Tag Archives: Culture
To Thee I Pledge Thee My…Trough??
The parties shall remain nameless, but since both are now deceased, I feel at liberty to repeat this story. At the wedding rehearsal the evening before the big event, the bride and groom were practicing their traditional vows. Apparently, the groom was unfamiliar with the term “troth,” an old English term meaning “my word”...
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Culture, family, John Gottman, Malcolm Gladwell, Marriage, marriage vows, vows
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The Incredible Shrinking Me
We are all infected from birth with an insatiable desire to be somebody. Even shyness is but an ironic twist on that desire. The Scriptures call it “the pride of life,” and names it as one of three categories under which all sins fall. Our hunger to be recognized or known colors everything we do.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged America, Christianity, Culture, God, Karl Marx, pride, Scott Carey, The Incredible Shrinking Man, utopia
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How Swiftly We Fall
I recently heard a Dua Lipa pop song. (You know this artist, right?) Looked up the lyrics. Wasn’t sure if what I heard was right. It was. Third line is: “G…dammit.” Seriously. Surprised? Don’t be.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Christianity, Culture, Dua Lipa, heart, lyrics, mind, music, Shane Pruitt, Taylor Swift
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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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Christian, Do Your Duty: Vote!
Every American citizen has, among other things, the right and responsibility to vote. If too many fail to take this responsibility seriously, it allows for a few, with bad intentions, to transform the state into an oligarchy or dictatorship!
Posted in Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, America, children, citizen, Culture, duty, elections, family, John Wycliffe, Marriage, Ten Commandments, U.S. Constitution, Voting
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Christians, Stop Living Like You’re Lost!
“Amazing grace! how sweet the sound-that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found. . . .” These opening words from John Newton’s famous gospel song acknowledge the reality of our lost condition without Jesus Christ.
Posted in Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality
Tagged Amazing Grace, anxiety, Christianity, Culture, depression, Gospel, John Newton, Mark Twain
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Local Focus
Why are local elections so uninteresting to voters? Local elections in Illinois generally draw about 16% of registered voters. This is compared to the average turnout over the last 20 years for presidential elections in Illinois of 63% and the average turnout in the off-year elections of 44%.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Education, Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Pornography, Sexuality
Tagged ALA, children, Culture, election, family, Gender Queer, Illinois, Lawn Boy, libraries, local election, Lolita, Presidential election, This Book is Gay, Vladimir Nabokov
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The Problems Solvers Family Workshop: Rebuilding the Foundations of Faith & Family
The Problem Solvers Family Workshop is a two-day conference that is dedicated to rebuilding the foundations of faith and family in Illinois homes. Strong families with strong values are vital to creating a strong state and a strong nation.
Tagged children, Culture, family, homeschooling, Marriage, Saving Families by Restoring the Marriage Culture, The Problem Solvers Family Workshop, Worldly Challenges and Spiritual Solutions
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Culture Can Shift Faster Than You Think
I recently had a speaking tour through three South American countries. As I talked with many Christians in these nations, I heard a lot of discouragement. They feel they simply don’t have the influence they need to see positive change occur. In some of the countries, Marxism has taken root and has a stranglehold on politics and economics. Many Protestant Christians I talked to there are hoping to start Christian schools and desire to legalize homeschooling. This seems daunting as Protestants make up only 10-20% of the population.
Posted in Education, Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Culture, Culture Can Shift Faster Than You Think, Homeschool, homeschooling, Marxism, Patrick Henry, William Wilberforce
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Dealing with Cancel Culture
In the article describing “hate speech” tactics, we saw how people are called haters if they oppose the homosexual or transgender agenda. The intent is to shame the opponents into silence, that the activists’ march through American culture can continue unopposed. In this article, we’ll see how the activists try to punish those who actually do stand against them.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sexuality
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, America, America's Culture, Antifa, Apple, Cancel culture, Christianity, Culture, Facebook, George Orwell, Google Play, Harald Uhlig, homosexuals, Karen Blair, LGBT, Masterpiece Cakesho, Memories Pizza, Niel Golightly, Parler, pronouns, Robert Jensen, sexuality, social media, The Crossing Church, The Internet, transgender, Twitter
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“Rational” Suicide and the “Elderly”
An article in the May, 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society titled “Rational Suicide in Elderly Adults: A Clinician’s Perspective” by Meera Balasubramaniam, MD, MPH recently appeared in both medical and nursing news sources.
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Assisted Suicide, Culture, disability, Meera Balasubramaniam
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Most Americans Don’t Support Extreme Position of Pro-Choice Politicians
Lurking behind the annual split among Americans over the labels “pro-life” and “pro-choice” is a new reality. The fact is that today, whatever label they choose, Americans overwhelmingly support abortion restrictions.
Posted in Sanctity of Life
Tagged Abortion, Culture, Hyde Amendment, John F. Kennedy, politics, Pro-Life
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