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Why you should remain a virgin until you are married Teens having sex. It's in the movies, on TV, and splattered on the pages of magazines. It seems that having sex makes many teens feel that they are mature, popular, normal, or loved. Teens often mistake sex for love - and fondling for affection. But…

In Peter Jackson’s rendition of Tolkien’s, The Hobbit, one of the early scenes gives a homey picture of life. Bilbo Baggins, a middle-aged bachelor hobbit, sits down alone one evening at his table in his comfortable home of Bag End. Bilbo loves all trappings of his agrarian civilization. His well-appointed…

Apparently, in some states in the USA, it is still illegal to engage in unmarried sex . . . or fornication. The democratic led Virginia State Legislature recently repealed the “crime of fornication” in their state, a legal loophole still on the books that states only married couples could have sex. Currently…

Kurt Pilgeram of California contracted with Alcor Life Extension Foundation to cryogenically preserve his late father. People do this hoping that at some later time, after a cure for whatever killed the patient is discovered, they can be unfrozen and cured. Pilgeram discovered the company only preserved…

A man who lost his wife and two children in Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is dealing with his grief by trying to find out what happened to the aircraft. Ghislain Wattrelos and other relatives of the people aboard Flight 370 visited Madagascar to ask residents of the coast to keep looking for debris from…

Cryogenics is a growing industry because of the number of individuals who believe that science will eventually eliminate all disease and provide a means of reanimating a deceased human being. True believers of cryogenics pay up to $200,000 for their entire bodies or heads to be frozen in temperatures…

Lyle Jeffs, the Utah polygamist leader who was to stand trial for food-stamp fraud has gone on the lam. When he failed to show for the trial his lawyer explained, “he may have experienced the miracle of Rapture.” Besides Enoch and Elijah, those left on the earth probably won’t experience individual rapture.…

Major League Baseball executives say they have difficulty faulting players for trying to gain an edge by using illegal drugs that enhance their performance. Cleveland Indians President Mark Shapiro said, “The mentality to do whatever possible exists throughout society, in any free market system, the…

Famed cosmologist and author Stephen Hawking has asserted his belief that there is no heaven, and stated that he dismisses the idea of an afterlife as well. Hawking has challenged religious beliefs in the past, and affirmed his philosophy in a recent interview with the U.K. Guardian. In the interview,…

A new study by Chaeyoon Lim, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, indicates that one of the keys to happiness is church attendance, more particularly, having a circle of friends at that church. “Attending religious services regularly and having close friends in…

My wife asked me this morning, "Whacha doin' today?" I said, "Nothing." She said, "That's what you did yesterday." I said, "I wasn't finished." Mikey's Funnies, 3-17-09

WINNENDEN, Germany — The 17-year-old gunman who went on a rampage at his former school and killed 15 people before taking his own life warned of his plans in an Internet chatroom only hours before, officials said Thursday. Suspect Tim K. told others in the chat room that he was "sick of this life" and…

Martin Luther King Jr. expressed this with promise in a sermon at the funeral of the four young girls killed by a racist’s bomb in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963: I hope you can find some consolation from Christianity’s affirmation that death is not the end. Death is not a period that ends the great sentence…

1Thess 4.16 …the dead in Christ shall rise first. Have you ever played with a magnet. They are fun. Do you ever wonder why some stuff sticks to the magnet and other stuff does not? The stuff that is attracted to the magnet is made of the same stuff that the magnet is. Watch. The nails that stayed in…

MORALITY Monday, April 14, 2003, the City Council of an affluent gated community in Southern California voted to repeal a 46 year-old ban on immorality. In effect, the repeal allows adultery within the city limits. A resident of the city of 1,900, spotted the law while perusing the municipal code and…

INFLUENCE In their book, "Lead Like Jesus", Blanchard and Hodges write, "Leadership is a process of influence. Anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of people toward accomplishing a goal in their personal or professional lives, you are taking on the role of a leader." —"Lead…

END OF THE WORLD Some residents of San Antonio, Texas, who saw a strange sight in the sky, believed the end of the world might be near. During a recent thunderstorm, rain was falling, when suddenly a bright white stroke of lightning flashed to the ground. Immediately afterward, a dark gray cloud mushroomed…

DEATH After Greg Delmain graduated from college, but before he could start his new job, he had to bring evidence of his U.S. citizenship to a clerk at the company. The clerk took his driver’s license and jotted down some notes in his file. She gave it back to Greg and took his birth certificate. For…

FINAL WORDS. Christ's Farewell to Those He Loved Part One Calming Troubled Hearts Don't you wish you could turn anxiety on and off like a faucet? Wouldn't it be great if you could worry from 9:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and then shut it down so that you could get a good night's rest? Unfortunately, we cannot…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…

#1 — The Conflict In God’s FamilyPlease press the microphone to listen to the talk. Requires the free RealPlayer®. Installation instructions available. “The Conflict In God’s Family” — another look at the Biblical basis for understanding the plan of salvation as God’s provision for restoring peace in…

SECTION OUTLINE FOURTEEN (ROMANS 14) Paul discusses the believer’s responsibilities toward those Christians who are weak in the faith. I. No Believer Should Be Judged by Another Believer Down Here (14:1–8). A. We are not to criticize others’ legalism (14:1–8). 1. The rules (14:1–6) a. Don’t judge in…

Suppose that we were to take a mixture of metals and scatter them, burying some of them and strewing others over the ground here and there. We disperse gold and silver, copper and zinc, iron and tin. Then we take a powerful electromagnet and pass it over the area where the mixture of metals is scattered.…

Living above the Line A Celebration of our Union with Christ Rev Greg Byrd Faith Temple Baptist Church Poetry Texas Living Above the Line Introduction Introduction Colossians 1:27 says Christ in you, the hope of Glory. In fact Christ in us is our only hope of eternal Glory, The union of the believer…