At a nearby retail park shoppers at M&S Food have to walk by a noticeboard which announces, "We'll double your donation to celebrate Pride", the reference being to an LGBT charity. The presumption behind this notice is that the customers at M&S will of course wish to celebrate Pride. This presumption, however, is totally dismissive of those who adhere to a Christian worldview.
Read moreLike many others, Dr. Murthy experienced loneliness as a child, and again as an adult.
"It was my wife Alice who stepped in and said, 'Hey I'm worried about you because you're not reaching out to people. You're not socializing with your friends,'" Dr. Murthy recalled.
Read moreIt's normal unless you're dealing with someone who identifies as transgender. If man or woman claims to have, or is diagnosed with, gender dysphoria, they are encouraged to bring their body into conformity with how they feel and what they think, even if those thoughts and feelings do not correspond with reality. Men who feel like they should have been born a woman aren't counseled to live like a man.
Read more-- First, gay activists came out of the closet.
-- Second, they demanded their "rights."
-- Third, they demanded that everyone recognize those "rights."
-- Fourth, they want to strip away the rights of those who oppose them.
-- Fifth, they want to put those who oppose their "rights" into the closet.
Initially, I was met with scorn and derision: "
No one wants to put you in the closet!"
Read moreThe 'born gay, always gay' myth is dead. This has been well known to social scientists for years, but for the Guardian to be taking note, and covering the results honestly is a significant moment. And it has enormous implications for the proposed 'conversion therapy' ban.
What causes sexual fluidity?
If sexuality changes, what causes it? No one really believes that things 'just happen'. We believe in cause and effect. If something has changed, we want to know why.
Read moreHis latest book, Signals of Transcendence (InterVarsity Press), is a slim and razor-sharp study of people's lives and how they understood the "signals of transcendence" that reshaped -- remade -- those lives.
Read moreAccording to the study, individuals who regularly attend church are more likely to have fathers present in their lives.
God doesn't work through corrupt, lukewarm, or dead churches -- He only works through living, vibrant, humble, broken, contrite, Spirit-filled churches who are repentant and humble. Business as usual is not going to cut it in these dire times. LISTEN NOW
Read moreIn our modern days, the same principles are deployed by those who seek to control our world. And Pride Month is surely the most ostentatious, annoying, and egregious of them all. June has been taken over by the avant-garde of the sexual revolution. It is the high feast of the progressive liturgical calendar and almost as long as Lent--though committed of course to self-indulgence, not self-denial.
Read moreIn this shorter clip, Bowling encounters several people who argue with him. It ends with his interaction with the man he prays with. The man says he is married to a woman. He also says that he is a Christian and doesn't believe homosexuality is a sin. Bowling explains that the Bible says homosexuality is sin and that sin separates us from God. He says he's cautioning him away from homosexuality out of love because he wants the man to be close to God because God is love and God is amazing.
Read more"Fidelity" derives from the Latin word "fides," meaning "faith" or "trust." The word implies "strict and continuing faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty," according to Merriam--Webster.
George freely acknowledged that "absolutely no one" gave him any authority to declare June "Fidelity Month." Nonetheless, he has done so, and I believe we as conservatives should join him in this effort.
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