Whenever I visit my family in Canada, I remind myself that what many Americans would consider forthright, many Canadians would consider overbearing.
You know all the surveys say that evangelicals have the best sex life of any other group.
We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.
I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.
The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.
Don't punish people who repent; heal them. I don't believe that private sin requires public rebuke or removal from office if repentance is taking place. However, when no evidence of true repentance exists, then discipline is in order.
If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election.
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.