Are you a chocolate lover who just can’t eat one piece? Perhaps you can eat a pint of your favorite ice cream and still want more. You are addicted if you compulsively engage in any habit or activity that is spiritually, emotionally or physically is unhealthy. Eating excessive amounts of chocolate not only can have an adverse effect on your skin but it can cause your blood sugar to increase resulting in a myriad of health issues. The ice cream lover has to face the fact that although it tastes good that fat contained in ice cream has the potential to cause heart problems. Generally when we think of addiction we think of alcohol or drugs but we can possibly be addicted to any person place or thing that we put ahead of God.

Can a Christian be addicted to their Pastor?  Substance addiction and religious addiction are fundamentally the same; they are both characterized by an altered mood, the compulsive desire for more and the feeling of withdrawal in the absence of the person place or thing that is addicted to. Many Christians experience mood changes when they hear their Pastor preach; to the degree that they feel as if they are “high” as long as they are in his or her presence. Some have a need for more of what their Pastor has to say so when Sunday comes they say “thank God it’s Sunday!” Unfortunately they don’t realize that God can speak though any one on any day of the week. Then there are those church members who go through withdrawal in the absence of their Pastor. They feel a sense of loss if their Pastor is on vacation or invites someone else to preach. It is not uncommon for some church members to get irritated and cranky in the stage of withdrawal resulting in their walking out of service. Is it wrong for you to love the grace that God has given your Pastor?

In a victory for Christian culture, authorities have decided that Tabitha Ruiz can wear her rosary to school after all.

The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) sent notification on Wednesday of their decision that Ruiz, a student at Seagoville High School, can openly wear the rosary to school. Campus police had mandated that she remove the cross while on campus, but Ruiz went to battle for her faith.

"It's a good day when religious freedom is restored," said Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel at Liberty Legal Institute, which handled the case. "This is a victory for every student in DISD and every person who believes in religious freedom." 
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Is the Church of Jesus Christ discriminating against gays and lesbians? The New Jersey Division of Civil Rights is asserting just that.

The civil rights group claims the United Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association “discriminated” against a self-described lesbian pair by refusing to allow Harriet Bernstein and Luisa Paster to rent its church-owned Boardwalk Pavilion for a civil union ceremony.

“The clash between same-sex unions and religious freedom has arrived, and that clash will increase," says Mathew D. Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law. "We’ve seen a pastor arrested in Sweden for preaching that homosexuality is contrary to biblical principles."