Here is a very interesting article on divorce rates dropping in the U.S. It states that:
America’s divorce rate began climbing in the late 1960s and skyrocketed during the ’70s and early ’80s, as virtually every state adopted no-fault divorce laws. The rate peaked at 5.3 divorces per 1,000 people in 1981. But since then it’s dropped by (more…)
Ok… so I didn’t know where else to post this, but I was just wondering…
Has anybody else noticed that the track for Mary J. Blige’s song “Take Me As I Am” is taken from Jay-Z’s song “Dead Presidents” off his 1996 album? (more…)
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This is an incredible video put together by World Vision fully satirizing the “sad” life that some of us live here in the West. Such a video should motivate us to stop our whining and realize just how much we are blessed to be living in the West. I hesitate to say it, but having lived in Kenya for a year, even the homeless that live on the streets of North America are amazingly blessed to be here compared to the homeless of the hundreds of poor countries of the world.
This [Red] campaign isn’t enough. What more can you do to help the situation?
Here’s a good list of things that you can do a self-check with as to whether you and others are growing spiritually.
1. Willingness to Serve in the local body.
2. Willing to be a Servant leader. (more…)
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Has anybody else noticed that the there is a new trend being formulated by Christians, particularly Christian artists? In the late 90s, early 00s, we had the big ‘worship music’ surge where suddenly all of the Christian artists made ‘worship’ albums, somehow different from their regular genre of music. Then that morphed (more…)
Today is my birthday. How shall I celebrate? Well, I got to sleep in. I can’t wait to see what the rest of the day holds!
