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| Reasons for Image Obsession Among Girls |  Printer view
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| Topics: | Appearance, Appetites, Beauty, Body, human, Contentment, Coveting, Culture, Eating Disorders, Fitness, Food, Happiness, Hunger, physical, Insecurity, Lifestyle, Motivation, Motives, Parenting, Peace, Peer pressure, Pressure, Priorities, Self-control, Self-discipline, Self-esteem, Self-image, Self-worth, Teenagers, Vanity, Women, World, Worldliness |
| Filters: | Marriage & Sex, Pop Culture, Statistics, Stories, Women, Youth & Children |
| References: | 1 Samuel 16:7 , Proverbs 30:10-31, 1 Timothy 2:9-10, 1 Peter 3:3-5, 1 John 2:15-17 |
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In a 2008 article for Psychology Today magazine, Hara Marano writes about the constant pressure girls face concerning their image. Deprived of an internal compass, girls compete to be "hottest," turning colleges into incubators for eating disorders and numerous unrealistic, self-imposed expectations.
But why?
Marano cites Courtney Martin, author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters. Martin believes ...
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| Drastic Measures for Weight Loss | Printer view
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| Topics: | Appearance, Appetites, Beauty, Body, human, Contentment, Coveting, Culture, Fitness, Food, Happiness, Hunger, physical, Lifestyle, Motivation, Motives, Peace, Peer pressure, Pressure, Priorities, Self-control, Self-discipline, Self-esteem, Self-image, Self-worth, Teenagers, Vanity, Women, World, Worldliness |
| Filters: | Pop Culture, Statistics, Women |
| References: | 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Peter 3:3-5, 1 John 2:15-17 |
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A 2008 Fitness magazine poll of 1,000 women found that women are willing to take drastic steps to reach their ideal weight:
• Twenty-three percent would spend a week in jail.
• Twenty-three percent would shave their head.
• Twenty-two percent would wear a bikini on TV.
• Twenty-one percent would trade ten years of their life.
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| Financial Incentives for Weight Loss | Printer view
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| Topics: | Appetites, Body, human, Fitness, Flesh, Gluttony, Goals, Greed, Health, Human nature, Hunger, physical, Lifestyle, Medical care, Money, love of, Motivation, Self-discipline, Self-image, Temptation, Vices, Weakness, Worth |
| Filters: | Men, Money, Statistics, Women |
| References: | Ecclesiastes 5:10, Ezekiel 34:18, Matthew 6:24, Luke 12:15, Philippians 3:19, Hebrews 13:5 |
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According to a 2007 study by RTI International, a non-profit research organization in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, people are slightly more inclined to lose weight if they're getting paid to do so. Researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill offered different degrees of financial reward to 200 overweight or obese individuals. To a third of the group, they promised $14 for ...
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| Drug Dealer's Home Becomes a Church | Printer view
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| Topics: | Believers, Body of Christ, Christians, Church, Church, body of Christ, Church, Growth of, Community, Evangelism, Evangelism, lifestyle, Family of God, Gospel, Great Commission, Lostness, Miracles, Outreach, Overcoming, Priesthood of believers, Redemption, Saints, Seekers, Soul Winners, Soul Winning, Transformation, Witnessing |
| Filters: | Christian Culture, Everyday Disciples, Stories |
| References: | Isaiah 42:9, Isaiah 43:19, 1 Corinthians 9:19-23, Ephesians 3:20-21 |
| Tone: | Commend |
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Milton and Laura Acosta were a part of our church family while Milton studied nearby at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. When he finished his PhD, they returned to Milton's native Columbia to teach at a seminary. We have kept in touch since their leaving, and Milton once wrote about their church building in Medellin, Columbia:
We are attending a Baptist church in Medellin. We are using what used ...
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| Doctor Calls Man's Overeating Sin | Printer view
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| Topics: | Administration, Body, human, Confrontation, Consequences, Conviction of Sin, Food, Health, Lifestyle, Pleasure, sinful, Sin, Sin, conviction of, Sin, toleration of, Sowing and reaping, Truth |
| Filters: | Everyday Disciples, Stories |
| References: | Luke 17:3, Ephesians 4:15 |
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One of my fellow students in a seminary class was the model of fitness. He ran every day and was clearly in good shape, but it had not always been so. He told us that a few years earlier both he and his father had been very much overweight. Between the hectic schedule of pastoring and schooling, he allowed himself to enjoy a fairly sedentary lifestyle and a regular diet of convenient fast food.
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| The Beginning of Obedience | Printer view
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Trust that God has your best interests in mind and be willing to do what he asks of you, even if you don't understand why. Obedience starts with having a heart that says yes to God.
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