Heart disease can be a disguised unsuspected killer. The person looks healthy. There are few warning signals. But suddenly there is that radiating pain down the arm or that pressure in the chest. All of us know loved ones and friends who have had this experience. But did you know that at the core of your being there is something even more important than the blood pump in your chest?

The atheistic philosopher Nietzsche once said, “If these Christians want me to believe in their redeemer, then they need to act a lot more redeemed.” One of Satan’s most powerful tools used to keep Christ followers enslaved under his rule is our failure to put what we believe into action. We need to have right thinking about God in our minds, but it needs to grab a hold of our hearts and get into our feet as we live in the office, the home, and the school.

Today’s Truth Encounter is committed to helping us discover exactly what it means to be a “good neighbor.” Our discussion turns to a forgotten art in contemporary America--the art of neighborliness. Dave shares some down home sense from Proverbs 3 on how to have a healthy relationship first with God and then with the people living next door and down the street.

The modern women’s movements love to paint themselves as the revolutionaries who set women free to be all they can be. For this reason it is fascinating to pick up a portrait of womanhood from 900 BC and discover that this noble woman from the past could give any superstar feminist a run for their money and yet, strangely, she still cherished the love and priority of home and family.

What are the virtues we should seek to develop in young women? Movies tend to mock the old fashioned idea that young women should be taught the feminine graces and some modern women’s groups call any emphasis on the distinction between the sexes bigotry. At the opposite extreme some traditional religious groups have locked women in a household slavery that denies their unique gifts. Where does the Bible fit into this tug of war between militant feminists and chauvinistic traditionalists?

Our society is convinced that the key to getting people to behave sexually is to give them facts about it. Having the right information in their heads will get the right actions into their bodies. Facts make a poor defense against lust’s heavy artillery. How do you conquer false loves? How do you find true love when all you keep finding is destructive, selfish lust? These are the questions to be answered in today’s Truth Encounter.

Abstinence from sex before and outside of marriage. Thousands have made vows of chastity and we need to encourage this return to purity. But what about those who have already fallen into the pit of sexual immorality? Is there any way to get out? Can there be cleanness again for those already soiled in sexual impurities? Today we turn to those already ensnared in its grip.

It keeps happening within even the church community. It soils the purity of white wedding dresses. It mocks the stability of covenant promises. It causes children to be robbed of adults who can model moral standards for them. What is this enemy that is causing so much pain and destruction? Sexual sin. From pastors to evangelists to kids in our youth groups, sex sin is destroying any credible witness to the power of Christ to change lives. Why has sexual scandal become so common among evangelical believers? What can we do about it? What about our own personal pulls into this dream like world of intrigue and lust?

Sounding the alarm against sexual sin—that is what the wise instructors in the book of Proverbs did and that is what we intend to do as we continue our series on how to raise godly kids in a godless age. The sixties generation believed it is impossible to control one’s sexual desires--they must be expressed--so their solution is to hand out condoms and hope the teenagers will use them. These so-called modern sex educators want our children to bet their lives that a condom will prevent them from disease and pregnancy. The ancient sex educators of the Old Testament gave far more protective advice.

Sexual immorality is tearing families and churches apart and our study today will take us into this world of the huntress and the hunter as we learn how God’s handbook for skillful living--the ancient book of Proverbs--still has the information we need to overcome the seduction of lust. We are in the midst of a vital series titled “Street Smart Godly Kids,” and it has been incredible to see how straightforward the biblical text is about sex.