Across our nation, American people are asking, “What’s going on?” A real true fear is bubbling up as we watch a radical shift take place before our eyes. Long held cultural values are being challenged and overthrown. Just watch the faces and listen to the voices of the new radical congresswomen. Fully intent on proclaiming their destructive beliefs and lies,…
We are living in the midst of a great cultural war which is trying to overthrow our beliefs, values, traditions, and our American history. Our minds are being besieged with radically different ways of looking at the world and our place in it. From protecting our children to killing babies, from respecting the rule of law to illegal immigration, from…
We live in a culture in decay, losing faith in God and discarding His ways. This faith has been the force behind our American character! We inherited a national tradition that is ultimately spiritual in origin—faith in God, in ourselves, in our nation, and in our future (Stuart Miller, Understanding Europeans). It was faith that carried us to national greatness.…
There are five popularly accepted movements that are working to overturn the foundations of our country. If we value our cultural and spiritual heritage and its freedoms, like the freedom to speak our honest beliefs and opinions without fear of reprisal, we must wake up and use our voice.
Many people feel lost for much of life. They do not know who they are or why they are here—they lack meaning and purpose for their own individual life. In the early part of the last century, American psychologist David Seabury explained that two questions lie in the center of each person: “Who am I?” “What is it all about—this…
What is Bitterness? Something that is bitter leaves a bitter taste in our mouths, producing a biting disagreeable sensation in the tongue. In a figurative sense, emotions such as extreme enmity, grudge, hatred produce a bitterness in the heart of man which is manifested through the words spoken―bitterness of anger, sharpness, severity of temper. The Bible warns us about not…
Terrorism, mass killings, violence, hatred … what’s going on? Still reeling from the recent pipe-bomb threats, we were shocked by the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter saying, “All Jews must die!” And what about the poster pasted on trash cans in New York City, showing a white woman wearing a red Trump hat, holding a Bible in her hand—with a giant X…
Watching events in Singapore unfold, I thought about some truths I’ve learned about life. Only an individual can be a carrier of life—not our institutions, organizations, governments and their policies, or even churches with their dogmas and doctrines. It is only through our individual genuineness and aliveness that we can significantly touch others. Only our capacity to be truly present…
After we receive Jesus, there are two things we need to become knowledgeable of: 1) how to use our faith, and 2) the Holy Spirit. Since we celebrate Pentecost next Sunday, I want to focus on the Holy Spirit. We need to understand who the Holy Spirit is, the work of the Holy Spirit, how the Holy Spirit leads us,…
Most Christians know the story of Easter by rote, but for many the full reality of it has not entered into their hearts. They have little revelation about Jesus Christ and His work on the cross. Without revelation in our hearts we end up with a sterile religion, empty of any power to change us on the inside or enable…