Archive for 'Tal'

Billy Graham: Man of the Century


If you lived in Tallahassee in November 2-9 of 1986 you may recall that Billy Graham conducted an evangelistic crusade at the Leon County Civic Center and Doak Campbell Stadium that week. He set a record [...]

How Involved are You in Your Church?


Last year the Pew Research Center published the results of a survey taken in 2014 gauging the levels of involvement of the members of various American church denominations in their congregations. They rated members as involved [...]

Persecution of Christians Growing Worldwide


After the fall of the Iron Curtain, about 25 years ago, I heard a sincere man say that this is the best time in history to be a Christian because persecution will no longer be a [...]

New Poll: Religious Slide Continues in USA


The results of a new poll conducted by the highly respected Pew Research Center for Religion and Public Life (PRCRPL) was released on November 3rd. For many years the PRCRPL has followed the trends in various [...]

Who Can Forgive Sins?


This week the news media is riveted by the visit of Pope Francis to the United States and other Western Hemisphere countries. Even the President and the White House rolled out the red carpet for the [...]

Planned Parenthood and “Situation Ethics”


 In the 1960s an ordained Episcopal priest and Harvard Divinity School ethics professor named Joseph Fletcher (1905-1991) wrote a best selling book titled Situation Ethics. In his lectures and books, Fletcher (who later admitted he was [...]

Gay Marriage is Now Legal, So What’s Next?


  In my last blog (April- way too long ago) I discussed how the table is being set for American moral dominoes to continue to be knocked down. This past week we saw one big one finally [...]

The Next Moral Domino Down?


For the past thirty years or more, secularists and moral relativists, including many who claim to be Christian, have cunningly manipulated the media to convince the masses that fornication, homosexuality, transvestism, gay marriage, sadomasochism, and other [...]

Christian Stewardship Matters!


Recently I read where a prominent and popular televangelist is asking 200,000 of his television viewers (I call them “his fans”) to donate at least $300 each for a special fundraising campaign. And what might that [...]

The Phenomena of “Atheist Chaplains”


Recently the Associated Press ran a story about a former United Methodist youth minister who had come to the conclusion that he did not really believe in God or Christianity. Nonetheless, he still felt a need [...]