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Chester Bennington, lead singer of the band Linkin Park, who sold over 70 million albums, died of suicide at the age of 41. Chris Cornell, lead singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He hung himself at the age of 52. Story after story of rock stars who killed themselves or say they struggle daily with depression show that fame and fortune, attention and admiration, do not lead to happiness. The wise King Solomon wrote, "I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted" (Ecclesiastes 1:14-15). "He who loves money will not be satisfied, nor he who loves wealth; this is also vanity. When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?" (Ecclesiastes 5:10-11) "There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, ...

According to a story in The New York Times , "Prayer by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found." The study was conducted for nearly a decade, involving more than 1,800 patients. Whether or not the patients were prayed for, or even if they knew they were being prayed for, it did not speed up their recovery. It's one of the most popular studies skeptics have used to say, "See? Prayer doesn't work!" But those skeptics, and those who conducted this study, don't understand how prayer works. There are qualifications for prayer. Psalm 66:18, "If I'd cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened to my prayer." James 4:3, you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly. John 14:6 says that Jesus is the only way to the Father, and 1 Timothy 2:5 says he's the only mediator between God and man. So prayers to Mary or a false versio...

Matthew Vines is the founder of The Reformation Project, which has nothing to do with the protestant reformation. It's an attempt to "reform church teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity." Vines authored a book entitled God and the Gay Christian in which he attempts to argue that God is actually for homosexuality. In his reinvention of the text, he says that Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed because of same-sex fornication. The men of Sodom wanted to have sex with the two angels who came to rescue Lot from the wrath of God upon the city. But this was a threatened gang-rape. "God sends two angels disguised as men into the City of Sodom where the men of Sodom threatened to rape them. The angels blind the men, and God destroys the city. For centuries, this story was interpreted as God's judgment on same-sex relations, but the only form of same-sex behavior described is a threatened gang rape." Matthew Vines, from the video God and ...

If you watch porn, and know you need to stop looking at nude people and masturbating to them, there's a simple solution for ending this lurid obsession with the flesh. You won't have to take notes or remember some cutesy acronym. Here it is: Stop looking at porn. It's that simple, and you know it. You know what you're doing is evil. God hates it. Have you not read that He will judge all the sexually immoral and throw them in the lake of fire? (Revelation 21:8) Is porn and masturbating really so important that you would risk going to hell for it? God forbid you've become so enslaved by your lust you don't even think it's wrong anymore. "It's harmless," you say. "It's not actually sex. The Bible doesn't say anything about masturbating. It's not actually adultery." (See Matthew 5:27-28.) If that's your attitude, perhaps God's already turned you over to a debased mind to be destroyed by your passions. You...

The Bible says those who practice sexual immorality will not inherit the kingdom of God, but will be cast into eternal fire. "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." Galatians 5:19-21 " But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the ...

In Acts 17, the Apostle Paul stood at the Areopagus (also known as Mars Hill), a place where many idols had been erected to many false gods. Among those idols was an altar "To the unknown god." The Greeks wanted to make sure they had their bases covered, lest their be a god they forgot who would be mad at them. It was there Paul preached, "Men of Athens, I perceive that that you are very religious. For as I passed along the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'To the unknown god.' What you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you [as known]. "The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the b...