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 […]
Christmas is the time of year Christians have the home field advantage. Arguably the biggest global holiday of the year centers around the birth of one person: Jesus Christ. Jesus may be now be sharing the stage with a whole cast of characters from Santa Claus to Frosty to the Nutcracker but He is still […]
It’s always fun when science discovers something the Bible has proclaimed all along. The findings are detailed in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the revelation is that there’s a stash of water deep within the earth. “Current estimates suggest that the deep Earth may hold as much water as all […]
Tim Keller Wants You to Stop Underestimating Christmas– The Gospel Coalition Keller writes Christmas is “the most unsentimental, realistic way of looking at life.” That statement is a long way from the usual Christmas movies we love watching this time of year. Christmas is about much more than magic. It is the incarnation of the […]
The leftovers are almost gone. All that is left of everyone’s favorite Thanksgiving stuffing are the hard pieces. It’s hard to know what to do with the hard pieces of the holidays. As Christmas cards started to arrive this week, I was reminded of the imminent, annual task of the Christmas card list. That list […]
Marco Rubio: World leaders praising Fidel Castro are “hypocrites”– CBS News Fidel Castro did not believe in the existence of a God other than himself. He was a self-glorifying, self-interested person. And how he’s dead. The death of a committed atheist whose worldview led him to lead in ways that had disastrous consequences for millions […]
This week, Americans will be gathering around the Thanksgiving table to count our blessings. Family, health and security regularly top the list. These are good things. Really good things. But even these good gifts are not the penultimate blessings. So, as lots of people are making Christmas lists and checking them twice, what if we […]