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Joppa’s Greatest Export: God’s Compassion
Posted by Wayne Stiles with WayneStiles.com If you ever get to stay at a seaside hotel in Tel Aviv, be sure and stroll down the beautiful boardwalk to ancient Joppa. I try to do it every time I’m...
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‘Loving the sinner’ in Chick-fil-A gay marriage flap
An outspoken gay-rights activist and a traditional-marriage-advocating fried-chicken magnate walk into a crowded football stadium and … wait, wait … enjoy the game together. Huh!? As the ole cliche...
View ArticleGoals from Vision Night
Please pray with the pastoral staff of Vision Baptist Church. Here are some dreams and desires we have for this year as we launch as a church to do more for the cause of Christ. Yoke Fellow Families We...
View ArticleDispensing sodas, snacks, and death
No condom? No problem. Just pay a visit to the morning-after pill vending machine in the school nurse’s office. And so the conversation will go for many college students, thanks to the Obama...
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Priorities
We seem to have slipped into a generation that wants beautiful houses and costly furnishings at the start of life.
View ArticleYour Religious Alternative to Beyonce at Halftime
For the record – I don’t care that Beyonce lip-synced. Back when I was touring & performing for a living, two guys from my band went to see Destiny’s Child in concert (Beyonce’s old group). In the...
View ArticleBoth Elijah and I were wrong
Do you ever feel, when you’re in the big city, that there's not a Christian for miles around? Does the swirling cocktail of advertising come-ons, dubious money exchanges in street corner huddles, and...
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FRC in the News: January 31, 2013
Rob Schwarzwalder Speaks Out on Boy Scout Issue FRC’s Senior Vice President, Rob Schwarzwalder, was recently interviewed on Fox News about the possible Boy Scout policy change that would go against...
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Woodway Church loses another minister
Jim Gray Jim Gray, 68, associate senior adult minister at First Baptist Church of Woodway, was killed Jan. 30 in a head-on crash a month and a day after the death of the church’s senior pastor, Mike...
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I Think God Believes in Cross Pollinating
A couple of days ago I read an article in the Seed Saver catalogue about the development of the Red Zebra tomato. In 1992, the developer, jeff Dawson noticed that one pant in his row of Green Zebra...
View ArticleBehind the lonely faces of abortion
I wore stockings under my jeans under my sweatpants to the March for Life in Washington, D.C., last Friday. Some said the weather fit the occasion: This march doesn’t belong in July. People should come...
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Is God Ready for Some Football?
The Public Religion Research Institute has polled Americans on the most vexing and persistent question mankind has about the divine. No, not why bad things happen to good people. The other big...
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Scripture on Leadership
Has God called you into Leadership with the position you have or calling you with a position you are seeking? Maybe you are currently leading a group of people within an organization or volunteering?...
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Will Boys Scouts Flip-Flop on Homosexuality Policy--After Only Six Months?
News reports indicate that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) may be on the verge of dropping their longstanding national policy forbidding open homosexuals from serving as Scout leaders or Scouts. What...
View ArticleSSJE brothers offer daily Lenten video series
[The Society of St. John the Evangelist] This Lent, the Society of St. John the Evangelist has created a video series on prayer as a resource for you to share with your friends, colleagues,...
View ArticleCREDO offers ‘Feeding and Fasting’
[CREDO] We celebrate a holy Lent both by taking on those disciplines that bring us closer to God, and shedding those indulgences, habits, and practices that steal our attention. There becomes during...
View Article3 steps to have peace
If we live long enough, some type of tragedy will find its way into our lives. For some it will be the death of a loved one – such as a child, parent, or our spouse. For others it will be a heart...
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Manti Te'o's Prankster Was Actually In Love With Manti Te'o
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man who claims to be behind Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend, has told Dr. Phil that he did the whole thing because he was in love with Te'o. Tulasosopo denied that Te'o had...
View ArticleLent Madness 2013 tip-off set
[Forward Movement] What do you get when you combine a love of sports with a love of saints? Lent Madness, of course. A year after this unique online devotion went viral—with mentions in Sports...
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