Graham told a story about his father speaking at a 2000 news conference with George W. Bush in Jacksonville, Florida, on the Sunday before Election Day. That year, after a protracted recount, Florida wound up determining the election’s outcome for Bush. “Now don’t you think that was worth some votes in Florida,” Graham asked, referring to his dad’s appearance with Bush

Andy says it was after that exchange that he started popping up in his father's sermons, not as the heir apparent, but as the Old Testament villain, Absalom. Absalom was the charismatic but treacherous son of David who tried to snatch his father's kingdom away from him through war. "My dad at the time fashioned me as an Absalom who had rebelled against him," Andy says. But Andy himself felt betrayed.

Reformed Baptist and Reformed paedobaptist alike know the importance of the Abrahamic covenant and its continuity, at least in some sense, with the new covenant. And everyone agreed that children, as members of the covenant community under the Abrahamic administration, received the covenant sign. If they were still in the covenant, or at least some type of covenant, how could I neglect giving them the sign?

“I had an opportunity to come back to Covenant in 2003 to work in the advancement office, which was a little bit confusing for me because I really wanted to be a history professor. I felt I would be a better educated professor if I understood what happened on the external side of college,” Derek insists.

I then asked him if the subject came up in a National Public Radio interview I had heard. Dickey responded, “I brought it up. They edited it out. I always look for opportunities to talk about my faith in a way that is congruent with the story or the question that they ask, because it is important to me that people know. Most of the time it will be edited out.”

But Kim cannot be fully, and certainly not fundamentally, understood unless you take into account her faith and the resilience her faith produced. That word – “resilience” – has come to me, as it has to others, time and again from the time Kim was first diagnosed with cancer until her departure from this world... Continue Reading

Buff is the lead pastor at Grace Church, an independent evangelical church where Nguyen serves as youth minister while he finishes a degree in music education at Oklahoma University. The pair spent their days moving through Norman, looking for gaps in homeless services and engaging the homeless in conversations about their lives and their options.... Continue Reading

This is something I prayed a lot about," he says. "I continued to not find peace about it. It just goes so much deeper than golf and my PGA Tour card and my career," he explains. "I didn't want there to be this little chasm in between me and God or me and this thing that I always thought would be on my conscience and weigh on me

When asked again by his own attorney if the Crystal Cathedral had permission to sell his material on the Internet, Schuller said: "I need to discuss that with the Lord." Schuller had trouble remembering answers to other questions, including statements he had made in a court declaration and a sworn deposition.

Sadly, use of pornography is extremely widespread, even among Christian men. Do 100 percent of men regularly view pornography? No, but both secular and Christian surveys regularly indicate that the vast majority (over 70 percent) of men age 18-24 view it regularly (at least weekly) – and those are just the guys who are willing... Continue Reading