http://gocm.org/index.php/site/index/ en dnelson500@comcast.net Copyright 2009 2009-11-19T13:57:26+00:00 http://gocm.org/articles/pages/sex-ed_advocates_ignore_the_relationship_between_birth_control_abortion_and/ http://gocm.org/site/sex-ed_advocates_ignore_the_relationship_between_birth_control_abortion_and/#When:13:57:26Z Journalists and CDC officials waste no time in blaming disturbingly high rates of STD infections on “abstinence only” education, without offering any evidence of such a correlation. Not surprisingly, they neglect to mention two factors which have been statistically proven to raise rates of STD infection: legalized abortion and hormonal birth control methods. 2009-11-19T13:57:26+00:00 http://gocm.org/articles/pages/brain_food/ http://gocm.org/site/brain_food/#When:01:47:34Z I am often asked to recommend books that offer deeper investigations of the topics we cover in LTS, so I thought I would finally get around to doing so. Of course I realize most of you are back in school, and your time for extra-curricular reading may be limited. I hope, however, that all of you will be able enjoy at least a few of these titles in the near future...CS Lewis remarked that he didn’t think God was any more pleased with intellectual laziness than any other kind of laziness, and Proverbs 25:2 reminds us that it is the glory of king to search out a matter. God gave us our minds to glorify Him. He wants us to use them, challenge them, stretch them and strengthen them even as we cooperate with His work of renewing them. 2009-10-15T01:47:34+00:00 http://gocm.org/articles/pages/college_aids/ http://gocm.org/site/college_aids/#When:00:44:00Z Recently, both the New York Times and USA Today reported on the first outbreak of AIDS among American college students. These students were disproportionately black and from the Southeastern United States. The information was revealed at an AIDS conference in San Francisco held in February 2004. The facts in themselves are disturbing: not only do black men (who have sex with men) make up 88% of these new college student AIDS cases, but a third of these men also have sex with women. Relationships 2007-06-30T00:44:00+00:00 http://gocm.org/articles/pages/a_few_observations_about_the_04_election/ http://gocm.org/site/a_few_observations_about_the_04_election/#When:00:40:00Z At the risk of adding more words to an already verbose dialogue, I would like to make a few observations about the 2004 election, and what it means for the body of Christ. In the interest of honesty and transparency, I should tell you that I voted for President Bush, and consider myself a conservative. I should also tell you that I spent at least the first 25 years of my life as a Democrat. I recognize that there are sincere Christians who voted differently for reasons that they feel are equally important. Editiorals 2007-06-30T00:40:00+00:00 http://gocm.org/articles/pages/easy_answers_to_poverty/ http://gocm.org/site/easy_answers_to_poverty/#When:00:25:00Z The word "poverty" is one of the more loaded terms in our national vocabulary. It is also perhaps one the most over-simplified "issues" being bantered about in the public square. The media, for the most part, has explained it to us this way: compassionate people who care about the poor favor government programs to help them. Cold-hearted people who want to see homeless children starve to death do not. World View 2007-06-24T00:25:00+00:00 http://gocm.org/articles/pages/self_esteem_or_holiness/ http://gocm.org/site/self_esteem_or_holiness/#When:05:05:00Z We can never forget that genuine "positive self-esteem" and "self-acceptance" comes from a clean conscience before God, obtained by the accepting Jesus' work on the cross. Any cheap substitute that involves some variation on the "everybody does it" line will only assuage guilt, not obliterate it. Many a condemned Christian declares through clenched teeth that God knows his heart. Yes, He does, but do you know your heart? Relationships 2007-06-23T05:05:00+00:00 http://gocm.org/articles/pages/male_female_relationships_qa/ http://gocm.org/site/male_female_relationships_qa/#When:00:55:00Z At the 2004 GOCM National Conference in Atlanta, GA, the students that attended were asked to write down their questions regarding male-female relationships. The questions ranged from sex before marriage to dating in a biblical way. Read the top five questions asked regarding male-female relationships and how our panel answered them! Relationships 2007-06-23T00:55:00+00:00 http://gocm.org/articles/pages/box_office_failures_highlight_cultural_shift/ http://gocm.org/site/box_office_failures_highlight_cultural_shift/#When:00:47:00Z The summer of 2004 has already seen Shrek 2 clear the coveted $400 million dollar mark, with Spiderman 2 close on its heels. Yet most big budget films haven’t done so well. Two recent box office busts in particular, Mona Lisa Smile and The Stepford Wives draw attention to a cultural @#!$ that is taking place in our nation. Both movies had a lot of star power and large promotional budgets in their favor, yet according to boxofficemojo.com, Mona Lisa Smile grossed just under $64 million domestically, failing to make back it’s $90 million production and marketing costs. Editiorals 2004-02-28T00:47:00+00:00