12 Most Controversial Posts From 2024
Selecting the most controversial posts from 2024 was simple, as many posts on this blog can make one feel uncomfortable.
Feeling a bit uncomfortable is, ultimately, what this blog is all about⎯sensing personal inadequacy, having a desire to do better, and taking daily actions to improve one’s life and draw closer to God.
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Controversial Posts
Following are twelve of the most controversial posts from 2024. I pray they will bless your life and, when needed, inspire you to action.
Mothers In Training: Baby Dolls and Barbies
One memorable Christmas as a young girl, I received the one thing I’d wished for—a Baby That-A-Way doll. Thanks to a battery pack, my baby doll would slowly crawl on her hands and knees down our carpeted hallway. I patiently followed behind to protect her from any potential threats.
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Christianity Versus Transcendentalism: Henry David Thoreau
Why is it that we spend so much time learning about Thoreau, Emerson, Hemingway, and countless other authors, poets, philosophers, scientists, etc. who have no foundation in God? Why do we not learn more about C.S. Lewis, Solzhenitsyn, Chesterton, Susanna Wesley, and George MacDonald?
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How To Replace Screen Time With Family Time
An increasing number of families feel a deep desire to increase goodness and beauty in their lives by limiting, or altogether removing, screens from their homes. The good news is that it’s not only possible, but it’s proven to be life changing in the most remarkable ways.
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Classic Tales of True Love: Women, Snow White, & Falling in Love
If you grew up watching Disney movies, it might be natural for you to believe in classic tales of true love. In a world with rapidly changing views of love and relationships, it’s time we ask ourselves a few questions:
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A Mother’s Most Important Work: There is No Place Like Home
Growing up in a small town, I was your average American kid. I had everything a young girl could ever want: interesting hobbies, a fun group of friends, and an education (which I didn’t appreciate at the time, but sure do now!) Oh, and I had my family.
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20 Inspiring Pro-Life Quotes and Resources
God is pro-life. As His children, we “declare the means by which mortal life is created to be divinely appointed. We affirm the sanctity of life and of its importance in God’s eternal plan.
“Children are an heritage of the Lord”.
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Love and Intimacy Guide: Choosing Sound Principles
Love and intimacy matter. Why? Because improving one’s relationships is central to one’s ability to draw close to God. The world in which we live confuses love and lust, selfishness and intimacy. We are so surrounded by lust and selfishness, we hardly recognize them anymore.
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Woodlawn
Inspiring movie base on a true story of a school filled with racism and hatred in 1973. A story of love and unity.
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The Intimacy of a Kiss: Emotional Connection
“What are you supposed to think about while you kiss someone?”
This is one of many questions I’ve received since sharing my thoughts on intimacy. Here is my best attempt at answering that question:
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Principle-Based Love: We’ve Got It All Wrong
When marriage becomes hard, when physical intimacy becomes challenging, when church feels uncomfortable, and when life still feels lonely, we are left feeling empty, frustrated, and confused. Why? Because we’ve got it all wrong.
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The ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of Creating New Halloween Traditions
So often in our culture it is easy to follow the crowd without even realizing what we’re doing, or why we’re doing it. The more I thought about the ‘what’ and the ‘why’, the more I realized that I no longer wanted to follow the crowd. I desired to create new Halloween traditions.
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The Abrahamic Covenant: What It Is And How It Blesses Us
I’ve always known that the covenant has something to do with Abraham inheriting a promised land and having endless posterity, and I’m really happy for him, I truly am, but I often have a hard time seeing how covenant applies to me, and what all the excitement is about.
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Quotes about Controversy
“Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.”
Walter Martin
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.”
“Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.”
Tupac Shakur
“There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.”
Andrew Young
“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”
Buddha
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“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”
C.S. Lewis
“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.”
Benjamin Rush
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.”
Thomas J. Watson
“It’s better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.”
Shimon Peres
