritage, motherhood, Not an Obstacle but a Heritage, parenthood
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