Thursday, February 7, 2013

National College Ministry Warns 'Bang With Friends' via Facebook Evilest App Ever

By Alex Murashko , Christian Post Reporter
February 7, 2013|9:37 am

A national school campus ministry group is warning college students and other young people about a new social media app that facilitates sexual encounters between Facebook friends who are anonymously interested in having sex. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA is calling "Bang With Friends" the evilest app ever.

"InterVarsity cares about college students and about living out biblical truth – this app is not healthy for students or consistent with Christian ethics," Adam Jeske, the organization's associate director of communications, told The Christian Post via email. "Don't go anywhere near this app! And that's not just for college students, but advice I give to myself and to my friends – what real good can come from something that explicitly exists to help us secretly connect and have sex?"

God’s Word: Who’s on fire about it - and who’s not?

he results are in. After surveying and analyzing the 96 most populous cities in America, The Barna Group unleashed which ones are the most Bible-minded and the ones that have the least regard for things biblical.
The trend? As might be expected, cities in the South typically tended to be hotter for the Bible, while the New England region tended to be the coldest.
Commissioned by the American Bible Society, the Barna study's results reflect societal Bible trends, such as residents' weekly Bible reading, their view of the accuracy of the Bible and the way they engage, accept and esteem Scripture.

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True Love Waits returns to where it began 20 years ago

Posted on Feb 7, 2013 | by Sharayah Colter

NASHVILLE (BP) -- True Love Waits morphed from a nameless concept in coffee break conversations into a movement that, beginning in February 1993, steadily spread to teenagers across the country.

That month, 53 youth at Tulip Grove Baptist Church committed themselves to sexual abstinence before marriage.

In the 20 years since, millions of teenagers have followed suit, bringing abstinence to the national conversation and strengthening innumerable marriages before they ever began.

The grassroots movement calling teenagers to make commitments of purity celebrated its local-church anniversary with a True Love Waits-themed Disciple Now weekend Feb. 1-3 at the Nashville-area church where the first group of Tulip Grove students made a True Love Waits pledge.

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Matt Moore, the World Does Not Define Us

by Dan Navin
An Offensive Faith
Matt Moore is a Christian blogger who openly acknowledges his struggle with same sex attraction. He has written extensively of a past spent pursuing sex with other men, drinking, and drugs. He became convinced of the sinfulness of his lifestyle in 2010 and became a follower of Christ. Matt has blogged extensively about Christianity and the sinfulness of practicing homosexuality. You can learn more of Matt by visiting his blog at http://moorematt.com/. He also appears on The Christian Post.
On February 5th, news articles began appearing which told of Matt’s picture and profile on an app called Grindr. According to its website, this app allows users to locate nearby “gay, bi, and curious guys for dating or friends”. One of the prominent uses of Grindr is to facilitate “hook ups” by listing users in order of their proximity to each other.

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