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Would it surprise you to learn that according to new research, men and women who harbored doubts about marrying their partners have a higher rate of divorce after four years of marriage? It sounds like one of those no-brainer discoveries. But it reminded me of what one of my graduate school professors said some decades… Continue reading
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The importance of free speech
We live in a world of diverse ideas and opinions. Everyone seems to be an expert in something. The concept of right and wrong in a pluralistic environment can seem so rhetorical and passé. Absolute truth does not exist (or at least, out of our grasp) and relativism reigns supreme in terms of the prevailing… Continue reading
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Originally posted on The Inglorius Padre Steve's World: It was a bad deal from the beginning but it was so tempting. Back in the 1970s Evangelical Christians, put off by many policies enacted by both Democrats and Republicans and led by men like Jerry Falwell, Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson, James Robison and Francis Schaefer began… Continue reading
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Encouragement of the Day
“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” – Wittgenstein Continue reading
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Encouragement of the Day
“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” – Wittgenstein Continue reading
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Encouragement of the Day
“If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.” – Oswald Chambers Continue reading
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The importance of words
We have all heard it. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” This childhood rhyme, so often spoken in playgrounds and in public, tell us that physical things that can physically bruise us have the power to hurt us, but the ethereal, abstract, intangible nature of words won’t. Sadly,… Continue reading
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Encouragement of the Day
“We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.” – Saint Augustine Continue reading
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Encouragement of the Day
“We do not need the grace of God to stand crises, human nature and pride are sufficient, we can face the strain magnificently; but it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a saint, to go through drudgery as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored… Continue reading
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