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Does Your Pastor Get a preaching Break During the Summer? By: Josh Reich Sermon Central.Com, July 7, 2015. I am coming off of my summer preaching break at Revolution. When we started the church five years ago, I preached almost 100 times in the first two years. While it seemed necessary at the time, it […]
I remember one time years ago when our area had a garbage strike. (It’s not a great memory!) The garbage piled up in our garage while the sanitation folks figured out their deal, and it took a while. And it took awhile to get the smell out of our garage. Now, I know how nasty […]
I have not seen anyone in the national media who is speaking or writing about this, but there is a Marxist connection to the Same-Sex Marriage movement. You will want to read Anne Hendershott’s article! Dr. Hendershott begins: While most commentators credit the sexual revolution and the Stonewall uprising of 1969 as the “beginning” of […]
By: Bob Smietana ELVERT BARNES / FLICKR The second act of the national debate over same-sex marriage began this week with a focus on religious liberty. The Liberty Institute framed Friday’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage as actually a victory for religious liberty. The assessment was somewhat surprising, given that the group had gathered […]
By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN Sat June 27, 2015) The battle over same-sex marriage may have drawn to a dramatic close Friday at the Supreme Court. But as several justices noted in forceful dissents, the war between religious and LGBT rights is far from over. In a landmark opinion, a divided Supreme Court […]
By Josh Reich If the father is the first in the household to become a Christian, there is a 93 percent probability everyone else in the home will follow. Most churches today, as has been true for the last few decades, are made up of more women and children than men. Yet in most churches, […]
By Tim Popadic Each year in our high school the fathers of the graduating class come together for a Father and Son BBQ (which is really code for “life-sized Jenga, cornhole and really good food.”) However, there is also the random possibility that fathers will be encouraged to share their feelings (a rarity), which could […]
BY Richard Greene With cancer eating away at her, the Iraqi woman faced a devilish dilemma: convert to Islam and receive treatment or remain true to Christ and die. Ten days later she was dead. The 45-year-old woman and her husband had made the treacherous journey late last summer to the hospital in Mosul in […]
By Katelyn Beaty In all the battles waged by men, one of the most effective ways to destroy the enemy is to destroy its women. Rape and sexual abuse are wartime “strategies” as old as war itself. Yesterday The New York Times ran a devastating report that hundreds of girls as young as 11 have been raped and […]
Christianity in the United States may look very different in 10 years. By Ed Stetzer As someone who both cares about the mission of the church and leads a research organization, I watch the trends in the church and the culture. Occasionally, someone asks me to share some thoughts on the big picture, in the […]