State of the nation

August 17, 2021

Afghan Christians Prepare for Martyrdom, missionary Robbie Dawkins, and “how would I want them to pray for me?”

” ‘Isa Padeshahe Padeshahan ast’!” (from Robbie Dawkins via Facebook, August 15th): “I was on the phone past midnight yesterday speaking with some young Afghan believers who I helped train […]
July 1, 2021

“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land”: freedom as the nature and theme of God’s word

Don't let them neuter you. Many generations of men gave everything they had so you could walk about in civic freedom. Christ gave the splendor of Heaven and then laid down his life to a cruel death so you could partake of spiritual freedom and the liberty out of which came the civic. No more complacency. It's our time to give it all we have.
April 17, 2021

“See to it that nothing worse happens to you”

A young man with an immune-compromised child stood up and testified to our congregation how devastating it has been for him to be away from church this last year.  “I […]
February 27, 2021

“Don’t Stop Believing”

Can God speak through a 1980s pop song? A few years ago I was praying for my neighbor, who suffered debilitating migraines that commenced during her deployment to Saudi Arabia. […]
January 9, 2021

What I saw Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol

Four coach buses left my hometown Wednesday morning in the darkness of a frosty January morning.  Those of us on board had set aside work and daily demands to make […]
November 11, 2020

High Octane Faith in an El Alamein Moment

“”Now when Jesus heard [of the Centurion’s faith], he marveled and said to those who were following, “Truly I say to you I have not found such great faith with […]
September 2, 2020

The Classroom Pulpit: how the religion of humanism undermined a generation

“The battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a […]
March 29, 2020

A Crowning Opportunity in the Midst of Coronavirus

Last month, an Indiana schoolteacher was ordered to the principal’s office, where she was told that she was an embarrassment to the school and subsequently fired on the spot. Her […]