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Pornography is a disease that is hurting both the Church and the society at large. It is not a new problem, but it becomes an even more difficult problem to deal with as time goes on. It is a problem that has become more prominent in society with the advent of the internet. One prominent pornography website has bragged about having over 100 million daily visitors. To put this in perspective, according to the numbers on this site, the site that I am referring to gets about as much traffic per day, on average, as Wikipedia, Amazon, Facebook, and YouTube PUT TOGETHER. More people watch pornography online each day on this one website than people who tune into Netflix. In fact, this one website has more views per day than the number of subscribers that Netflix has in the US. Multiply this by dozens upon dozens of pornography websites, and you have an even bigger problem. In case I haven't made this clear, the pornography pandemic is far larger than we seem to realize. I want us to ...

  Dear Christians, I read a sad statistic today. According to a poll conducted by Lifeway Research, prayer among protestant pastors is in terrible shape. This is not the only poll that has shown the lack of prayer among many in the clergy. However, it is very telling. In fact, this poll shows pastors spending more time in prayer than many other polls that were conducted. In other words, this appears to be the best case scenario. According to the poll, pastors spent approximately 5 hours each week in prayer. Yes. You read that right. Five hours each WEEK. This translates to less than 45 minutes each day, on average. Keep in mind that some of this time comes from the Sunday worship services. This is less than the amount of time these pastors spent each week watching television, to give a point of comparison.  It seems that it is easy for us to sing the old hymn "Sweet Hour of Prayer", but it is difficult for us to actually live this out in our lives. The Problem The lack of pr...