by Brian | Feb 25, 2013 | Current Events
Here’s an excerpt from an important article in Christianity Today: In 2012, a new three-phase approach was adopted to wipe out unregistered house churches, which the government saw as a hostile group of dissenters, and force them to join the official Three-Self...
by Brian | Jan 11, 2013 | Culture, Current Events
Several of you have attended the Passion Conferences, organized and spearheaded by Louie Giglio. If you haven’t already heard, Giglio was asked by the President’s Inaugural committee to pray at the President’s second inauguration. Yesterday, after...
by Brian | Jan 10, 2013 | Culture, Current Events
There’s one more section from the Time Magazine article I discussed yesterday which bears some thought. It comes near the end of the article, and offers this quote from Frances Kissling, “a long-time abortion-rights advocate, and former president of...
by Brian | Jan 9, 2013 | Culture, Current Events
The cover story for this week’s Time Magazine, by Kate Pickering, begins this way: “Abortion-rights activists won an an epic victory in Roe v. Wade. They’ve been losing ever since.” Aside from the fact that the whole premise of the article,...
by Brian | Dec 19, 2012 | Current Events
This is an amazing blog post by a Christian missionary in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She relates the tragedy in Connecticut to current tragedy in the Congo and other places in Africa. She observes: Like every other American (and much of the world), I have been thinking...
by Brian | Dec 17, 2012 | Current Events, Meditations
How does God feel about human tragedy? Sometimes we waste time philosophizing, when the Bible holds out clear answers… For instance, our clearest window for seeing who God is to look at Jesus: No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the...
