Making Your Church a Lay Seminary – Part 2

January 25, 2023   |  

According to Scripture, it is God’s purpose for every human being to live in relationship with Him. In fact, this was His purpose for creating mankind in the first place. Sadly, not everyone chooses to do that, but that is His purpose. As a part of that relationship, God has…
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Making Your Church a Lay Seminary – Part 1

January 20, 2023   |  

Probably one of the most difficult things for most churches is to develop a top notch discipleship training program. This would be a program that prioritizes the essential foundational elements every Christian needs in order to confidently and effectively express their faith in modern culture. But simply having a program…
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Does Transgender Actually Exist?

January 19, 2023   |  

Culture war issues are pervasive these days in American society, and one of the most prominent (and most fierce) is the battle over transgenderism. And some of the expressions of this battle are, literally, insane. But as you might expect, those who support the transgender movement see it differently. They…
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The Difference Between God’s Creation and God’s Children

December 29, 2022   |  

Father James J. Martin is an American Jesuit priest, writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America, the national Catholic magazine. In 2017, Pope Francis appointed Martin as a consultant to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications. He is particularly known for his bridge building with the homosexual community. Not too…
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Religious Centrists are not Centrists

December 22, 2022   |  

John Avalon is a political analyst for CNN, and he wrote an opinion piece entitled, “Is there room for a religious left?” (https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/opinions/joe-biden-pope-francis-politics-and-faith-avlon/index.html). In some ways the article was a bit strange in that its entire focus had to do with political affiliations rather than religious beliefs. At…
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