Who is to blame?
That is the primary question that President of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, is seeking to answer in his new book Secular Sabotage. And the answer? Secular liberals. Even more, it is a calculated war they are waging in their effort to destroy religion and culture in America.
His first chapter, titled Revenge [...]
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Welp, the Christmas season is upon us and, true to form, Focus on the Family is continuing their campaign to save Christmas from all those evil retailers who substitute “Merry Christmas” with “Happy Holidays” or “Seasons Greetings.” They even started a website where consumers can go and rate businesses based on how Christmas-friendly they are. [...]
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I’ll be honest, I kind of hate the week or two leading up to Thanksgiving. Everyone is always talking about all the things they are thankful for: family, friends, spouses, clean water, food, jobs. That’s great and I think we should definitely be thankful for all the good things in our lives, but at some [...]
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The notion of a female God is nothing new.
But what is new within the past 100 years or so is the notion that the Christian God is, or should be female.
The idea of a masculine God, particularly in a patriarchal society, makes it very difficult for some people to relate to God. This is no [...]
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I preached the following sermon on November 22nd, 2009 at The Gathering Student Ministries High School youth group. The sermon titled “Lean Not” is the third in a series based around Andy Stanley’s The Principle of the Path. (If you would like to listen to the sermon before this titled “Looking Ahead” click here)
Lean [...]
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I recently took a friend of mine out to dinner for his birthday. As we were eating he was telling me about how he was struggling with the fact that his mentor is very ill with cancer and may be dying soon. Interestingly, when I asked him how he would take it if his [...]
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A friend and I were recently engaging in a theological discussion while smoking hookah (one of my favorite combinations) and we came to disagreement on a particular subject: will some people be punished more harshly in hell than others/will some people receive greater rewards in heaven than others?
To both questions, I answered “Yes.” To both [...]
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For the full version of this review and to stream the full album, visit the article at Wrecked.org
I’m not a media reviewer. So when I received a copy of Switchfoot’s new album to write a review on, I knew I was in over my head. Having never reviewed music before, attempting to dissect one of [...]
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I preached the following sermon on November 7th, 2009 at The Gathering Student Ministries High School youth group. The sermon titled “Looking Ahead” is the second in a series based around Andy Stanley’s The Principle of the Path. Two apologies: first, the recording ends before the sermon is done by a minute or two…technical problems. [...]
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