Below you'll find a list of all posts from February, 2016
So what is there about Donald Trump that makes sense? He reflects the age of truth invention- what my wife calls truth decay; the hypermodern world. He declares he is a Christian referring to “that little cracker” in a way that only a six year old typically refers to the Eucharist. He rants at the Pope declaring he is a …
An attractive 15 year female gives a testimony at a Christian youth conference telling of dating Seth when she was 14 years old. She and Seth had sex, felt guilty about the sexual relations and began reading the Bible together. After a few weeks “It became clear to us that God wants nothing more for us but to feel good …
The unitive-love nurturing – and procreative purposes of sexual intercourse distinguish us from the animal world. We are not like guppies who cooperate for a moment – the mating female looks for a colorful male with orange spots on his flanks, after mating the male immediately swims off. After birth the baby guppies also immediately swim off. There is no …
Who are we to make an unconditional promise to give our lives away? How can we promise to be faithful when we are going to change? Do we really mean to make a promise that is not in our power to keep? All of these questions suggest that marriage is an act of faith, not in marriage, but in God. …
Forget homosexual marriage for a minute; let’s talk about what happened to marriage within the “crooked straight” community during the last forty-five years. We begin with the Texas no-fault divorce statute of 1970 – the most casual divorce statute in the world. A law professor of mine said in 1980, “The sanctity of marriage is nonexistent.” Marriage, even then, was …
