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Who Is Teaching Your Children

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  And Exactly What Are They Teaching Them? There is something that slips into homes without making a sound. It does not announce itself. It does not look dangerous at first. It simply settles in through everyday living until it becomes a pattern nobody questions. It is the habit of assuming. Parents begin to assume their children are being taught what they need to know simply because life is moving forward. The child is getting older, going to school, attending activities, sitting under some form of instruction, and so it feels like everything important must be covered somewhere along the way. But assumption is not teaching. Assumption is not training. Assumption is not formation. It is simply the idea that something is happening without making sure it actually is. There is an old saying people repeat, usually with a bit of humor, but it carries a warning that is far more serious than the way it sounds. Never assume, because when you assume, you make an “ass” out of “u” and “me....
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When Heaven Goes Quiet

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Silence in the life of faith is one of those things that feels like a blank page, but in Scripture it rarely behaves like a blank page at all.  It behaves more like soil that has been turned over.  On the surface, nothing is visible yet.  No growth, no movement, no answer you can point to.  But underneath, something is being rearranged, softened, and prepared for what could not grow before.  The Bible keeps showing that God is not only present in the loud moments of revelation, but also deeply active in the quiet stretches where people are left waiting without explanation. One of the clearest stories of this is Elijah.  In 1 Kings 18 , he stands on Mount Carmel in a dramatic confrontation with the prophets of Baal.  Fire falls from heaven, the people shout that the LORD is God, and it looks like everything is about to shift nationally and spiritually.  But almost immediately after that high moment, everything collapses emotionally for Elijah....
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Choosing God's Way - Resisting Sexual Temptation

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  A Young Person's Guide to Resisting Sexual Temptation and Walking in Purity   Every generation has faced sexual pressure in one form or another.  The settings change, the language changes, and the tools around it change, but the struggle itself is not new.  What is different today is how constant and immediate the pressure has become, especially through technology and the way messages now reach young people almost instantly and repeatedly. Everywhere they turn, they are surrounded by messages that tell them sex before marriage is normal, harmless, and even necessary.  Television shows promote it. Movies celebrate it.  Music glorifies it.   Social media constantly pushes images and ideas that encourage young people to follow their feelings rather than follow God.   Because these messages are repeated so often, many teenagers begin to think that God's standards are outdated or impossible to follow.  Yet the truth is that God's Word...
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God Still Rules The Kingdoms of Men

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  There are moments in history when people begin to sense something beneath everything that's happening around them.  It is not always something that can be proven easily or written into a formula or a news report.  It does not always fit neatly into charts, timelines, or predictions.  It is more like a sense that history itself is carrying weight, that events are not just random collisions of human decisions, and that nations rise and fall in ways that feel larger than what human planning alone can explain, even when people try very hard to explain them afterward. People feel this in different ways.  Sometimes it comes through crisis that shakes what they thought was stable.  Sometimes through watching governments shift in ways that feel sudden or unexpected.  Sometimes through personal events that make the wider world feel less predictable than it used to be.  But underneath it all there is this deep awareness that time is not empty, and histor...
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When Discipline Fails

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  The Cost of Untrained Children and Absent Responsibility There is a growing concern that cannot be ignored anymore, because it is no longer just “youth behavior” or “a phase of rebellion.”  What we are seeing in too many places is the result of a deeper breakdown in parental training, discipline, and responsibility.  When teenagers are setting fires, taking over streets, or openly disregarding curfews, the issue is not simply the child, it is the environment that shaped, or failed to shape, that child. Children are not self-governing by design.  They are not born with restraint, foresight, nor respect for consequence.  These are qualities that are built over time through consistent training, correction, and supervision.  When that process is absent or inconsistent, something else takes its place: impulse, peer pressure and influence, and whatever the surrounding culture happens to reward (today, it’s anything goes).  And once impulse becomes habit,...
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