Happy #KindnessDay! Today is the 143 day of the year and therefore 1-4-3 day or, in the parlance of Mr. Rogers, I-LOVE-YOU day! That’s right! I=1, Love=4 and You=3…so, 1-4-3- day is the day everyone, everywhere is neighbor-nice! Christians understand the call to sacrificial neighbor-love in acts of mercy from Jesus’ parable of the Good […]
Is your conscience protected or does the prevailing national conscience preempt the individual’s right to freedom of conscience. That is the question Carmen and Ben Johnson from Acton tackle in the first half. Then Josh Straub and Carmen talk about Homegrown: Cultivating Kids in the Fruit of the Spirit. http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/15795/11390210/05-23-2019-Mornings-with-Carmen-HR1.mp3 […]
The headline grabbed everyone’s attention: the commencement speaker announced he was paying off all the student debt of every member of the graduating class. But how much debt could 400 students have $40 million. Yes, let’s right. Every graduating senior from Morehouse was leaving $100K in debt. At 8% interest, you’d have to pay $800/month […]
Drew Griffin from Providence Magazine was back to talk about Iran and Israel – but if you listen to the end you’ll have the treat of hearing him preach. Dr. John Tarwater joins Carmen for a deep dive into the realities on the U.S. southern border. Dr. Tarwater lived and worked in Guatemala and in […]
We need an antonym for gossip. There isn’t one and we need one. We need a word to describe telling good on someone else. We also need something to describe the opposite of a tattle-tale. What do you call a person who tells on other people when they catch them doing good or being kind? […]
#PraytheNews – weather, war and worry… Where in the Word are you today and how are you walking your faith out into the world in ways that honor Jesus? And this: does God belong in Congress or the operating room or the war theater? What about the ball field? On the pitcher’s mound? That’s a question […]
Kids have LOTS of questions but adults do not always hear those questions or worse, we don’t take the question – and the questioner – as worthy of spending time to answer. That’s NOT the experience of now 15 year old, Daniel Myles. His parents welcome questions and along the way those If and What […]
The song declares “God is on the move, on the move, Hallelujah, God is on the move in every time and place,” but sometimes we look around and wonder whether or not that’s true in our time and place. This episode is an open acknowledgment of the movement of God in America today. Surveyed through […]
This episode focuses on what’s on the big screen, small screens and the television screen. Leading off, Carmen talks with PluggedIn’s Adam Holz about A Dog’s Journey, PBS introduction of a gay storyline in the cartoon Arthur, the death of comedian Tim Conway and how smartphones are not making us smarter. In the second half, […]
Don’t miss the miracles. If your media feed is filled with bad news, search for some good news. Type “miracle” into your Search bar and see what’s out there! Today, if you Google “miracle,” you’ll hear about a medical miracle in the U.K. giving you an opportunity to talk abut the Great Physician, healing, hope […]