The New Global Civility
Part 1 “And as we face these difficult days ahead, may we have a new birth of clarity in our aims, responsibility in our actions, humility in our approaches, and civility in our attitudes, even when we differ. “Help us to share, to serve and to seek the common good…
“Rick Warren’s Clout”
Rick Warren vs. The IRS 15 January 2009 Just how powerful is Rick Warren? Ask the IRS. When they tried to collect back taxes from the pastor, Warren used his mega-clout to campaign against them–and won. With the help of Congress, that is, which stepped in to preempt a court…
Food Tactics
Now, what the church has, when I talk about churches, first thing, universal distribution. I could take you to 10 million villages around the world the only thing in it is church. They don’t have a school. They don’t have a clinic. They don’t have anything else. It is the…
Good Apologetics
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” (Proverbs 25:11) For those desiring to hear some good instruction on biblical apologetics, we refer the reader to 4 audio seminars posted online. These four lectures were delivered back in September 2008 by Dr. Martin Erdmann. Go…
“Plead with your mother, PLEAD”
How to Approach a Church Heading Into Apostasy “Plead with your mother, plead:for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband:let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight,and her adulteries from between her breasts.” (Hosea 2:2) Jeremiah Burroughs, who was a minister of the Gospel…
Star Trek Sages
The Magi’s journey of faith. By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Though they are becoming an endangered species in public places, manger scenes can still be viewed on Christmas cards and on wrapping paper. Recently, on one newscast, I saw where a man erected a manger scene on the bed of his…
A GOD MADE IN OUR OWN IMAGE
Part 2: In My Father’s House There Are Many SHACKS? A Critical Essay of William Paul Young’s THE SHACK By Pastor Jeffrey Whittaker “Out there in America, where only three in 10 people attend weekly worship services and millions are ignorant of the Bible, [Young’s The Shack] readers struggle to…
In My Father’s House There Are Many SHACKS?
A Critical Essay of William Paul Young’s THE SHACK By Pastor Jeffrey Whittaker Part 1 It is my desire to undertake this brief essay in order to discuss some of the pertinent elements found within the best-selling book that is the center of so many discussions amongst sincere Christians, as…
Using Poverty to Build the Global 3-Legged Stool
Global Poverty Act of 2007 S2433 RS“To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half…