Pastor Mike wrote:
Everybody with half a brain knows you can't support a family of twenty one on a single paycheck. They're living in a fantasy world, purchased and paid for by a television studio. Before their lucky break, Jim Bob was no stranger to handouts and the food pantry. Life in the Duggar family is as fake as an episode of Gilligan's Island.
If they were black people, not white religious nuts, the media wouldn't be paying them big bucks in order to portray them as a "loving Christian family;" They would be calling Michelle a welfare queen and throwing Jim Bob in jail for being behind on his child support payments.

I'm just a little confused.
I highly suggest that (at least) Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Street-Preacher acquire the other's email address. That way the "Comments" of almost *every* article won't be compromised with irrelevant discussion.

I don't have any problem with the discussions, I just plead that they be "taken outside," to a more appropriate place.
At the least, I beg that you two adhere to the original purpose of the "Comments," and keep the discussion, as much as possible, centered on the news articles that are immediately imminent.

Thank you both for your consideration of my suggestion!

Frank Dombrosky wrote:
First, this:
There's far too much straying from the subject matter in these discussions. I tire of the same silly back and forth arguments about things that have nothing to do (except in certain minds) with the news item. At times I've seen as many as 80-90% of the posts completely removed from the original subject. In my opinon, this should not be.
Now, this:
I'm glad that there are some men left that are not afraid to take a stand for what is right. Many preachers won't call homosexuality sin because they'd rather be pleasant and popular. I salute Mr. Cain for his boldness.
Recently, I emailed the CEO of a large company that supports the homosexual agenda. I told him that his company is not "inclusive" as it claims to be. If he was really inclusive he should also support incest and sex with animals. After all, some people think such things are normal. Don't stop with sodomy, include every form of perversion while you're at it. No response. I don't expect one.
We need to be aggresive when confronting those who support such destructive vices as sodomy. They don't have the truth. We do!

Michael Hranek wrote:
Eric Ludy author of "The Bravehearted Gospel" …address a youth gathering on the subject of purity because of comments he made of loving a wife he hadn't even met yet and keeping himself pure for the one Christ would give him.…
If you would like to get an idea of his teaching, the teaching of a man with a heart after God he has several videos on YouTube and at Ellerslie.com
I trust what God speaks to your heart through this man will be a blessing and an ecouragement to you. I hope to see him on SermonAudio someday.

Michael Hranek wrote:
This is only a short step away from ECT
It is shameful when pastors don't educate and warn their members of all this.

kenny wrote:
I can assure you from first hand experience that these homeschool 'conferences' are nothing more than organized opportunities for charlatans and fly-by-night companies to exploit (mainly) Christians with gimmickery and silliness for profit.

Forgiven wrote:
I made the biggest mistake of my life and went through m-f surgery. My transition was so complete that no one can tell. However, 7 years later, I repented of my sin, and the Lord gave me a new heart. He changed my desires and now I serve Him only - and I've been celebate ever since. Even though I'm stuck with the body I have mutilated with the persona I have created, not knowing how to change back, He has forgiven me by His grace alone by faith alone in Christ alone. I live to glorify Him only and anxiously await that day when my resurrection body will erase all the damage I have done to this one. I have repented and turned from every known sin, and live in union with Christ - but the consequences of what I have done will continue to haunt me until He takes me home. Forgiven, yes - but living out the consequences of my sin.… But thanks be to God, and the Lord & Savior Jesus Christ, that all things are possible through Him, and that He CAN turn ashes into beauty.

Ernoue wrote:
"Dr. Philip Ryken said it well when he wrote in Discovering God in Stories from the Bible:
“Whatever else it may be, evolution is not a theory of origins. It is a theory of changes. It tries to explain how one creature evolved into another. But it cannot explain why there should be any creatures in the first place. Or why there should be anything at all, for that matter.�
Indeed, I believe that evolution that “explains� development of things visible, apart from God cannot therefore be true. Moreover to introduce these ideas brings despair in the human heart and mind. And it brings something worse: it dehumanizes a person."

Danielle wrote:
What an amazing answer to prayer!

Pro: A bill was actually passed to allow the Bible in schools!!!! That's a step forward no matter what.

Con: As others have said, the teachers who are teaching those classes are very probably going to be unsaved. That defeats the purpose, doesn't it.

But at least we now have a precedent, right? This is an example to other states to do the same thing.

We should pray that God would glorify himself through the teaching of these classes, and pray that other states would pass the same bill, but improved much more.