Did God choose Trump? What it means to believe in divine intervention– Religion News Service In only a few days, Donald Trump will be the 45th President of the United States. When it comes to this election or other events, what does it mean for God to be involved in human affairs? If God is […]
America’s conversation leaders, ranked: Pastors fall between Trump and Kanye– Christianity Today LifeWay Research asked Americans who they believe could lead the conversation on solving our nation’s challenges? There is little agreement, and the largest group of respondents picked “none” — rejecting given options of the President, pastors, celebrities or other public leaders. The bad […]
Time passes and we mark the days, the months and the years. As I look back over all 2016 was and forward to what 2017 will be, the Lord has awakened my mind to mark each day as a day the Lord has made and each year as Anno Domini, the year of the Lord. […]
Words and images can be intentionally co-opted by those seeking to advance particular ideological agendas— without even knowing it. If we don’t know what a boy is then groups like the Boy Scouts and leagues for boys and girls sports lose all meaning. Consider the way in which the image of the rainbow now communicates […]
It’s that time of year when we start making New Year’s Resolutions. Resolutions can be helpful but without an actual plan, things are unlikely to change. I know that for me, my own will is weak, my powers of rationalization strong. Discipline fails without accountability and I’m prone to continue in old patterns instead of […]
Five months ago— five months— the image of a young boy pulled from a bombed building in Syria horrified the world. His name is Omran Daqneesh. He is 5. His home city of Aleppo has been under siege for four years. I considered that our collective Aleppo moment. When the conflict became crystallized in the […]
This will be our final Must Read Monday of 2016. Join us back here in January for more must-reads and the Christian worldview analysis of the headlines. Gatlinburg man who lost wife, 2 daughters in fire forgives accused teens-USATODAY Michael Reed lost his wife and two daughters in the Gatlinburg fires. He posted an open letter […]
During an interview with Oprah Winfrey last week, First Lady Michelle Obama unmasked our national political problem. Oprah asked, “Your husband’s administration, everything, was all about hope. Do you think that this administration achieved that?” Here is the response: Yes, I do. Because we feel the difference now. Now, we’re feeling what not having hope […]
It’s our responsibility as Christians to give what’s real this Christmas. The human memory is a mysterious thing. We can feel like a distant moment “happened only yesterday” but can’t remember what we ate for lunch. Or we can be certain we are recalling an event exactly as it happened, only to be find that our […]
Compassion: 145,000 Children Could Lose Sponsorship by Christmas— Christianity Today When India implemented new regulations governing foreign Non-governmental Organizations, it constricted how funds could enter the country. Despite months of work from interested organizations and lobbying by certain members of the United States government, India has not lifted the regulations, and as a result, 145,000 […]