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Where is the Hope? :: By Jonathan Brentner Published on:  March 29, 2019  by  RRadmin7   Category: General Articles According to the Center for Disease Control, the life expectancy in the United States has declined for the third year in a row. The last time this happened was a century ago, 1915-1918, when our country entered World War I and 675,000 Americans died because of the Spanish Flu. This time it’s not war or a flu pandemic contributing to the decline in life expectancy; it’s hopelessness. The key contributors to the current decline are drug overdoses (at least 90,000 in 2018), suicides (45,000 in 2017), and alcohol abuse. Researchers Anne Case and Angus Deaton have dubbed these as “deaths of despair.” While this hopelessness is “largely economic,” other factors contribute to it as well. Ann Case said this: “Your family life has fallen apart, you don’t know your kids anymore, all the things you expected when you started out your life just haven’t h...

Excerpt taken from article here: Read entirely: " http://andrewscottlinder.com/dads-you-matter/ Let’s face it – sitcom dads are a joke… if you listen to what the world portrays dads as being, you’ve got a bunch of weak, jelly-spined guys who don’t know how to do much other than what their told by their wives and pushed around by their children to do.  In many cases, dads aren’t even in the picture at all. But that’s not the picture portrayed for us in the Scriptures of what a father is meant to be.  God’s desire for you as a father is that you be  purposeful ,  present , and  passionate  about raising your family and leaving a lasting legacy that far outlives you and your life.   Proverbs 13:22 reminds us that “ A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children.”

by David Wilkerson Chapter 3—Power Over Sin I  thought that the way to get power over sin would be to study the origin of sin. In other words, where did sin come from and how did I get infected with it? But what a long, involved study that is. It's a rather complicated story of a star war that took place before I was born, when the chief angel, Lucifer, led an army of one-third of God's angels in an insurrection. The origin of sin also has to do with man's being born with a free will, including an alternative to commit evil. It has to do with Satan bringing that alternative to the attention of Eve, the first lady of creation. It has to do with both Adam and Eve having their eyes opened to the inner struggle they had introduced into their bodies and minds. How sin was communicated from Adam to the rest of the human race is another one of those theological problems still being argued. I decided against trying to locate the origin of Adam's sin. I am...