Carmen opens with a question about whether or not “How Great is our God” is a question or a declaration. Reading the lyrics of the Chris Tomlin song: The splendor of a King, clothed in majesty Let all the Earth rejoice He wraps himself in light And darkness tries to hide And trembles at His […]
Carmen’s opening commentary is developed more fully here. Ben Johnson from Action.org engages the question of Muslim calls to prayer being broadcast during Ramadan over loudspeakers in one Minneapolis neighborhood as a religious accommodation during COVID19 shutdown. Ben open up several lines of conversation worthy of further consideration. Ben and Carmen also discuss something we’ll […]
Dr. David Stevens from Christian Medical and Dental Association returns with an update on COVID19 tests, treatments, and bogus claims of cures. He and Carmen also discuss how you can sleep through the night and he shares his own testimony of revival at Asbury 50 years ago. In the second half, Jeff Gowler from Global […]
Are you longing for revival? Carmen is. After discussing the headline news with Nick Pitts from COVID19 to locust swarms devouring Africa to the booming business of do-it-yourself pharmaceutical abortions in the United States, who wouldn’t be ready for revival? In the second half Carmen talks with James Choung and Ryan Pfeiffer, co-authors of Longing […]
Are we ready for all the people God is now drawing to himself in the midst of these days? We have been praying for revival and I have asked openly what that would like when it started to happen. How would we know that people were turning to God? Carmen talks with pastor Mark Vroegop […]
The friendship of Jonathan and David changed the course of human history. King David became the King of Israel in part because the heir-apparent, Jonathan, recognized, facilitated, submitted to, celebrated, empowered and defended David’s ascension to the throne. August 7, 1801 is the date celebrated as the ignition point of America’s second Great Awakening. […]
If you wanted to reach the lost for Christ, where would you go this Easter Sunday? Why not Coachella? That’s where Kanye West is headed with his Gospel themed “Sunday Service.” While no one seems to know exactly what the Chicago based rapper has planned, according to RNS, “West’s Sunday Services have been highly exclusive […]
It started as a walk in the park… Half way between my house and where I pick up one kid from school, there’s a big park called Percy Warner. It’s a great place to walk on a beautiful day – and yesterday was a beautiful day. As I walked through the winter woods completely barren […]
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, when a 19-year-old boy is jeered (for saving his first kiss for the right person) and then forcibly kissed by American idol judge Katy Perry during his audition, how can believers be tilling the cultural soil and advocating for the sexual purity of kids and the honor of […]
I spent the last two days in prayer with leaders representing more than a third of the churches in America. In the spirit of Joel 1:14, we gathered to “Cry Out to the Lord” in solemn assembly. It was a time of united prayer – across all that ordinarily divides us generationally, racially, and denom […]