The Leadership Mind by Teddy A. Jones

Surviving a Fast Adam Smith   http://www.relevantmagazine.com/features-reviews/god/16141-surviving-a-fast  Lent is upon us, and the time has come for making some sacrifices. For many of us who grew up in a strongly evangelical environment, Lent can be somewhat foreign. But as many people return to the ancient practices of Christianity, liturgical practices like Lent are becoming more common. One way to dive into Lent is an all-out fast. In our consumer society where fast food commercials try to convince us to instantly satisfy our every craving, a fast is a countercultural statement. Add to that the fact that it's a rich and biblical part of Christian tradition. If you want to undertake a fast, but never have before, here are a few tips to help you succeed. Set an Attainable Time Goal A couple years ago I decided to write an article for the magazine about fasting. My best friend and I planned to document our journey as we fasted from all food for 40 days. We both made it...

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Crossed Passion, Overlapping Wires “Yesterday for the first time, I engaged in lesbian sex.   I was part of sex party with four other girls.   I know it is wrong but I enjoyed it so much and I want to keep on doing   this for now.   Please do not pray for me. Some 5 th form girls at my school have been making passes at me for some time now and I have always been rejecting them but now I am one of them.” When I was at college there were many lecturers and fellow students who somehow came to me and told me that they felt that they could confide in me that they were having homosexual struggles.   I then told them that we were in the same boat.   Many times they would invite me over to their office or their homes so that we could share and pray together for our struggles.   It always turned out that that was their way of trying to lure me there in the hope that we would have sex.   After all these years, I tried talking to my pastor about it, I have been to counselling and nothing is ...

“A Religious and Ethical Perspective On Sexuality” A Redemptive and Integrative Approach This paper seeks to take a redemptive and integrative approach to a religious and ethical perspective on sexuality. This is deemed necessary because there is a wide perception that all the religious fraternity and religiously informed ethicists has to bring to the table on this matter is a prohibitive stance of “Thou Shalt Not!” Admittedly the religious community has played it own part in the ‘demonisation’ of sexuality. The Puritans with their very best intentions who went as far as to instruct that if either partner made the slightest sound during intercourse that would indicate they were experiencing pleasure the silent part was to report that person to the clergy and the staunch dogma of ‘procreation only’ approach in other religious quarters of today serve as examples this demonization. I wish to affirm that human sexuality is very much a part of God’s creation as...

The Jamaican press has spent some amount of time reporting on the confession of the Police Officer who confessed to fabricating evidence a few years ago in a murder investigation and trial. The move was prompted by the officer becoming a Christian. For his actions he has been branded as a traitor and a breaker of the code of silence which apparently officers take in training that they will stand by their word once given ( irrespective of the veracity of that spoken word). it would seem that he has become somewhat of a pariah among some of his colleagues. Something just strikes me as being very wrong about all of this. I shared a few thoughts on the matter in the gleaner We have a culture in which those who take a stand for justice and what is right are held up as the trouble makers, the bad ones, the informers. Criminality thrives and flourishes in that kind of environment for the criminals even count on the silence of the people. I say that there is the need for much more of ...

From time to time some new song is aired and there are calls for it to be censored. Immediately the preachers of the freedom of speech argument get agitated. There have been instances when the Broadcasting Commission has intervened and actually banned some songs. A recent one was Chuck Fender's, 'Gash dem and light dem.' Advocating harsh penalties against child molesters, rapists etc. The commission claimed that a better lyric would have been, try them and incarcerate them. Fender refused to adjust his lyrics and the song was banned. In light of the difficulties the JCF is facing to get persons who witness the many brazen, even daylight murders and other acts of violence it seems to me that someone in authority needs to take a zero tolerance approach against artists who continue to label those who talk to the police as informers, and advocate that informer fe dead. The persons wants to see justice and the back of crime and violence broken and is willing to speak out ...

Scientist tell us that that once we enter into REM(Rapid Eye Movement) sleep we dream each night, its just that we dont always recall that we had a dream. Dreams can be very very embarassing to say the least and bothersome. I find that dreams are for the most part a subject that very little is know of. With all kinds of theories as to their origin, interpretation, and meanings. Some have made major life changes as a result dreams, some have become depressed and suicidal as a result of dreams. Some make a career out of dreams. Dreams have also been used by God to speak to His people, this is quite frequent in the OT in particular. In my own experioence I have had dreams that were very vivid, and shortly after awakening, I was given the interpretation by the Holy Spirit. Other times its not quite clear. This morning I awoke at 3:11 a.m, having had a very disturbing dream. I am still praying through the interpretation of it. I am almost complete in my assessment and it is disturbing as it...