Baptist Press - "A major seven-year study published in a mainstream journal is challenging the secular notion that gays and lesbians cannot change their sexual orientation."
Why Para-Church Ministries are the Best and Worst Thing to Happen to the Church
Plilcooke.com - "In the early decades of the 20th century – for the most part – the church dropped the ball. Secular philosophy, spiritual anemia, poor leadership, locked-in traditions, and more were keeping the church from making a real impact in the culture. In some cases, local churches farmed out the work of the Great Commission to their respective denominations, but even many of those efforts were poorly executed. Seeing that impotence, a generation of entrepreneurial thinkers moved outside the Church to accomplish what the church wouldn’t do."
Religious Discrimination Incidents Doubled in US Since 1997
Christian Post - "Though a country whose First Amendment mandates the freedom of religious practice, the United States of America appears to be suffering from rising religious discrimination in the workplace.According to statistics compiled by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, religious discrimination incidents have doubled over the past 13 years."
Five things I can't do (and you can't either!)
Wesleyan life - "Most of the things that sap my time and energy as a pastor—or in any aspect of life—are things I can't do by try anyway.
I don't mean dreams that are too big or goals that are too challenging. Those represent things I might accomplish if I work diligently and God blesses the effort.
I'm referring to things that nobody can do—they simply cannot be done.
How often have you wasted time, burned energy, or lost sleep on one of these fruitless activities?"
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