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Just returned from a great week of camping with Kyle and our Boy Scout troop for a week in the 100+ degree heat. Lots of good memories with my boy! Here are some pics.

I’ve just finished listening to the broadcasts that will be broadcast next week (June 15-19) recounting the events one year ago when little Molly Mutz was born and died in just one week. These broadcasts literally take you inside the hospital room, including audio from personal video recordings, and help you process with the Mutz and Rainey families this seemingly senseless tragedy. Find a station or listen online at http://www.familylifetoday.com next week. You’ll be inspired and have your faith strengthened!

From FamilyLife Culture Watch

Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World by C. J. Mahaney

rating: 4 of 5 stars
Very balanced book dealing with our hearts and our love for the things of the world, especially around media, music, stuff and clothes. The final chapter is on the proper way to love the world. This is not a list of rules but rather a biblical viewpoint on how to evaluate your own choices. We read this as a morning devotion with our kids aged 8-18. Very Helpful!

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If you’ve been following the heartbreaking journey of Jake and Rebecca Mutz (Dennis and Barbara Rainey’s daughter and son-in-law), you may know that they recently lost their second child. Rebecca has been keeping a blog called What’s Cooking? through the process and it has much to teach us about faith in the midst of suffering and how best to minister those who are going through suffering. Articles like this one can be so helpful in learning how to help when you don’t know what to say.

How to Pray by R.A. Torrey

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
Listened to this on the way home from OKC yesterday. Good overview of Scriptural teaching on prayer. Interesting to hear the cultural issues in 1900 that Torrey was concerned about. Torrey was D. A. Moody’s successor.

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Couldn’t have said it better myself

I am convinced that we have rounded a corner as a society and it is leading us down a very dark alley.

Consider the two stories I’ve run across in just the past 16 hours:

First, I see this story on ABC World News Tonight about how 40% of new births are to unwed mothers, not because of an increase in teen pregnancy which has actually dropped slightly, but because of adult women in their 20’s who are simply cohabitating and feel no responsibility to marry. In fact, a staggering 60% of births to women 20-24 were to unwed mothers!

Then, Dennis Rainey sends me this link about how an educator in Australia is suggesting that we have 5-year renewable marriage contracts rather than lifetime covenants. Unbelievable!

We have been speaking for a number of years about being in a “post-Christian” culture. I believe we are rapidly heading into a “post-marriage” culture. Marriage is no longer viewed as the bedrock of the family and has become completely optional to most.

Let me share with you this quote from Dennis Rainey:

A Harvard sociologist and professor by the name of Carle Zimmerman studied civilizations and determined that no nation can outlive the strength of its families. He said “Nations and empires rise and fall on the strength of their families.”

He identified three phases that the family went through as civilizations rose to power and then fell apart. What the family went through during the last stages of the fall was described by the following: marriage lost its sacredness, alternative forms of marriage were advocated, feminist movements flourished, parenting became more difficult, adultery was celebrated, women lost their inclination for childbearing, and sexual perversions abounded, including bestiality, but especially homosexuality and infidelity.

Zimmerman said this marked the final stage of societal disintegration.

If his book had been written last year, you would accuse him of just reading newspapers and being a fear monger. But his book was written in 1947.

This is a critical battle that we are fighting! If you are not engaged, find a way to join the battle or partner with us and our work at FamilyLife.

For those of you who remember the story of Molly last year, read this latest post from Barbara Rainey about their daughter’s most recent challenge. If you haven’t read it, you need to.