Dr Paul Allen

Image via Wikipedia What we have failed to understand is that Christians in the twenty-first century are being thrown into a world in which just a little bit of Bible knowledge is simply not going to be enough.  Simply having positive fellowship and nurturing experiences in the church and in the Christian family will not be enough. The church must prepare people to be able to think Christianly in a world where the intellectual rules have fundamentally changed. Related articles Lent Meditation '12; Interdependence Characterizes Christian Fellowship. (michielovesthesun.wordpress.com) TRUE CHURCH FELLOWSHIP by Dr Daniel H. Smith (ioan17.wordpress.com) Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church Part 4 (richwendling.wordpress.com) Liberals vs. Sola Scriptura (anotherchristianblog.org) Constatine's Edict of Milan: Blessing or Curse of Christianity? (factorysense.wordpress.com) Discussion notes (maddiehayes1224.wordpress.com) The Year Of The Bible (truelogic.wordpres

Image via Wikipedia On the nightstand of a woman in your church, there’s a Christian romance novel and a Bible . Does that matter? On the Kindle of a teenage Christian woman in your congregation’s youth group, there’s a “young adult” fiction bestseller. Should that concern you? A new book by Boston University researchers Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam,  A Billion Wicked Thoughts , offers a disturbing look at how Internet search engines reveal much about the sexual and emotional desires of men and women, and how they differ. The research confirms in some ways what almost everyone knows: men are visually engaged, attracted to youth and sexual novelty, and are thus vulnerable to visual pornography. The research explores further what the commercialized romance industry tells us about what it means to be a woman (at least in a fallen world). Women are much less likely to be drawn to visual pornography (although more do so than one might think), but are quite likely to be involved in such medi