Softening rhetoric on homosexuality
Engaging a younger generation about the biblical teachings on homosexuality may be today’s greatest challenge for the evangelical church. In a 2011 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, 62...
View ArticleStill Time to Sign Up For The Lenten Retreat
There is still time to sign up for the Lenten retreat. I am really looking forward to this – a great way to start this season of reflection and refocusing. If you are not in the Seattle area think...
View ArticleInterview: Egyptian Pastor on the Revolution, Coptic-Evangelical Unity,...
To radical Islamists, the church's pastor Dr. Sameh Maurice spoke wise words, and to the bereaved, he spoke words of comfort. Maurice, an evangelical pastor in Cairo, sat down with Brian Stiller, the...
View ArticleTeen Gives Judge the Finger: Gets 30 Days in Jail to Teach Her Lesson (VIDEO)
A teen has given a judge the finger, and received a 30 day jail sentence for the insult.
View ArticleDeepening Your Faith: A Journey Through Colossians
At Gateway Church in Austin, John Burke created a study through the book of Colossians and invited me and Rick Shurtz to help as well. My small group in South Austin is going through Colossians. Here...
View Article2-year-old basketball player’s impressive trick shot video
This toddler’s parents videoed him shooting lots of baskets between the ages of 18 and 24 months, and then they made this highlight reel… (via Reddit)
View ArticleNapoleon Sister Slippers Found in Aberdeen, Scotland (PHOTO)
Slippers belonging to Napoleon's sister have been found in Aberdeen, Scotland according to reports out this week.
View ArticleChristian Baker Under Fire for Refusing Wedding Cake for Lesbian Couple
A Gresham, Ore., baker is now facing fire and praise from both advocates and opponents of same-sex relationships, and an investigation from the Oregon Attorney General's Office after he refused to make...
View ArticleJesus and the Televangelists – Side by Side – You Decide
Grace – We should all have respect for the gift we have been given. Salvation is a gift from God. To be able to spread the gospel is a privilege and an honor. We should not propagate the gospel to fill...
View ArticleCan music and television be a sin?
Music and television itself is not necessarily a sin but it's content can be.
View ArticleLiving Lighter
We just finished volunteering at the Organic River Festival. It's an amazing thing to set up a village out of nothing, share a great experience with a lot of people, and then pack it all down again....
View ArticleEx-Anorexic Christian Woman: The Battle Is in the Mind; God's Image Is Diverse
After penning her struggle with anorexia as a teenager in her first book, Hollow: An Unpolished Tale, Jena Morrow received such an overwhelming response from men and women alike that she wrote a...
View ArticleTODAY'S MASS ONLINE : TUES. FEB. 5, 2013
Mark 5: 21 - 4321And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him; and he was beside the sea.22Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Ja'irus by...
View ArticleWhat Do You Do When You Lose a Volunteer?
Posted by Austin McCann with AustinMcCann.com Volunteers are important for local church ministry. Without volunteers, ministry would not happen within a church. Sure, we have paid staff members, but...
View ArticleToday is Your Best Day Because Christ is in You [Book Excerpt]
Posted by Roy Lessin with New Leaf Publishing Group Enjoy this inspiring chapter from Roy Lessin's Today is Your Best Day: Discovering God's Best for You, available online and in major bookstores and...
View ArticleIs Jonah Saved?
Posted by Jeremy Myers with Till He Comes Do you expect to see Jonah in heaven? Of course you do. I have never heard anyone suggest that Jonah might not be regenerate. Yet there are large swaths of...
View ArticleGhosts crowding in on drone stories
If I weren’t so sick I would have already done this but in the days to come, I hope to mark our anniversary by reviewing some of my work over 2012. But if there’s one thing I already know, it’s that I...
View ArticleThe World's Smallest Car Is Also the World's Worst Car
Host of the U.K. show Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson, has debuted what is likely the world’s smallest street-legal car. The P45 gets great gas milage—and, bonus, you can fill it up without even getting out...
View ArticleMilitary launches DOMA offensive
The military is poised to extend some benefits to the same-sex partners of service members, officials said Tuesday, about 16 months after the Pentagon repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Defense...
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