Entries Tagged as ‘In The News’

May 2, 2008

Economic Stimulus Payment & Christ

By John Piper
For a moment, forget the political puzzle of getting money backwhen the country is nine trillion dollars in debt. The more immediate question is: How will you make much of Christ with your “economic stimulus payment”? The president says it will be in the mail in time for Cinco de Mayo.
Clue: Nobody in [...]

April 26, 2008

Oprah’s Testimony?

Wow.  Interesting comments from Oprah Winfrey don’t you think? It seems from her story here that he did not like what she was hearing from church, but still wanted to keep some form of “spirituality” in her life that fit her views and her perspectives on life.  There are many say things that I was [...]

February 24, 2008

The New Athiesm

There seems to be a huge clash that is about to happen. Recently Rowan Williams (the head of the Anglican church) gave a lecture focused on the area of law. It was really about how a better pluralistic society could work to satisfy everyone in it. The lecture was entirely misunderstood by [...]

February 23, 2008

Expelled: Ben Stein Takes on Evolution

Evolution reigns supreme in the educational institutions of America and Europe. However, there are major holes in the theory that remain even after over a hundred years of intense efforts to fill them in not to mention the billions of research dollars spent along with some of the careers of many of the finest [...]

February 9, 2008

Heaven-At-Death Refuted in Time Magazine

In a recent interview with Time Magazine, Bishop NT Wright made some very encouraging statements about the biblical destiny of Christians. The interview was titled, Christians Wrong About Heaven, Says Bishop (click here for the article). Below are a few quotes that I thought were extraordinary:
In his new book, Surprised by Hope (HarperOne), [...]

January 24, 2008

No kiss, no sex till marriage - Good for you!

Saw this article on the news page of klove.com after reading it, I was proud of this guys commitment to purity and holiness. It is sad that he was mocked on national television and will probably not get anywhere near the exposure for his reasoning and response than the other side will get for mocking [...]

December 11, 2007

Churches Beef Up Security

MSNBC Article - Churches Beef Up Security
In light of the recent church shootings in Colorado, the discussion has been raised concerning whether or not churches should have armed security to patrol Sunday services.  The armed woman in the Colorado church this week was able to shoot and deter the gunman from killing more churchgoers, yet [...]

November 15, 2007

Sadness in Serbia

Disturbing conditions for Serbia’s disabled (Video)
MSNBC Article
Pray for these children and adults.  Come quickly Lord Jesus.
Any thoughts or observations?

October 22, 2007

Wake up call for Willow Creek

Link here: http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2007/10/willow_creek_re.html
I was frankly shocked to see this article. It gave me much joy. I was happy that a major church realized that people aren’t growing spiritually, and realizing that this means they need to change how they approach the people and essentially what they are doing at the church there in [...]

October 11, 2007

Halo in the church?

Thanks to JohnO for this link:
NYTimes: “Thou shalt not kill, except in a popular video game at church”

What do you think?