For several years after my retirement from the North American Mission Board, along with my work with MarketFaith Ministries, I pastored a small church in Ellijay, Georgia. That area of northwest Georgia is well known for growing delicious apples. Before that time I did not know there are so many…
Seattle Pacific University (SPU) is a Christian college in Washington state. It was originally founded in 1891 in conjunction with the Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church, as the Seattle Seminary. Somewhere along the way, the university has lost its way.
With all of the secular, non-biblical…
Paul Prather is the pastor of Bethesda Church in Sterling, KY. He recently wrote an article for the Lexington Herald Leader in which he detailed the reasons he believes U.S. church membership is at a new low, and is continuing to fall. He noted that Gallup polling indicates that membership…
It seems that in some people’s opinion, almost everybody these days is a racist – well, at least if you are white. Racism, along with many other terms, is being redefined in modern pop-culture. It used to be that a racist was considered to be “someone who thought less of,…
It is fascinating to watch how people who hold traditional biblical values are now being treated by the media, and other institutions of modern society. It is especially interesting to note how churches and other Christian organizations are trashed for promoting the traditional beliefs and values of their faith. This…
It has been almost half a century since the Supreme Court legalized abortion in the United States in the infamous Roe v. Wade decision. In the interim more than 50 million abortion procedures have been reported in this country (no one knows how many have not been reported).Beginning about…
Early in World War II, the United States Marine Corps fighting in the Pacific found they had a serious problem. They discovered that when various units were communicating back and forth over the radio, the messages were being intercepted by Japanese intelligence officers who understood English. They would then pass…
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