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Podcast: Love Life New York

Randolph Jason

Podcast: Love Life New York by John Stonestreet for BreakPoint Nearly a million abortions will take place in America this year. Since 1973, when Roe v. Wade effectively legalized abortion nationwide, we have seen more than 50-million abortions in this country. Given such daunting and tragic statistics, is it possible even to dream about ending abortion in this country? Justin Reeder, who leads Love Life in Charlotte, N.C., says yes. We had Justin on the podcast a couple of years ago, when he was expanding his local Charlotte ministry to…

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Why Cities Are Becoming ‘Theme Parks Of Childless Affluence’

Randolph Jason

Why Cities Are Becoming ‘Theme Parks Of Childless Affluence’ By Libby Emmons for The Federalist With many of America’s densest urban areas losing families with kids, we must ask how we got here and why, even in booming economic times, people are simply finding it too difficult to raise families in cities. This week, the Manhattan Institute hosted a symposium on the Future of Families in the Childless City at the Princeton Club in the kidless New York City. New York isn’t the only childless city in the Northeast. In fact,…

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Good News for Whole-Person Flourishing

Randolph Jason

Good News for Whole-Person Flourishing by Hunter Beaumont  for The Gospel Coalition Over the last 75 years, American evangelicals have become increasingly active in poverty alleviation. This is one of the great achievements of Carl Henry and Billy Graham’s “neo-evangelical” vision, forcefully introduced by Henry’s 1947 watershed book The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. Fundamentalists, Henry said, were like theologically precise priests passing by a dying traveler. They complained about the theological bankruptcy of the “social gospel” but didn’t have their own program for addressing social evils. Henry identified fundamentalism’s own…

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Former Homosexuals to March for True Freedom in Orlando in September

Randolph Jason

Former Homosexuals to March for True Freedom in Orlando in September by JEFFREY MCCALL for Charisma News On Sept. 14, the Freedom March will be holding its fifth event at Walt Disney Amphitheater Lake Eola in Orlando, Florida. The Freedom March is an event where former LGBTQ individuals share their testimonies of overcoming these lifestyles through Jesus Christ. Jeffrey McCall is the founder of the event. “While speaking at event in D.C., I thought, Why don’t we have an event where people who formerly lived LGBTQ lifestyles could share their stories…

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MEASURED SPEECH

Randolph Jason

MEASURED SPEECH by Dave Jenkins for Servants of Grace Ecclesiastes 5:1-7, “Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. 3 For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many…

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How to Date Someone with Different Political or Religious Views

Randolph Jason

How to Date Someone with Different Political or Religious Views from Making Sense of Manliness Politics and religion are two of the most divisive and emotive topics in our communities today. Every politics and religion enthusiast is trying to outdo their opposition, desperate to appear superior to the other. And while that is legal and acceptable in the society, what happens when love is caught in the wrangles? Better put; how difficult or easy is it date someone who holds religious or political views that sharply contradicts yours? Well, please…

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Listen Up! Practical Help for Lousy Listeners

Randolph Jason

Listen Up! Practical Help for Lousy Listeners by Deepak Reju  for The Gospel Coalition Are you a bad listener? What would your spouse or best friend or children say about you? People tend to think much more highly of themselves than they actually deserve. So what would you say: Are you a good or bad listener? There are several practices and traits that can derail good listening. Impatience leads to shoddy listening. An impatient listener is not able to appreciate or be fully engaged in her present circumstances. She is not willing…

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Dear American ‘Liberals’: Everything You Think You Know About Russia Is Wrong

Randolph Jason

Dear American ‘Liberals’: Everything You Think You Know About Russia Is Wrong by Lisa Marie White  for Russia-Insider Russia is actually ahead of the United States on many issues championed by the American Left We all know what it feels like to log onto the Newsweek-owned Daily Beast, or the puerile random listicle generator known as  Buzzfeed, and peruse the invective-laden anti-Russian, anti-Putin screeds contained therein. These hysterical publications serve a function; that function is to convince members of the American public who might balk at militarism that today’s Russia is a dangerous, dirty, backward, evil place, and…

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