"We're trying to connect with our community," said Spencer, who said the church's core values remain much the same. "We want to remove as many obstacles as we can."
Spencer's sermons now feature PowerPoint presentations and clips from popular movies. A "worship team" that includes drummers and guitarists replaced the choir and organ music. Though 81 percent of the 400 members approved the name change, for one family, the change was "the straw that broke the camel's back."
Actually looking at the research, teenage pregnacy is DOWN again.
The problem is now people in their 20s who shack up with eachother and have kids, but don't want the commitment of marriage. The social stigma of being an unwed mother is nearly nonexistant now.
I don't think the issue of whether Jefferson was a Christian or not will be known by humanity until the Final Judgement.
Many of his writings were clearly Christian in Nature. He attended Church in the Capitol Building -- that's right there used to be Sunday worship services in the same rooms that congress worked in during the week! He also supported the use of Federal Tax dollars to send missionaries to the Indians -- so much for Jefferson's separation of Church and State.
His "Bible" with the miraculous taken out - was definately not Christian. I believe it has been said his hope was to use it to teach western morals to the Indians that would not convert to Christianity - if so good intention - but we all know about good intentions, the liberal church is full of them.
Of course the Childrens book leaves out the fact that one of the "gay" penguins left his "partner" when he found a female that he was happy with.
Of course the Homosexual Activists don't want you to know about that part of the story - if animals in nature can be return to normal relations - then gasp maybe they could too
There already is a drug Marinol, which contains the main active chemical in marijuana. It's probably just not as much fun to take in a pill.
Smoking marijuana is horrible on the lungs, some of the "medical" users actual use a different somewhat healthier method where they vaporize the chemicals by heating the marijuana and inhaling the fumes. It's better but inhaling hot fumes isn't exactly great for the lungs either.
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