Shedding the Burqa Part 2

March 1, 2013 By 2 Comments
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by Cindy Foster While I waited in the car with the kids, my husband stayed behind and told The Preacher that we would be leaving. This was actually the second time he told him.  The first was the day The Preacher administered ‘The Shunning’

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Quoting Quiverfull: Why God Doesn’t Heal?

March 1, 2013 By 12 Comments
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by Colin Campbell in Meat For Men – February 12, 2013 Wouldn’t it be great if our church services were full of testimonies of God’s healing. Don’t you think that more people would want to know about our great God? Our hospitals that are full of the

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True Love Waits

February 28, 2013 By 14 Comments
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by Betty Crux   If there is anything I have very, very vivid memories of, it’s youth group at either church we attended.   I was a loser, no getting around it.  I wasn’t good looking, and my parents weren’t helping that fact.  I had

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Quoting Quiverfull: Children Rebel Why?

February 28, 2013 By 3 Comments
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by Jay Younts at Shepherd Press – February 22, 2013 Children, then, come next. You are to train your children to know God and then prepare to leave your home. Yet, things get turned around. Husbands and wives often spend time attempting to change each other

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Does Evangelical Christianity Cause Emotional Damage: Part 2

February 27, 2013 By 8 Comments
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by Brucer Gerencser Evangelicalism is dominated by Bible literalism. God said it, and that settles it. There can be no debate, no argument. An infallible God has spoken. Whatever the Bible teaches, the Evangelical is duty bound

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