After years of steady growth in acceptance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and agenda, a new poll has found that support is eroding with more people reporting feelings of discomfort about LGBTQ issues.
Monthly Archives: March 2018
The Christian Response to the “Yoga Wars”
There are a lot of valuable lessons to be learned by the ongoing “yoga wars” – the decades long battle between Christians who believe yoga is just exercise, and those who believe it’s a Hindu spiritual practice. One side has a tendency to look down on yoga enthusiasts as somehow less Christian then they are, while the other sees anyone who opposes their yoga workouts as “religious fanatics.” Thankfully, the Bible gives us clear instruction about how to conduct ourselves charitably when confronting conflict – regardless of what side we’re on.
Study Finds Self-Esteem Lacking in Younger Women
While older women are better able to understand the importance of self-respect and to know how to ignore the seemingly perfect women found only in magazines, a new study has found that younger woman are still struggling to cope with negative feelings about themselves.
Lenten Journey Day 20
March 5
Do Not Hunger for Special Graces
“It is the most cogent proof of our overweening pride to think that God gives us His best gifts just because we hanker after them. Humility is the price of God’s most precious favors. ‘Every proud man is an abomination to the Lord’ (Prov. 16:5). ‘God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble’ (James 4:6).”
Lawmakers Protect Dangerous Abortion Clinic
A Planned Parenthood facility in St. Louis, Missouri sent its 68th woman to the hospital last Saturday, making it one of the most dangerous abortion clinics in the country.
Lenten Journey Day 19
March 4
Walk By the Light of Divine Faith
“A life of strong, living faith is a life of unwavering submission to Divine Providence. Convinced of this truth, we will never permit the dictates of human prudence to enter into the equation of our conformity to the divine will.”
YMCA and Non-Christian Fitness Programs
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ST writes: “With all the new age classes;{yoga, tai chi, pilates), and martial arts;(tai chi, karate), and SWAT taking place at the YMCA and any health club I’ve looked into, I avoid going to them even to ride a stationary bike or walk on the treadmill. People think I’m crazy, but I don’t want to be in an environment that will put my soul in danger. That is most important. I was told by a priest that as long as I don’t participate in these classes, that it would be OK to work out in these facilities. I’m not feeling that he is correct. What do you think?”
Lenten Journey Day 18
March 3
Love God Above All Else
“Great souls who live for God alone are usually silent and solitary even in the midst of the maddening crowd’s ignoble strife. They are in the world, but not of the world. Fully dedicated to the service of God, they are dead to the world and dead to themselves.”
Billy Graham’s Final Crusade
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“America’s Pastor,” Billy Graham, will embark on his final crusade today when he is buried next to his wife in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Lenten Journey Day 17
March 2
Learn to Use the Grace God Gives You
“Mary’s surpassing sanctity flowed from the permanent dedication of herself to God at the moment of reason and her constant correspondence with actual grace thereafter.”
