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October 2007
Tolerance is the virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.” (G.K. Chesterton)
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October 2007
Pastor Joe shocked the congregation when he announced his resignation from the church and a planned move...
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September 2007
According to the book Work to Live,if you live in the following nations, a certain number of vacation...
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September 2007
According an old fable, attributed to Aesop, a dog was carrying a bone as he crossed a bridge. He looked...
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September 2007
According to a recent “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” column, a man named Nicael Holt of Australia sold...
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September 2007
In the latter days of the Vietnam War, an American Colonel named Earl Woods made a promise...
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September 2007
In Reed, North Carolina, you will find the Reed gold mine. It was first excavated in 1799 when Conrad...
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Marriage, Family
Marriage, Family
In a recent survey reported by the media, the Pew Research Center surveyed 2,020 adults concerning their views of marriage and childbearing. The results were quite enlightening. Non-marital childbearing numbers rose to 36.8 percent of all births in 2005, up from 5.3 percent in 1960. In the 1990s, only about a third of these non-marital births were to women co-habiting with their partners. Now almost half of all out-of-wedlock births are to women co-habiting with their partners. In addition, 47 percent of people in their 30s and 40s have lived in a co-habiting relationship. In spite of the rise in co-habitation, 71 percent of those surveyed think that births to unwed women are a “big problem” and 59 percent believe unmarried couples having children is bad for society. The task is challenging for the contemporary church to hold up the ideals of a Christian marriage and family to a society that continues to de-value them.
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