A Fowl Story For those of you who have been following the story of Joe the pigeon there’s good news this morning. After confirming that his blue leg band was a fake, Australian authorities have relented and Joe’s life will be spared. https://apnews.com/article/australia-to-kill-pigeon-from-oregon-faae5a66c336c8b2dc902b1ed4270345 For those of you who have NOT been following the story of […]
Instead of Celebrators at the National Mall, We Will See Troops Scenes from our nation’s capital – as preparations are underway for the inauguration of the 46th President include thousands of uniformed, armed military personnel. As of last night, 3000 members of the National Guard were already present in and around the Capitol […]
This is a Cool Idea https://religionnews.com/2021/01/13/clyburn-to-propose-lift-every-voice-and-sing-as-national-hymn/ We talked at the open of the first hour about the need to pray for revival if want things to be changed by God in the land in which we live. Revival, we noted, has never been sent without a concerted plea from God’s people who acknowledge the depth […]
In the Last Times A week ago, CNN commentator Chris Cuomo called Florida Senator Marco Rubio “Mr. Bible Boy,” mocking Rubio’s practice of posting verses of scripture on his Twitter feed and freely referencing relevant passages of Scripture in interviews and elsewhere. Senator Rubio responded: “The verses I tweet are usually the ones chosen by […]
To Impeach or Not to Impeach, That is NOT the Only Question You’re going to hear a lot today about impeachment and whether or not the President of the United States should be removed from office. Let me encourage you to consider that there are valid arguments for and against AND it can be argued […]
Esteeming Marriage In anticipation of a conversation with Toni Nieuwhof about marriage, Carmen wanted to highlight the verse from Hebrews 13 where we are instructed to esteem marriage and hold uphold it with honor. Reading it in the context of the chapter she was reminded of just how much God has to say in […]
Processing Our Public Grief We need public prayers of repentance and responsibility and those who were wrong need to tell those they mislead that they were wrong. In our private conversations we need to recognize that grief is a process, and that people are at different places (many still in denial): some angry, many bargaining […]
What a Mob Looks Like a reminder of the past a warning sign of a sickness within: like chest pains indicate heart disease a forecast of things to come if immediate intervention does not happen a mirror of reality that must not be rationalized away nor minimized in terms of the threat to our nation […]
A Question An Explosive Question in Our Digital Age: Should Tech Giants Have the Power to Silence Users? Which Users? First Facebook shut down the President’s pages then Twitter shut down his personal account. Snapchat, Reddit, Twitch and Spotify followed suit. He pivoted to Parler which Google then removed from the apps available to those […]
Philippians 4 1 Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. 2 I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. 3 Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with […]