Easter. After you acknowledge and recognize and revel in the reality of Easter – Christ is risen from the dead! Death has lost its sting! Reconciliation with God is available! – everything, and I do mean everything, pales. The headlines, as horrific and discouraging as they may be, look different through the lens of Easter. […]
Reconnect One, with Carmen LaBerge: “What makes Good Friday good and Black Friday black?” Popped the question from the 10-year-old in the back seat. Reaching back to my B-school course in retail marketing I answered, “Well, on Black Friday, retailers try to pull out of the red of debt and get into the black, turning […]
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Glory, Hallelujah! The resurrection as the epicenter of Christianity – “You shall be my witnesses” Calvin Miller describes the resurrection of Jesus Christ as the epicenter of Christianity – an epicenter that is both personal and universal. Epicenter Universal faithquake Personal faithquake Read Thomas Oden’s The Event named Resurrection […]
What did you celebrate yesterday? While millions awaited the release of the first episode of the 8th and final season of Game of Thrones and millions more watched the Masters victory of Tiger Woods, heralded as the Comeback King, still others waved palms and recognized the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem ahead of what we […]
It’s tax time again! Taxes are, by their very nature, taxing. If someone tells you Christians don’t have to pay taxes, they’re misinformed. Peter asks directly and Jesus answers that we are to render unto Caesar the government’s due and render unto God His due as well. So tithe, then pay taxes, then render the […]
Africa in the aftermath of cyclone Idai (ee-day). The dead won’t be known until the waters subside but millions are affected and the second and third waves of crisis are yet to come as cholera, malaria hit and a food crisis looms. Mozambique – first reported cholera death. Zimbabwe – farms destroyed, deepening food crisis […]
Who is Christian and what is authentic Christianity in an age of counterfeit faiths? That is the subject of Carmen’s conversation with Dr. Albert Mohler, President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Mohler hosts two programs: “The Briefing,” a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview; and “Thinking in Public,” a series […]
Israel Missile fired from Hamas controlled Gaza strip hit a house in Tel Aviv, injuring 7. Israel responded by sending 1000 additional troops to the 58 mi. border. Demonstrators in Gaza are protesting both Israel and living conditions under Hamas. Pray for peace and a de-escalation. The U.S. announcement of recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over […]
Maybe you’ve heard that America’s national debt topped 22 trillion dollars in early 2019. That’s a crushing load of debt too big for us to get our minds around and yet, it keeps growing. So how do we get God back into that conversation? Well, there’s a hymn called Come Thou Fount which includes a […]
Sam Allberry is a pastor and writer from Maidenhead, UK currently serving at Cedarville University. Sam is a global speaker for Ravi Zacharias International Ministries and an editor, writer and speaker for The Gospel Coalition. He is the author of a number of books on Christian belief, including Why Bother With Church?, James For You, and […]