How is Your Teen Wired?: Your Teen’s Sensory Preference:
“Sensory preference refers to the type of sensory input that registers most quickly in one’s brain. Unimpaired, we’re able to use all the senses. But each of us tends to rely on sight, sound or touch for more of our “data collecting” than on our other senses. We feel most comfortable and understood when we get data through our preferred system — visual, auditory or kinesthetic.”
An excellent article on capatilizing on one’s strengths.
The Debate Between the Spiritual or the Physical World
Sex: Guilty Pleasure or Godly Pleasure? – TrueU.org : Men’s Hall:
“In my last article on 1 Corinthians, I looked a little at some of the various contexts that characterized Corinth during the first century A.D. One of them involved these two opposing groups: the hedonists, who thought that various perversities were just fine, and the ascetics, who thought that things having to do with the physical world (e.g. sex) were inherently evil, whereas spiritual things were inherently good, or at least better.”
An interesting article on the extremes of good and evil. I disagree that we are to be made righteoous. We already have been in believing in Christ’s resurrection.
The Motives for Confession VS Just Being Reminded of Grace
Mere Accountability
“God-honoring accountability does not circumvent the cross. Instead, it draws all of us toward holiness through faith in its sufficiency in both victory and defeat. If we sin, Christ offers us forgiveness through the cross. If we succeed, it is because Christ has made us new creatures through the cross. The sacrifice of Christ has purchased both our holiness and our forgiveness.”
The first part of the article gives a lot of the arguments for the motivations of accountability. However the second part seems to contradict itself when it talks about pursuing, promoting, constant fighting, asking God for conviction to kill the flesh when it already has been in Christ. The discussion of temptation is valid as on just resists by faith in the promises ofGod and the Finished work of Christ.
Why Christians do not dominate the world.
2006-09-26 12:23:29 PM Tatsuma [TotalFark]
muninsfire: It’s on account of those people who believe their way is best, and refuse to compromise, or even think of talking over their differences.
Definitely. I heard a rabbi once on Talk Rabbi that struck me. A man called to talk about how JC was the son of G-d and he said
“Listen, I’m trying to turn Jews into better Jews, into observant Jews. You go on into making Christians good Christians, I make Jews good Jews, someone tries to make Muslims good Muslims and we’ll all live in peace. Deal?”
I wish more people thought like that.
Stop trying to impose your values
Stop trying to convert the world
Work on your own house. Make Christians and Christianity better. If all Christians acted like JC, you can be sure they currently dominate the planet and people would flock to them.
The above comment is written by a young Canadian Jewish man from Montreal. He is a devote Jew who has memorized the entire OT law and is a stunningly brilliant debater. He is currently in Israel in training to join her military — voluntarily.
While I can’t agree with all of it (the second last and the last line are completely contradictory for example), the last line caught my attention. Even a Jewish person can recognize that Jesus had it right — so right that if we simply did what He called us to do (to love others as He did), Christianity would be the only world religion.
Isn’t it interesting how the Church seems to have been the last to get the potential we are sitting on???
Most people assume that men are just less religious than women, but this is untrue. Other religions have little trouble attracting males. Jesus was a magnet to men. But today, few men are living for Christ, even as many are dying for Allah. Why do rival faiths inspire male allegiance, while ours breeds male indifference?
A business guru once said, “Your system is perfectly designed to give you the results you’re getting.” Christianity’s primary delivery system, the local church, is perfectly designed to reach women and older folks. That’s why our pews are filled with them. But this church system fails to stir men’s hearts, so men (especially masculine ones) stay away.
What do I mean? Most churches offer a safe, nurturing community, an oasis of stability and predictability. Studies show that women and seniors are the groups most likely to seek these things. Our comforting congregations provide women with what they long for, so naturally they show up in large numbers.
On the other hand, men and young adults are drawn to risk, challenge, and daring. While our official mission is one of adventure, the actual mission of most congregations is making people feel comfortable and safe – especially longtime members (Pastors, can I have an amen?) Church insiders routinely block anything challenging or innovative because it might make people feel uncomfortable or unsafe. This caution keeps the peace in the short term, but it drives men and young adults away over the long term.
You know, someone had to say it…
The Issues of the Singleness Calling
Get Married, Young Man
“t’s significant that an elder should be one who manages his own family well (1 Tim 3:4). Paul apparently saw this as a litmus test of how a man will lead in God’s church. By trying to love my wife as Christ loves me (sacrificially, intentionally, perseveringly), I am blessed by reaping the good fruit that comes from a joyful partner and friend. Likewise, my failures are amplified because both she and I suffer. “
This is a good article on the questions of determining singleness or marriage. I find it contradicts in places, especially that it is by God’s grace that we reflect our growth through the Lord’s redemptive efforts. It is helpful to know some of God’s desires come slowly and seem unnatural. However Jesus will make it unmistakably clear.
Aquinas believed it was possible to discern truths about God based on reason (human rationality) and revelation (divinely revealed truths not available to reason). Aquinas lived at a time when Aristotle’s teachings were popular and so used this as basis for his theological writings.
This is a foundational piece of philosophy for much of the Roman Catholic and Protestant Church today in that it details the fundamental premise that existence implies origin.
Later philosophers have disputed this — thinking that it is just as easy to postulate an eternal universe as an eternal God. However, such can be easily addressed through the realization that our assumptions about the cosmology and it’s functionality may, themselves, be limited to that universe and, as such, incomplete. In such, an eternal origin (AKA. God) is only slightly more plausible — but enough to make the examination of nature for signs of created (as opposed to random) origin a worthy pursuit.
As such, this is a critical piece of philosophy that everyone in the church should understand for it forms the philosophical fork in the road between Christianity and atheism.
“The timing of the initiation of hormone therapy is important in significantly reducing the risk of the coronary heart disease (diseases of the arteries in the heart), and there are significant protective benefits if a woman begins hormone therapy near the time of menopause (average age is 51 years). This study, ‘Hormone Therapy and Coronary Heath Disease: The Role of Time since Menopause and Age at Hormone Initiation,’ was published in the Journal of Women’s Health in January, 2006.
Similar to the above findings, women between the ages of 50 to 59 who take estrogen have a lower risk of developing heart disease. Another key conclusion to this study is that women starting estrogen at greater than age 60 will not have a heart protective benefit from hormone therapy, and, in fact, my have an increased risk for heart disease. This study, ‘Conjugated Equine Estrogens and Coronary Heart Disease,’ was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in February, 2006.
If a woman starts taking estrogen around the time menopause begins, and continues to do so for three to ten years, her risk of Alzheimer’s disease is significantly reduced. This study, ‘Hormone Replacement Therapy and Incidence of Alzheimer Disease in Older Woman: The Cache County Study,’ was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in November, 2002.
Women who take estrogen alone (without progesterone) have a reduced risk of invasive breast cancer. Menopausal women who are on hormone therapy and who have not undergone a hysterectomy (that is, their uterus is still intact) usually take progesterone along with estrogen, because progesterone reduces the risk of cancer of the endometrium (the lining of the uterus). Menopausal women who no longer have a uterus take only estrogen. While numerous studies have suggested that estrogen alone carries an increased risk of breast cancer, the arm of the WHI study among women who took estrogen alone found that estrogen did not increase the risk of breast cancer, although there was an increase in the frequency of mammography screening. “
This is intersting because we often only hear the negative.
Understanding Your Teen and Letting Go: Difficult Teen Stages:
“The eighteenth year is the time of greatest conflict between parent and child, typically. But the thirteenth and fourteenth years commonly are the most difficult twenty- our months in life for the youngster. It is during this time that self-doubt and feelings of inferiority reach an all-time high, amidst the greatest social pressures yet experienced.”
This is a good article of understanding the pressures of teens.
Grace in Activism
Ask Theophilus: Truth, Love, and Other Details
Ask Theophilus: Truth, Love, and Other Details :
“he important question is not whether he ardently believes something, but what it is that he ardently believes; the Christian faith doesn’t believe in those things! As the early Christian writer Lactantius wrote in his Institutes, ‘Religion is to be defended not by putting to death but by dying, not by cruelty but by patient endurance, not by guilt but by good faith: for the former belong to evils, but the latter to goods, and it is necessary for that which is good to have place in religion and not that which is evil. If you wish to defend religion by bloodshed, and by tortures, and by guilt, it will no longer be defended but will be polluted and profaned.’ The upshot is that cruelty isn’t caused by believing things; it’s caused by believing cruel things. “
This is an inspired article regarding compassion towards those of different beliefs. It encompasses Pascal’s wager. Living as though there were no god will keep you form discovering Him and your humanity. When I prayed abut judging values God seemed to say no. It is important to surrender our beliefs to God and allowing His way in us. Another’s beliefs are God’s business not ours.
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