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NOVEMBER 2018 Volume 9 - Issue 82 EDITORIAL Like a Match in a Dry Forest In a Judaeo-Christian culture, each person possesses intrinsic value bestowed by God. “So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27 Pornographers do not share God’s perspective. They see people as their livelihood and take advantage of their vulnerability. Their maltreatment of others is inconsequential to them, as long as they make money. At the same time, consumers of this toxic filth may see their own families, friends and children as different than those who are used and abused in pornography and strip clubs. This self deception can be rationalized. Their search for sexual gratification clouds their concern for others. How we view others impacts how we treat them. Anyone who doesn’t believe that pornography has victims is dead wrong. Sometimes their awakening comes belatedly, after incredible [irrevocable] harm has been done to many people - including themselves. Helen Gurley Brown [the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine] convinced the late Burt Reynolds to pose nude for her magazine. Intrigued and flattered, he took the bait. Reynolds later called his decision one of his biggest mistakes, “a fiasco.” Pornography is intrinsically evil. Whether it is a lucrative offer to pose nude, or a predatory pornographer who has you in his cross-hairs, pornography destroys like a match in a dry forest. Ann Redding is president of Christian Action League of Minnesota and editor of The Beacon. Her email is: [email protected]. City Pages That repentance and love for God would sweep our nation. “You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.” Psalm 63:1 STRUGGLING WITH AN ADDICTION TO PORN? There is help! https://www.calofmn.com/resources P.O. Box 583057 • Minneapolis, MN 55458 www.calofmn.com Gabe’s by the Park carries City Pages. City Pages promotes vice. The owners of Gabe’s should ask themselves, “Is it ethical to have ads for strip clubs in our establishment?” Tell Gabe’s how you feel.

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Page 1: NOVEMBER 2018 Volume 9 - Issue 82 Beacon_2018.pdfGenesis 1:27 Pornographers do not share God’s perspective. They see people as their livelihood and take advantage of their vulnerability

NOVEMBER 2018 Volume 9 - Issue 82

EDITORIAL

Like a Match in a Dry Forest

In a Judaeo-Christian culture, each person possesses intrinsic value bestowed by God.

“So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27

Pornographers do not share God’s perspective. They see people as their livelihood and take advantage of their vulnerability. Their maltreatment of others is inconsequential to them, as long as they make money.

At the same time, consumers of this toxic filth may see their own families, friends and children as different than those who are used and abused in pornography and strip clubs. This self deception can be rationalized. Their search for sexual gratification clouds their concern for others.

How we view others impacts how we treat them. Anyone who doesn’t believe that pornography has victims is dead wrong.

Sometimes their awakening comes belatedly, after incredible [irrevocable] harm has been done to many people - including themselves.

Helen Gurley Brown [the former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine] convinced the late Burt Reynolds to pose nude for her magazine. Intrigued and flattered,

he took the bait. Reynolds later called his decision one of his biggest mistakes, “a fiasco.”

Pornography is intrinsically evil. Whether it is a lucrative offer to pose nude, or a predatory pornographer who has you in his cross-hairs, pornography destroys like a match in a dry forest.

Ann Redding is president of Christian Action League of Minnesota and editor of The Beacon. Her email is: [email protected].

City Pages

That repentance and love for God would sweep our nation.

“You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.”

Psalm 63:1

STRUGGLING WITH AN

ADDICTION TO PORN?There is help!

https://www.calofmn.com/resources

P.O. Box 583057 • Minneapolis, MN 55458www.calofmn.com

Gabe’s by the Park carries City Pages. City Pages promotes vice. The owners of Gabe’s should ask themselves, “Is it ethical to have ads for strip clubs in our establishment?”

Tell Gabe’s how you feel.

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NOVIEMBRE 2018 Volumen 9 - Tema 82

Ann Redding es presidente del Christian Action League of Minnesota y editora del Beacon. Su direccion de correo electronico es [email protected]

City PagesEDITORIAL

Que el arrepentimiento y amor a Dios barrería nuestra nación.

Tiempo de oracion

En una cultura judeocristiana, cada persona posee un valor intrínseco otorgado por Dios.

“Y creó Dios al hombre a su imagen, a imagen de Dios lo creó; varón y hembra los creó.” Génesis 1:27

Pornógrafos no comparten la perspectiva de Dios. Ellos ven a las personas como su medio de vida y se aprovechan de su vulnerabilidad. Su maltrato de los demás es intrascendente para ellos, siempre y cuando ellos ganan dinero.

Al mismo tiempo, los consumidores de esta basura tóxica pueden ver sus propias familias, los amigos y los niños tan diferentes que los que se hace uso y abuso de la pornografía y la tira clubes. Esta auto engaño puede ser racionalizada. La búsqueda de la satisfacción sexual nubes su preocupación por los demás.

¿Cómo vemos a los demás impactos cómo los tratamos. Cualquier persona que no cree que la pornografía tiene víctimas es totalmente equivocado.

A veces su despertar llega con retraso, después de un daño increíble [irrevocable] se ha hecho para muchas personas - incluidos ellos mismos.

Helen Gurley Brown [el ex editor de la revista Cosmopolitan] convenció a finales

del Burt Reynolds a posar desnuda para su revista. Intrigado y halagado, le mordió el anzuelo. Reynolds más tarde llamó a su decisión de uno de sus mayores errores, “un fiasco”.

La pornografía es intrínsecamente mala. Ya se trate de una lucrativa oferta para posar desnuda, o un pornógrafo depredadora que usted tiene en su punto de mira, la pornografía destruye como una cerilla en un bosque seco.

“Tú, Dios, eres mi Dios, yo te busco intensamente; tengo sed de ti, todo mi ser te anhela, en tierra seca y árida donde no hay agua.”

Salmo 63: 1

Al igual que una cerilla en un bosque seco

Gabe’s by the Park lleva City Pages. City Pages promueve el vicio. Los propietarios de Gabe deberían preguntarse, “¿Es ético tener anuncios de clubs de la tira en nuestro establecimiento?”

Dile a Gabe’s de cómo se siente.

¿LUCHANDO CON UNA ADICCIÓN AL PORNO?

¡Hay ayuda!

https://www.calofmn.com/resources

Ningún acto de bondad, por pequeño que sea,

se pierde. Aesop