Sometime soon after Rene Descartes penned the thought “I think, therefor I am.”, science and the church have had a friendly agreement in where science gets all the physical stuff regarding man, and the church has dominion over the mind and thoughts. This coincided with Jesus’ admonition in the Sermon on the Mount that our thoughts were just as much a sin as our actions. It allowed science to take over the investigation of the human without the church offering theological input…

Everyone likes to have fun. Sometimes this fun includes alcohol. Everybody drinks – right? Other times, one might smoke a little grass or even do some recreational drugs, but a lot of people do that – right? Well actually, the number of drinking age Americans that don’t drink alcohol is between 30 and 40 % depending on how the question is asked. Marijuana use in the US is about 15% of adults but there is speculation that may increase as more states pass legalized marijuana laws…

Are you someone who has struggled to free yourself from an addiction? Then you know that it isn’t as easy as just making a decision. You may be perfectly willing, and totally done with the problems that their addiction is causing, but you relapse over and over again. You have gone to church, read a ton of self-help books, and joined the gym, but you keep on using. What gives? For almost 100 years now AA has helped people walk away from alcoholism. They use a method called the 12 steps to learn how to live a life of sobriety…