Life Advocates Remember Millions Lost to Abortion
“Five years ago, if you had told me we would have 35,000 pro-lifers walking in San Francisco, I would have said you were crazy,” said Eva Muntean, co-founder of the West Coast event. “Now I look out at the thousands of young people who eagerly listen to our message every year, and I see real... Continue Reading
A call to prayer for Tunisia; home of Tertullian, Cyprian and Augustine
Tertullian was a converted Roman lawyer active at the turn of the third century A.D. This groundbreaking church father developed the rudiments of the Western understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity. His refutation of the modalist heresy has been most helpful to those who desire to see God as the Bible reveals Him to... Continue Reading
Pennsylvania abortionist charged with eight counts of murder, including one mother and seven babies
Gosnell has been named in at least 46 malpractice suits, including one over the death of a 22-year-old mother who died of sepsis and a perforated uterus in 2000. Many others also involve perforated uteruses. Gosnell sometimes sewed up the injury without telling women their uteruses had been perforated, prosecutors said. An abortionist who catered... Continue Reading
Vermont loses in Federal Court on religious vanity plate denial after 5 years in court; will issue plates
The state of Vermont has ended a years-long legal dispute with a man who has been fighting for the right to display a reference to John 3:16, one of the Bible’s most famous passages on a vanity plate. The state won’t ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision that said... Continue Reading
Tennessee Legislature Takes Action to Shield Businesses from Gay Agenda
“(This bill is) about protecting intrastate commerce, encouraging competition for government contracts, and reducing regulation and risk of litigation,” he said. “I think the Legislature will see this as a very positive step for our business environment here. I think businesses, if they’re honest, will see that as well.” As local governments across the country... Continue Reading
Shiites are banned in Malaysia – In this Muslim-majority country, it’s OK to be Christian, Buddhist or Hindu. But not Shiite
Malaysia’s ban was issued in 1996 by the National Fatwa Council of top Islamic clerics and seen as unusual in the Muslim world. The council comes under the government’s Islamic Advancement Department, so its decrees are de facto law. Malaysian religious police raided a three-story shop-house last month and detained more than 100 Shiites who... Continue Reading
State-Level Same Sex Marriage Battles Heat Up
“Thankfully, more states are recognizing that the only way to truly protect marriage is to amend their constitutions. Marriage is still the only institution we have with the primary purpose of giving a mother and a father to every child, and every adult should consider this in light of the push to redefine it.” Five... Continue Reading
Holy Habits of Highly Effective Families
Highly effective families still do this. They have rituals not for ritual’s sake, but for the sake of telling THE story. For Christian families, Advent can become a significant teaching time. Lent and Holy Week can also become spiritual tools to remind our families of who we are and what God has done for us... Continue Reading
James Ussher Born January 4, 1581 – Stalwart in Reformed Tradition Dates the Origin of the Earth 4004 B.C.
Ussher is likely most remembered for his scholarly analysis of the genealogies of the Book of Genesis which led him to date the origin of the earth at 4004 B.C. James Ussher, the Irish-born linguist, scholar, pastor-theologian and Anglican Archbishop, was born January 4, 1581. He was reared in Calvinism, and at 13 years of... Continue Reading
Race in the PCA: Redeeming Racial Tension – Part 1
America is not color-blind and likely will never be. Race is ever-present, like a birth defect that you learn to live with but can never cure. Because Scripture speaks powerfully about equality and how to treat one another, I and a number of other black PCA ministers approached byFaith magazine and asked to begin a... Continue Reading
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