Building on the Foundation

  If you’ve spent time around children, you’ve probably noticed how creative and imaginative they can be. This is often wonderful, but sometimes it isn’t. Tell your child to do something he or she doesn’t want to do, and that child can invent the silliest excuses you’ve ever heard to try to convince you that your instructions are impossible to obey. The child might even pretend he didn’t hear you, or that he didn’t understand what you said. When it comes to our Creator, it’s in our nature to morph into those same small children. When God, in His written Word, tells us to do something, it’s our human nature to invent the most outlandish excuses to try to weasel our way out of obedience. “Why, that’s so unreasonable! Why, that’s just impossible! Surely God didn’t actually mean that!” It’s in our nature to pretend we can’t understand our Creator’s plainest and simplest instructions. This carnal nature, of course, is exactly what God put us here to overcome. Now, being adults, we ten...

  The Evidence in Divorce When we ignore God's rules and design, the consequences are always bad, and this is no less true for divorce than for anything else. Proverbs 14:12 NASB95 - There is a way [which seems] right to a man, But its end is the way of death. Ignoring His design for marriage, gender, and the family leads to broken homes, and the main agent of that destruction is divorce. The data that's about to be presented demonstrates the fruits of this destructive agent without question. Recent research revealed something startling that was worth its own post, even if it is just a shorty. The section on divorce in the original post was quite short, mostly because I didn't have a lot of information to insert there. However, that has since changed, and quite dramatically. We'll mainly be examining the correlation between the rise of feminism and the rise in divorce rates, and the results are shocking, to say the least.  All stats, unless noted otherwise, in the foll...