Culture Wars: Pornography

PORNOGRAPHY
Pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry. And guess who’s the top video porn producer in the world? You guessed it…the U.S. The pornography industry is larger than the revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and EarthLink. Every second – $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography. Every second [...]

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Culture Wars: The Real Population Threat

The Real Population Threat
Albert Mohler
 
For well over a century, many prophets of doom have predicted world overpopulation would lead to ecological disaster, famine, poverty and other woes.  As Philip Longman points out in the March 24, 2009 edition of USA Today, the world’s population is expected to hit 7 billion by 2012, up from the [...]

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Culture Wars:A Refusal to Shun the World – John MacArthur

 This is a long article and while it is a slam against the church, it is a war raging in every believer who has asked, “what am I doing and why?”
A Refusal to Shun the World – John MacArthur
Part of an essay by Dr.John MacArthur called ” The Rise of Reckless Faith“
 
 
“We have already hinted [...]

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Culture Wars: Relate to Culture (Tim Keller)

Relate to the Culture – Tim Keller
In his final session with Newfrontiers Keller highlighted that we find relating to the culture to be an increasing problem in the West. We now have a post-Christian culture. The Anglo-saxons struggled with Christianity because it believed in forgiveness and compassion for the weak. They felt that culture couldn’t [...]

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Culture Wars: Reformed Theology and Reformed Culture

Reformed Theology and Reformed Culture
I like this from Ray Ortlund:
I like Reformed theology. I believe it’s what the Bible teaches. But I don’t like Reformed culture. I don’t believe it’s what the Bible teaches.
Reformed theology is all about grace deciding to treat people better than they deserve, for the sheer glory of it all. Sometimes [...]

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Culture Wars: Seperating Ethics from Science

Separating Science from Ethics
Fort Wayne Catholic bishop John D’Arcy John D’Arcy spoke on Obama’s recent actions allowing the federal government to directly fund the destruction of “embryonic human beings in order to advance stem cell research.” He regards it as an imposition of the will of the powerful on the powerless. Oppression, in other words. [...]

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Culture Wars: The Recession — A Revealer of True Community

The Recession — A Revealer of True Community
Could it be that one of God’s purposes in this recession is to reveal whether we are living in true community with one another as Christians?
In Acts 4:32-33, the early church is described as having “one heart and one soul” and God’s “grace was upon them all.”  They [...]

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Culture Wars: Disciplined Duty (Piper)

Disciplined Duty vs. the Lie of Legalism
(John Piper)
But the hard truth is that most Christians don’t pray very much. They pray at meals—unless they’re still stuck in the adolescent stage of calling good habits legalism. They whisper prayers before tough meetings. They say something brief as they crawl into bed. But very few set aside [...]

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Culture Wars: Utah = Porn Capital?

Is Utah the porn capital of the United States?
The (Salt Lake City)Deseret News reports on a study indicating that Utah leads the nation in consumption of pornography.
A Harvard academic authored the survey. But is Zion really a porn lover’s paradise? I doubt it. This study is highly, highly dubious, for several reasons. Here are a [...]

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Culture Wars: When Government Gets Big, Religion Shrinks +

Maybe we can simply make more red tape for the Middle East, lets send some politicians over.
More Government, Less God
University of Virginia sociologist Bradford Wilcox has a fascinating new article on a recent global study that shows an inverse relationship between the size of government and the religiosity of its citizens: as government grows, religion [...]

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