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A series exploring what the Bible teaches about marriage, singleness, motherhood, the workplace, church ministry, sexual purity, true beauty and relationships.

According Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.” Obviously, the question of our identity remains an important one. And even if one doesn’t create a fake profile, the issue of how we ultimate define ourselves remains an important…

There is no doubt that identity theft is on the rise, and the collecting and selling of personal information, and fake ID’s is now big business. There seems to be a huge market for fake ID’s especially, and not always for illegal immigrants wishing to commit immigration fraud. Seems it might also be…

Authorities say a pet cat that was believed to have died along with its owner and 22 other people in a California mudslide in January 2018, unexpectedly returned. The Animal Shelter Assistance Program in Santa Barbara County said the cat, named Patches, was brought in as a stray, and a microchip scan…

As of January 2020 nineteen States have laws on the books that ban Conversion Therapy, which is “a practice used to try to change sexual orientation or gender identity.” —Jim L. Wilson https://www.foxnews.com/us/utah-bans-lgbtq-conversion-therapy-19th-state Genesis 5:2 (CSB) He created them male and…

Police in Muncie, Indiana stopped James Jason Buck and discovered him carrying methamphetamine. At the station, Buck gave police a false name. There was one problem with his plan. He has a tattoo on his neck with his real name. He ended up with a possession charge and a charge for false informing. As…

A Hong Kong business man set a record when he sold a downtown parking space for $969,000. The man owned four parking spaces in front of a 79-story office building known as The Center. He sold all of them for sums in the high six figures, but the last spot brought the highest price of $969,000. The buyer’s…

Former Ohio University basketball star D.J. Cooper received a two year suspension from European leagues because he failed a drug test. This wasn’t just any failure. The urine from Cooper, a healthy 28-year-old man, tested positive for pregnancy. The Week, August 16, 2019, p. 6 Interestingly, officials…

Nancy Pearcey is The Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University. She is a vocal proponent of Intelligent Design and attributes much of the sexual and gender confusion in our culture to the lack of a belief in a designed order to nature. In her new book, Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions…

An unknown benefactor offered to pay for hotel rooms for a group of homeless people in Chicago when temperatures dipped to 22 degrees below zero. Someone had purchased 100 propane tanks to help the homeless stay warm, but the fire department confiscated the tanks after one of them exploded. The Salvation…

The LGBT group on campus is petitioning for the resignation of Isabella Chow, a UC Berkeley student senator. Why? She chose to abstain from voting on a bill. The bill condemns a leaked from a Trump memo that discourages protection of transgender individuals. She describes the students’ negative responses…

In Shaken: Discovering your True Identity in the Midst of Life’s Storms, Tim Tebow writes, “When your world is shaken, when the plans and dreams you’ve created, perhaps even banked on, get obliterated, when the path on which you walk is moving in an unknown and a particularly unwanted direction, what…

Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager are both a part of the internet news media. They also share their Jewish faith. In addition, they share and communicate a common message. “Traditional values exist for a reason. We cannot invent our own values, and we do so at our own peril.” Their message is identical to…

In 2018, the high profile suicide of designer Kate Spade brought focused attention on the disturbing rise of suicide in our culture. The number of suicides among female teens rose 70% between 2010 and 2016 hitting a 40-year high in 2015. As we continue to look for reasons and answers, one element rises…

A mystery couple has been paying the checks for other customers at a southwestern Pennsylvania restaurant. A local television station reported the couple had been covering checks for people for several years, but their good deeds were made public recently. One woman said she was celebrating her daughter’s…

Delta Airlines is testing a kiosk that scans the faces of passengers when they check their baggage. The machine allows passengers to bypass check-in agents because it matches the scanned picture with the image on their passports. The airline said the machines could allow them to move twice as many passengers…

Intelligent design (ID) is the teaching that the world is created and obviously designed by a superior intelligence. Casey Luskin, a program officer with the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture talks about the progress ID is making in our culture. “At least five states now require, or…

An Australian man said a lot of unwanted visitors have been coming to his house after Google maps accidentally labeled it as a pizzeria. Michael McElwee said he thought it was a simple mistake when the first person knocked on his door trying to deliver magazines for the pizza restaurant, but it wasn’t…

A 33-year-old British man, claiming it was the culmination of too many drinks in the pub, legally changed his name to Bacon Double Cheeseburger.” The risen Christ promised us a new name for those who overcome. It will be more meaningful than the name of our favorite food. –--Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

In response to the pop-culture perspective that gender is no longer binary, Paul Smith, associate professor of Old Testament studies at Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention says, "Pronouns in Hebrew are only masculine or feminine with no other options. Gender identity and gender roles…

A very generous person helped almost 200 shoppers at a Pennsylvania Walmart have a brighter Christmas when they paid off all of the store’s layaway items. Store Manager Ryan Kennedy said he got a phone call from a mysterious person who offered to pay off all $46,265.59 worth of layaway items. A few days…

When Leroy Black died of cancer his obituary appeared in the Press of Atlantic City twice. In the first one, he was described as a well-loved fiberglass technician. After some other niceties, the obituary said he “is survived by his loving wife, Bearetta Harrison Black.” The observant reader would have…

# Philippians Lesson 1 ## Intro to the Study of Philippians I’ve been given the privilege of teaching the opening weeks of this study through the book of Philippians. Before we get to the text of Philippians I am going to take a few minutes to refresh your memory of the background of the Philippian churches…

Michael B. Jordon shares a name with one of the most famous basketball players of all time. Living with a famous name is not easy. “I hated my name. I wanted to change it,” Jordan, who is an accomplished actor says. “But it gave me a healthy chip on my shoulder. One of my goals is when people hear ‘Michael…

# Philippians 1:3–8 ## Opening: Paul’s Thanksgiving As we move on this morning in our study of Paul’s letter to the Philippians, we find Paul following his normal pattern of thanksgiving and prayer. This week we will look at his statement of thanksgiving about the Philippians, and next week we will look…