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First off I noticed the back grounds and themes have been upgraded. This forum must have gotten a new dedicated server. Either that or a spot of brilliance from the techs involved with this forum. Congratulations to the owner of the dedicated server! Most importantly I do understand my concept of taking the Bible as a whole instead of taking a single scripture and isolating it often offends people. I feel like if I give up now then my faith would not be a pebble much less a pebble to the power of 2. I suppose you could say my studies in the binary number system has been moving along well. So why am I here asking for advice? . Well my fathers' IT noticed my big project in sound synthesis. Said he would like to see if I could learn the material in software. The problem is that I am scared to go back to college. I rather be an assistant then to be something that required a degree. I also have my calling in becoming a published writer and a recognized artist to think about. When I look at my life I know God has called me to write and create very deep and meaningful art. Specifically in anthropomorphic anatomy. This is often times called the Furry subculture. As you may have guessed artists in this subculture span very wide. The one story that really helps me stay focused is the biographies of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. They were the closest friends that you could ever imagine. Then one day they were anything but, friends. I lost a friend to the transgender LGBT debates. He told me that he could not be friends with some one who spreads hate and lies about the LGBT. He blocked me on FB as well as broke off any connection to the Church that we went to. I stuck with my Church even though I needed to distance myself for a little while. . I started going back for College and young career Church. We call it Remix even though our thing is contemporary Christianity instead of hymnal. In simple words our lessons are based off of a theme instead of going in Chronological order of the Bibles Books. The new topic was in sexual purity. I won't go into details sense this might not be the place to. However, its got me thinking about my career life. If I go back to college I will be facing a risk of Liberal ideology being forced on me. If I am promoting my art and writing I would not be surprised if I get attacked for being Christian. The college nearby creates equal opportunity and even has connections to my Church. This would be an ideal place to try again. I failed in the past because I was in algebra where the last topic we hit was the study of x,y graphs, and systems of equations. The very next class was Pre-Calculus where the first thing we were to learn was the parent equations. I was still getting the hang of factoring polynomials. I put up a good fight until we got to synthetic division. I could not have asked for a better teacher. However, time was very limited and we had to get into regular calculus by the next semester. The final straw was when I attempted tech school. Long story short the teacher knew nothing about algebra and when I tried to learn his arrhythmic the teacher refused to talk to me after class. Said that I needed to grow up and realize no one will teach me. Either I was to pick it up or decide to leave. I mentioned this story before, but thats the jist of it. So in general I am not sure if I have a clear understanding of what path I need to take next.

There is a great creation science magazine you can receive free of charge from the Institute for Creation Institute. Here is there website link for more information: Institute for Creation Research

Hi! Do I just have false impression or am I right? To me personally it looks like the percentage of people with at least bachelors degree in sciences is much lower among christians than in non-christians. By sciences I mean physics, chemistry, computers (and related), maths, engineering, etc. I have noticed from 100 christians (who are at student age) I know from my hometown churches there is roughly 3 - 4 people who have bachelors or higher in sciences. However it seems that when I would take randomly 100 students from university then the percentage of of sciences would be much higher. The Christans (not that much but still) seem to end their education with high school or when they go to university/college they would study something soft such as arts, languages, psychology, hairdressing, class teacher (for basic school/kindergarten), etc. I dont come from Christian family/background so I thought I would ask here if it only looks so or if it's really so. And if it is so then what could be behind it?

NATIONS LARGEST Atheist group files complaint againstChristian School for Disciplining LGBT Students The atheist organization Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has filed a complaint against a Christian school for the school’s LGBT policy. According to The Christian Post, St. John’s Lutheran School of Baraboo, Wisconsin, says it maintains the right as a private Christian school to “discipline and dismiss student” for their adherence to a homosexual lifestyle. The FFRF, also a Wisconsin-based organization, alleges that the school does not have the right to discriminate against LGBT students. The FFRF filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction earlier this month. “St. John’s Lutheran School has implemented policies that discriminate against students on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity,” stated Patrick Elliot of the FFRF. “As these students are unable to attend the school, they are unable to participate in free and reduced price lunch programs.” In comments emailed to The Christian Post, the school maintains that “the complaint is without merit.” They also said the school is “confident that the government will recognize, as it always has, the church’s constitutional right to teach and practice our beliefs without interference from the government.” “The federal funds we receive are designed to help children and families not fund and operate our school,” the St. John’s continued. “We will gladly cooperate with any investigation, and we want to continue to provide these government programs to our families.” The Christian Post notes that St. John’s Lutheran School is affiliated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), which maintains that marriage is between one man and one woman. The school says that, in disciplining or expelling LGBT students, it is not acting in a spirit of anger, but is instead adhering to biblical instruction that homosexuality is a sin. “We must warn the impenitent that homosexuality, like all sins, excludes people from eternal life (1 Corinthians 6:9-10),” says a statement from the WELS. “We are happy to assure the repentant who are struggling against this sin that they have complete forgiveness through the blood of Christ. When Christ died for all of the sins of the whole world, he gained forgiveness for homosexual deeds, for homosexual desires, and for the inborn sinful nature that produces these sins (1 Corinthians 6:11),” continued the statement

Hello all, I am wondering if people have any good resources (and advice) on learning how to really pray well? I am realizing that first off, I am sure I don't pray enough. And I think part of why I don't pray enough, is that I often don't know how to pray or what to say, really. And then because of this, my first instinct (especially when something happens or my anxiety kicks in) is not necessarily to go to God. But I want it to be - I want to feel like my prayer is changing me and developing a relationship with God, and of course increasing my faith. So, I am looking for any good input, books, sermons online, other resources, that will help me both in effect learn how to pray and also help me to make it a habit, if that makes sense? Thoughts?

Dr, Ben Carson (pediatric neurosurgeon, John Hopkins) gives a moving an insightful speech at the national prayer breakfast. He hit so many nails on the head, you'd thing he had a nailgun. http://youtu.be/PFb6NU1giRA

This will dovetail well with wingnuts article on homosexuality, because these are the two bastions that remain for upholding our rights. Like so many other things, on the surface this may look good. You may want to look deeper. http://www.corestandards.org/ I first heard about this on radio while driving, a few days ago. I missed the program the next morning, then today I happened to be driving again and heard Glen Beck speak about it. This is not going to be something I want for my grandchildren, nor for your children. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/27/indoctrination-and-data-mining-in-common-core-heres-why-americas-schools-may-be-in-more-trouble-than-you-think/ There are videos embedded in this article, but I did not see any of them, though I did click on one to see if it would come up - it did. Mods, if the Beck article needs to be moved, please do so.