A Lie of Psychology

Psychologists are in error to state as fact that humans use less than a given percentage of their total mental capacity. It is misleading for psychologists to claim that they scientifically examine minds, emotions, beliefs, values, and behaviors. A major writer [Judi Striano] of integrationist materials admits that “it is difficult to use scientific standards to study emotions like love and hope, the behavior of street gangs, the religious experiences of churchgoers or the effectiveness of psychotherapy.” Still, he believes that psychology is scientific.

Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, pg.51

One Piece at a Time.

 

Government Health Care?

 

Psychology Makes Nothing Better

Psychological studies have not shown that mankind is mentally healthier since the introduction of psychological theories and therapies. To the contrary, there is evidence that society has become more psychotic rather than better-adjusted. The increase of “mental illness” may someday be found to be in direct proportion to the number of psychologists and psychiatrists who set up practice.

Ed Bulkley, Ph.D., Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, pg.28

Beware the Lack of Reason

To Become a Christian Means to Change

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions—if he continues to be just as snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before—then I think we must suspect that his “conversion” was largely imaginary; and after one’s original conversion, every time one thinks one has made an advance, the is the test to apply. Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in “religion” mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better; just as in illness “feeling better” is not much good if the thermometer shows that your temperature is still going up.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pg. 207

Building Compound Interest of Good and Evil

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparent trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pg. 132

The Monstrosity of Fornication

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pg. 104

Study History

He who forgets his own history is condemned to repeat it. If we don’t know our own history, we will simply have to endure all the same mistakes, sacrifices, and absurdities all over again.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, “Why Study Church History?” Christian History, 25 (1990), pg.41

Questions for Husbands and Wives

Husband—What would happen in your marriage if you devoted yourself to loving, honoring, and serving your wife in all things? What if you determined that the preservation of your oneness with this woman was worth every sacrifice and expression of love you could make? What would change in your home if you took that approach to your relationship on a daily basis?

Wife—What would happen if you made it your mission to do everything possible to promote togetherness of heart with your husband? What if every threat to your unity was treated as a poison, a cancer, an enemy to be eliminated by love, humility, and selflessness? What would your marriage become if you were never again willing to see your oneness torn apart?

Stephen & Alex Kendrick, The Love Dare, pg.148

Lust vs Love

Lust is in opposition to love It means to set your heart and passions on something forbidden. And for a believer it’s the first step out of fellowship with the Lord and with others. That’s because every object of your lust—whether it’s a young coworker or a film actress, or coveting after a half-million dollar house or a sports car—represents the beginning of a lie. This person or thing that seems to promise sheer satisfaction is more like a bottomless pit of unmet longings. 

Lust always breeds more lust. “What is the source of the wars and the fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?” (James 4:1). Lust will make you dissatisfied with your husband or wife. It breeds anger, numbs hearts, and destroys marriages. Rather than fullness, it leads to emptiness.

Stephen & Alex Kendrick, The Love Dare, pg.117

"African-American"?

Let's stop with the stupid, condescending, divisive, insulting term "African American." I am an AMERICAN who is Black. Congress banned importation of new slaves in 1808, 212 years ago. Why do I have a descriptive for the continental origin of my ancestors but whites who came to America later do not?

Larry Elder, Random Thoughts On and Around Election Night

DANGER!!

Circular Reasoning is Endemic to Evolutionism

When an evolutionist looks at human DNA nucleotides, how does he know which ones are the results of mutations and which ones have remained unchanged? Obviously, to answer that question he must know what the original or ancient sequences were. Since only God is omniscient, how does the evolutionist get the information about those sequences that he believes existed millions of years ago? He uses as his guide the DNA of the chimpanzee. In other words, the studies that seek to prove that human DNA evolved from chimp DNA start with the assumption that chimp DNA represents the original condition (or close to it) from which human DNA diverged. That is circularity with a vengeance.

Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils, Pg.174