by Cindy Bergenback | Jul 18, 2013
Sexual Revolution In 1989, Marshal Kirk and Hunter Madsen published a book entitled; After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the ‘90s. They laid out a plan for normalizing behavior that had previously been viewed as deviant. First,...
by Cindy Bergenback | Jul 17, 2013
Rise and Fall of Great Civilizations Yesterday I outlined the path to moral decline as revealed by the apostle Paul in Romans chapter one. When we move away from God, sin is inevitable. The apostle could have mentioned any number of sins, but he specifically zeroed in...
by Cindy Bergenback | Jul 16, 2013
Seeds of Destruction British anthropologist, J.D. Unwin, studied 80 societies, analyzing their cultural beliefs and practices, especially as related to sex and marriage. He published his conclusions in 1934 in his book Sex and Culture. Whether or not a society had...
by Cindy Bergenback | Jul 15, 2013
Politics and Sex The world has been experiencing an economic crisis the last four years and the U.S. national debt is spiraling out of control. Middle East and African countries are struggling with revolutions and political chaos that threaten global peace. The...
by Cindy Bergenback | Jul 12, 2013
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway In her book, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Susan Jeffers shares two fundamental truths about fear. First, “the fear will never go away as long as you continue to grow.” Every step in the sanctification process will be met with new...
by Cindy Bergenback | Jul 11, 2013
Work Your Plan The third step in overcoming irrational fears is to prayerfully work out a plan of responsible behavior. A college student shared with me that she was living in terror of her father. They hadn’t spoken to each other in six months. Obviously there was...
by Cindy Bergenback | Jul 10, 2013
Analyze Your Lifestyle The second step in overcoming irrational fears is to analyze your lifestyle and determine where God’s place in your life has been usurped. There are three questions you should ask. First, in what way has fear prevented you from living a...
by Cindy Bergenback | Jul 9, 2013
Analyze Your Fear “God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power, and love, and discipline” (2 Timothy 1:7). Obviously God is not the source of irrational fears, so then what, or who is? The first step to overcoming our fears is to analyze them. Who or what...
by Cindy Bergenback | Jul 8, 2013
Take the Risk Success is 90 percent attitude and 10 percent aptitude, and it is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. As a young lad, I was inspired by President Theodore Roosevelt’s biography. He was a “can do” man against big odds. He wrote the...
by Cindy Bergenback | Jul 5, 2013
Defining Failure The Bible begins with the failure of Adam and Eve to live up to their potential, but it doesn’t stop there. Moses struck the rock in anger and failed to reach the Promised Land. Elijah slew 450 prophets of Baal, but ran from Jezebel. David slew...
