How Involved are You in Your Church?

March 30, 2016   |  

Last year the Pew Research Center published the results of a survey taken in 2014 gauging the levels of involvement of the members of various American church denominations in their congregations. They rated members as involved at high, medium, and low levels. Pew defined the high category as being officially…
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The Next Moral Domino Down?

April 16, 2015   |  

For the past thirty years or more, secularists and moral relativists, including many who claim to be Christian, have cunningly manipulated the media to convince the masses that fornication, homosexuality, transvestism, gay marriage, sadomasochism, and other practices that in past generations were regarded as wrong (or at least…
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Christian Stewardship Matters!

March 13, 2015   |  

Recently I read where a prominent and popular televangelist is asking 200,000 of his television viewers (I call them “his fans”) to donate at least $300 each for a special fundraising campaign. And what might that campaign be for? So his organization can purchase a new luxury airplane for his…
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Christian Persecution in 2014 was Worst in Modern Era

January 8, 2015   |  

“While the year 2014 will go down in history for having the highest level of global persecution of Christians in the modern era, current conditions suggest the worst is yet to come.” So begins the 2015 Open Doors World Watch List, released on January 7. The annual report is made…
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Take Your Youth Group to See “The Giver!”

August 18, 2014   |  

  What would it be like to live in a world where people were assigned their careers by an all-powerful state? Who would want to live in a place where emotions, sensations, and pain were neutralized by a daily dose of a drug?  Would you want a world without war…
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Hiroshima, Gaza, and the Price of Peace

August 4, 2014   |  

Sixty-nine years ago this week the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing thousands of civilians. President Harry Truman’s decision to use the ultimate weapon was praised by many, especially American soldiers in the Pacific. As one tearful Marine put it, “I…
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The Fabric of Our Faith

June 12, 2014   |  

A number of years ago I worked in the men’s clothing section of a large department store.   I was not there long but I did learn a few things about the garment business. One key thing I learned was about the quality of various fabrics. Fabrics are the basic textile…
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LDS Now Has 85,000 Missionaries!

April 7, 2014   |  

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS/ Mormons) now has more than 85,000 missionaries working in 405 “Missions” around the world. That startling number was announced at the church’s semiannual World Conference earlier this week in Salt Lake City. LDS missionaries are primarily young men who take two…
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Joni’s Hollywood “Not-Friends”

February 3, 2014   |  

  Joni Eareckson-Tada is one of the world’s most admired Christian women. Most of us know her story of how at age seventeen she dived into shallow water and hit a rock that severed her spine. For more than forty-six years now she has demonstrated how God’s grace allowed her …
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