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Women to battle pornography with prayer

HOUSTON (BP) -- In nearly 20 years of being a pastor's wife, Angie Dennis said she doesn't remember a single instance of a young woman coming to her and saying, "Miss Angie, my husband is struggling with pornography." Perhaps they have been ashamed, scared, embarrassed or too paralyzed to take action. Or maybe they simply didn't know what to do. Dennis, whose husband Jay Dennis launched the Join One Million Men movement at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 11-12 in Houston, is hopeful women will pray up, speak up and join the fight against pornography in a way that will capture hearts and minds for generations to come. "As moms and grandmothers, we should be angry -- righteously angry about this," Dennis told Baptist Press where Join One Million Men staffed a booth in the SBC exhibit hall. "These pornographers are trying to steal the purity from our sons and grandsons. Every woman should be doing whatever we can to stop it." In recent years, Dennis said she sensed a growing drive within her husband, pastor of the 9,000-member First Baptist Church at the Mall in Lakeland, Fla., to minister to families struggling with a "snowballing" effect of online pornography.…

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Egypt slams 'Bible-burning' Islamist preacher with 11-year sentence

An Egyptian misdemeanors court has issued an 11 year prison sentence to Islamist preacher Ahmed Abdullah (AKA Abu Islam) on charges of insulting religion and burning the Bible. Abu Islam, who is the head of two Islamic satellite TV channels – the Umma and Mariya – has also been fined LE3000, but the verdict will…

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Tim Tebow’s test of faith

After the New York Jets released Tim Tebow in April, the outspoken Christian quarterback immediately tweeted Proverbs 3:5-6, a passage that talks about trusting God even when you do not understand His plan. On Friday, just three days after signing with the New England Patriots, Tebow was on stage for the 2013 Gridiron Men’s Conference in…

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Government makes gender change effortless, on paper

The Social Security Administration announced Friday that it would no longer require proof of surgery to alter the gender identification of people in its computers and records. The move mirrors similar actions by the U.S. State Department, which amended its passport application policies three years ago to do away with the sex reassignment surgery requirement.…

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Euthanizing sick babies to spare parents’ suffering

Doctors in the Netherlands are now able to use a muscle relaxant that kills extremely ill children faster so that parents don’t have to suffer the pains of watching a child die slowly. The Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) told The Dutch Press Wednesday that distress felt by parents of a dying newborn is a justification for euthanasia.…

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It’s “Not Fair” That We Have to Use Obamacare

Never underestimate the ability of a politician to have hideous character. No matter how low the bar is, they often find ways to set new all-time lows. Take  Rep. John Larson (D., Conn.), for example. He explains that it’s “simply not fair” that Obamacare is hurting his staff because they’re poor — leading many to go…

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Lil Wayne steps on American flag [VIDEO]

Lil Wayne stepped all over the American flag during the filming of his “God Bless Amerika” music video. Someone uploaded cell phone footage to YouTube Sunday of Lil Wayne rapping in front of a large American flag. In the middle of the song, the flag is lowered to the ground. It is difficult to determine…

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Beware of ‘comfort care’

Infanticide is the new abortion. I’m not saying infanticide will be the new abortion, but that it is. Wherever abortionists kill late-term babies—across the fruited plain—inconvenient live births occur. And inconvenient live births are taken care of. If your patient is shelling out a thousand bucks to end the life of her baby, you are…

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Judge Orders Fourteen-Year-Old Child Ground Into Hamburger

OK, not literally, but I can’t read this story and not think of the dark and morose song and video by Pink Floyd, “We Don’t Need No Education.” In the video, children are being marched through a factory line until they fall into a meat grinder. Meanwhile the chorus goes: “We don’t need no education We don’t…

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Unmasking Islam: More Of What You Need To Know

Recently, Tim Brown wrote an article on how one high school in Colorado encouraged students to recite the pledge of allegiance referring not to “God,” but to “Allah.”  Tim noted, “Outrage is building over the fact that students were encouraged to recite the Pledge of Allegiance over the loudspeaker in Arabic replacing ‘one nation under God’ with…

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Happy Father’s Day: President Obama and his daughter play with toy guns

Wishing Americans a happy Father’s Day, the White House tweeted a picture of President Obama and one of his daughters playing with toy water pistols. The Tweet comes at a time when several schools around the country—fearful that such toys make kids more prone to violent behavior—have launched trade-in programs that encourage children to exchange their harmless…

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