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Since its beginning over ten years ago, Zits has become one of America’s favorite comic strips. Here’s Jeremy Duncan, a 15-year-old aspiring rock musician, riddled with angst, boredom, and parents who don’t understand anything. Sound familiar? Read on. Jeremy’s room is a train wreck, he’s clueless when it comes to helping around the house, awkward with social graces (what are those?), and is always hungry and broke.
Mom and Dad have that stunned “deer-in-the-headlights” look about them that screams “HELP!”
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Family Teams for Christ
“My name is Sally. I am fourteen years old. I used to be a “normal” teenager who loved to play sports, hang out with friends, and listen to music. Recently, I have become obsessed with the fear of getting fat. I live in constant dread of huge hips, thick thighs, and a saggy stomach. While I don’t really want to starve myself, I see no other way to reach my ideal body weight than to regulate calories and exercise vigorously. I am trapped and I don’t know how to stop the cycle. Most of the time I don’t even want to.”
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Counselors Corner
But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat. But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died. And thus, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
(1 Corinthians 8:8–12)
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John Macarthur
Quite often in this space, I highlight aspects of the culture, not always positive, of which we need to be aware and offer ideas on how we can be responsive and influential regarding cultural trends. For this month’s column, I want to celebrate FIVE areas where I am observing that God is working in a profound way through his people.
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Bob Crittendon
