Like Jennifer, she needs some advice but is concerned about how she can make the transition into dating easy on her children. He'd like to date again, and some of his friends say he should start looking for a woman now — after all, he's getting divorced soon.

But John knows better because he's still married, and dating now would go against God's desires.

The selection proves again that while the Lord may “looketh at the heart,” His people are still very much interested in outward appearances.

Their profile pictures are surprisingly provocative—low cut shirts, exposed shoulders, skin-tight pants, pouty lips.

And the Bible says we can know with certainty if we are going to heaven or not: “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” — Romans 8:1 We don’t have to wonder if we will go to heaven when we die. He didn’t wait for us to “clean up our act,” or “get our life straightened out.” He took the first step.

It is up to us to take the next step, which is accepting this gift through faith in Jesus Christ.

If you start dating prematurely, you could be hurting — rather than honoring — those you date.

We cannot earn God’s forgiveness through works (things we do), and we surely don’t deserve it, because we will never live up to God’s standard.And, even if it was possible to be good enough for God, how would you know? It’s easy to say a mass murderer is bad and Mother Teresa was good, but most of us fall somewhere in the middle. The only way for us to be reconciled to God is through the His son.Do you see that there would be no way to know if you were good enough or not? Jesus died on the cross so that we could be reconciled to God: “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” — Romans 5:8 “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” — John Not only did Christ die for us, but we see that God did this while we were still sinners. Dating as an overweight woman can be more difficult.Dating as an overweight conservative Christian woman seems impossible.