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Political correctness can be traced back to the early 1980s, when it was used to describe a position or belief associated with nontraditional viewpoints in the United States. Through the 1980s, the term was infrequently used until the media grasped it and started to apply it to environmentalist and feminist viewpoints.
“For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
evil may not dwell with you.”—PS. 5:4.
GOD abhors all forms of wickedness.
Philippians 3:13 Updated American Standard Version (UASV)
13 Brothers, I do not count myself as having laid hold of it: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are ahead,
Life is animate being, and once it begins it inexorably leads to death. At least this is the case after the fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden. (Gen. 2:17; 3:1-6) This will not be the case after Jesus' Second Coming. Death is a cessation of life, an irreversible state that is characterized by the cessation of all those processes that sustain life.
Are Men Necessary? Significant interest in the psychology of men surged from about the mid-1970s, after the feminist movement. Early “masculist” authors included Goldberg (1976) and Farrell (1975), whose original suggestions fell in line with the psychology of the times, namely, that men should be more sensitive and less aggressive.
Why is the human male and female nature constant across time and cultures? Men think of intimacy in physical terms (S-E-X); women think of intimacy in emotional terms (T-A-L-K). So how are you supposed to know what your husband or ...
“Transgenderism is an increasing focus of pop culture, social media, politics, and the academic world.” (Focus on the Family) Identity combines the senses of who I am, what I do, and how I do it. Are sexual practices and gender really a matter of personal choice?
As a parent, you have the authority to make rules. But, what makes a good parent? How can you raise responsible children? Discipline is “teaching children character, self-control, and moral behavior.” Discipline is perhaps the greatest child-rearing challenge for parents because parents have a heavy investment in its outcome.
Depression has been called the common cold of mental illnesses. Current estimates from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) suggest that each year more than 11,000,000 people in the United States suffer from this illness.
In the Bible several different Hebrew and Greek words are used to denote anger. Anger is an intense emotional reaction, sometimes directly expressed in overt behavior and sometimes remaining a largely unexpressed feeling. The word normally used in the Bible to refer to an emotion considered sinful. All of us have gotten angry. Should we vent our anger or should we contain it? How can God's Word help?