Discalced Baptist

I don’t think people are understanding the issues surrounding those who are boycotting Target.  Where there are those who are doing so because they do not want to support the GLBT, there are many who are simply afraid and desiring to protect women from sexual predators.  Lets look at the numbers: 700,000 people in the USA identify as transgender 805,781 registered sex offenders in the US 268,000 rapes take place (and there is an estimated 68% of rapes that go unreported, so this figure could be substantially higher) Statistics say 1 in 6 women will be raped. Only ~2% of rapists are actually incarcerated, leaving the vast majority of rapists able to strike again. The male population is approximately 161.7 million (50% of the approximate US population) Some studies would suggest that 65% of transgender people are male, making the approximate figure 455K men are transgender. Putting these numbers together, we can easily see that there are almost twice as many regi...

How often do we see our pursuit of happiness, something which we have been so graciously endowed in this nation, ought to be in fact a pursuit of holiness?  Maybe that ought to be something we consider as cases of depression continually rise, as well as what would appear to me to be a general state of dissatisfaction in life.  How many make the correlation that the rise of unhappiness, dissatisfaction, listlessness, and apathy in life take place as ungodliness rises and becomes, not merely public norm, but publicly accepted and approved? "Never cease to show your people that to be holy is to be happy.  And that to bring us to perfect holiness and likeness to God was the very end for which Christ died." -Andrew Bonar "Oh that the all world but knew that happiness and holiness are one." -Andrew Bonar "For if sin is misery, sinners can only be made happy indeed by being made holy.  The process of redemption then is one whose design throughout is hol...