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Easter is a holiday that I have celebrated throughout my life. This day is often associated with family meals, Easter egg hunts, baskets, and a variety of chocolates. It is also an important day of faith.

The teaching that babies are born in sin is fairly common in the religious world. There are creed books and catechisms which state in so many words that babies have inherited the guilt of Adam’s sin. Is this what the Bible says, though? What does the Bible say about this subject?

Magazines that give us unrealistic expectations are everywhere.  The Men’s Health magazines with the muscle head cover boys with the insinuation that “you too can look like this” or “get the girl of your dreams by looking like a (paraphrasing) muscle-head dipstick”.  Obviously they don’t use the

When I look back on the kind of mom I was when my kids were little, it’s a wonder they have enough where-with-all to walk across the street.  I was your basic crazy woman.  The reason I was your basic crazy woman was because I was always afraid someone was going to hurt my children.  Some of my f