We all have heard about the importance of the father’s presence in the home, about the horrible consequences when husbands and fathers go AWOL. The above graphic from fathers.com says it all. A home without a father averages about four times the poverty rate of a two-parent household. Levels of
Public education: prey of the new sexual ideology. The LGBT community wants to redefine marriage. The transgender community wants to redefine human sexuality and even eliminate the concepts of binary sexuality and traditional marriage from our vocabulary and culture. All of the above are seeking to influence children in the
Genesis 1:26-27 reveals, among many other truths, that before the creation of the world, the three persons of the Godhead lived in community, communication and communion. In John 17:24 Jesus says that the Father loved the Son “before the foundation of the world.” Being made in the image of God,
The day before returning to Colombia, we flew to Houston to a hospital renowned for leukemia treatment. They did 40 exams and we had the opportunity to talk with the department director. When the test results began to arrive, this doctor told us that he really did not know what
When we go through traumatic or crisis situations in life, we always wonder if there is a purpose in all that, or why it happens to us. Pain is the greatest vulnerability in human beings. For me, pain is the state that most blurs the image of God and prevents
A friend in India sent me a number of articles on the issue of the relationship between men and women to explain why he holds an egalitarian position (men and women are equal in being and in function). One of the articles, “Differences between Complementarian and Egalitarian Positions,” describes the
What is God’s view of singleness? Where does the single person fit in God’s plan for marriage and family formation? I often hear that question from unmarried people—especially women—after they hear me lecture on the maternal heart of God, or read my book Nurturing the Nations. This question is worthy
In the previous post we noted that in the Garden of Eden, the man and woman were naked, yet there was no moral guilt or shame. There was only glory and joy. But something happened in paradise. At the instigation of “the intruding liar” in the garden, the man and
Women, and not women only, lose in the current sexualized climate of the West. Here we continue from our previous post unpacking this tweet from D.C. McAllister during the Kavanaugh hearings. Abortion is their sacrament. See Mary Eberstadt’ excellent argument: The First Church of Secularism and Its Sexual Sacraments. It’s
One of our most popular posts is entitled Turning Out the Lights in Japan: Negative Population Growth. Darrow wrote it after a Japanese physician told him, “We are turning out the lights in Japan. Japanese are no longer having children.” Click below to see the animation version at our YouTube channel.
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