Category: News

During a standoff with police in a Texas hospital room, a father begged staff to give his “brain dead” son a few more hours before taking him off life support.  Eleven months ago George Pickering II was in a very different place in his life. He was in jail, charged with two counts of aggravated… Continue reading Dad took gun into hospital… saved son’s life

Paul wrote in Philippians 1:2; Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul feels that the ordinary Greek salutation χαίρειν or the Eastern εἰρήνη σοι is too meager for Christian intercourse.  But closely connected with χαίρειν is his own great watchword χάρις, a word which, perhaps, above all… Continue reading Grace and Peace

If you struggle with worry or stress has its grip on you, then you are on a path I have walked. From time to time, this path still emerges and beckons me down it’s shadowy corridor. But now, I have employed solid, daily practices that have helped me not to be gripped by anxiety. I… Continue reading From Anxiety to Peace

We live in a world today that’s fascinated with holidays that celebrate gluttony and everything dead, and news headlines that exploit human evil actions for ratings.  From movies to comics we are inundated with goblins, villains, zombies, skeletons, and ghosts.  Let’s not get defensive or “religious” when thinking of all of this evil, but let’s… Continue reading Evil | The Invisible Reality

According to a Fox News report, Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke says he’d strip churches of tax-exempt status if they don’t support same-sex marriage.  When the former Texas congressman was asked if religious institutions — “colleges, churches, charities” — should be stripped of tax-exempt status Thursday night by CNN anchor Don Lemon during the LGBTQ town… Continue reading Beto threatens churches’ tax-exempt

No, Judge Tammy Kemp did not violate the First Amendment by hugging Amber Guyger and giving her a Bible. In case you have not heard the story, in a Dallas courtroom, Guyger had just been found guilty of murder and given a 10-year sentence. The brother of the dead man asked to speak to Guyger,… Continue reading Judge Tammy Kemp; Godly and American

Again, in the face of the entire Europe, Norway’s infamous child welfare agency known as Barnevernet is doing business as usual; preying on children and families.  This time, according to Christian News, CBN, published on September 2019 the news; “Our Hearts Are Shattered’: Norway Takes Permanent Custody of 3 American Children from Christian Parents”. In… Continue reading Norway Takes Custody of American Children

According to Wikipedia, Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin. Biblical apocrypha are a set of texts included in the Latin Vulgate and Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible. While Catholic tradition considers some of these texts to be deuterocanonical, Protestants consider them apocryphal. Thus, Protestant bibles do not… Continue reading Apocrypha

A new film tells the story of the “fastest-growing church” in the world, an underground, persecuted Christian movement in a country known for exporting radical Islamic terrorism — Iran. People in Iran, a Muslim-majority nation, are fleeing Islam in droves as believers bow their knee to Jesus and become aggressively pro-Israel, according to the documentary “Sheep Among Wolves Volume II.” “What if… Continue reading World’s ‘fastest-growing church‘

In this devotion, I want to zoom in on the disciple Peter. Specifically, I want us to walk together through Peter’s big (yet seemingly small) mistakes that culminated in the worst moment of his life. Spoiler alert: Peter denies Jesus. He doesn’t just do it once. He denies him three times. Now, you’ve got to… Continue reading Soul Sabotage