Feb 20, 2014 | Culture & Society
Belgium made international headlines last week for extending euthanasia to children. Apparently, killing terminally ill children on demand isn’t quite edgy enough for the right-to-die camp. Now, a decade after legalizing euthanasia, the Netherlands is debating...
Feb 13, 2014 | Culture & Society
Last week we watched an historic debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye. What were the implications? President Obama prayed at the National Prayer Breakfast. What does that say about his spirituality? Are pulpits in America doing enough to preach and prophesy God's...
Feb 13, 2014 | Culture & Society
NBA center Jason Collins and University of Missouri defensive lineman Michael Sam aren’t drinking buddies, but they may soon have more in common than a love for the sports at which they excel. If reports from the New York Times and ESPN are accurate, Sam, who...
Feb 13, 2014 | Culture & Society
Doctors want to put a premature end to their unborn baby's life, but one Australian couple refuses to take this hypocritical action just because their bundle of joy has two faces—and two brains. That Australian couple, Renee Young and Simon Howie, are my...
Feb 6, 2014 | Culture & Society
Cosmopolitan is known for its raunchy sex tips proudly displayed on its cover each and every month. Now, the progressive women’s magazine is turning its attention to the most disturbing sex tip of all: abortion. Headlined “Our Choice: How Abortion Changed...
Feb 6, 2014 | Culture & Society
What can you say about a nation that reads Facebook more than the Bible? Facebook, which celebrated its 10th birthday on Tuesday, reports 757 million daily active users. About 19 percent of them are in the United States and Canada, which translates to about 143...
Jan 31, 2014 | Culture & Society
Editor's Note: The video described in this article is offensive on many levels. The mockers are manifesting some of their blasphemous best this week in a new pro-abortion public service announcement that shows the antichrist spirit is growing bolder. Rising...
Jan 24, 2014 | Culture & Society
Over the years, I’ve had a number of people ask me if dogs go to heaven. That’s the subject of hot debate, but it turns out some dogs do go to church. I’m not sure if it’s a publicity stunt or seeker-friendly church strategies gone to the dogs,...
Jan 24, 2014 | Culture & Society
I write bold columns about agendas that oppose God's will each and every week through my Watchman on the Wall column. My passion is to see God’s truth reign in the land, witness the captives—whatever they are in bondage to—set free, and see...
Jan 17, 2014 | Culture & Society
What does discipleship look like and hoe do we take people deeper. Breaking away form what we think we need and embracing what God really has for us. Is Jezebel perverting Christianity with its teachings? I caught up with Pastor Greg Young of Chosen Generation Radio...
Jan 17, 2014 | Culture & Society
I don’t listen to secular radio. I haven’t listened to secular radio on purpose since I was saved and tossed thousands of dollars of secular CDs in the garbage. As dark as secular music was back then, mainstream music has taken on a whole new level of...
Jan 10, 2014 | Culture & Society
As we enter into 2014 what can we do to improve our spiritual health and have a greater impact in our world? Scripture says that the field is ripe for the harvest but the workers are few. A recent Gallup Poll says that 75% of americans believe that American society...
Jan 10, 2014 | Culture & Society
While many in America are watching The Bachelor this winter, a Christian version is set to hit the airwaves this summer with a twist on the popular reality TV show. It Takes a Church, with 2014 Grammy Award nominee Natalie Grant, is set to debut on GSN midyear. GSN is...
Dec 27, 2013 | Culture & Society
People are still talking about the Duck Dynasty-A&E flap. Personally, I was surprised that A&E suspended Roberton. I thought Duck Dynasty drove too much revenue for the cable network to bow to political correctness. I was wrong. On last week's Dose of the Ghost...
Dec 19, 2013 | Culture & Society
Mark Driscoll the popular Mars Hill Pastor has been accused of plagiarism. How do we address these kind of inconsistencies in the Christian world? Is there any truth to an attempted character assassination because of his stand on Pastor John McArthur, who is a friend...
Dec 19, 2013 | Culture & Society
Pastors may not be perfect, but we expect to be able to trust them. We expect them to tell us the truth in love—even when it’s not what we want to hear. We expect them to live honest lives. Are we expecting too much? Have a handful of high-profile pastor...
Dec 13, 2013 | Culture & Society
On last week’s Dose of the Ghost segment on Chosen Generation radio, I sat down with Pastor Greg Young to discuss the recent debate over issuing a resolution to support same sex marriage in Texas. Also have you ever heard of the Most Fabulous Story Ever Told?...
Dec 5, 2013 | Culture & Society
As news editor for Charisma magazine, I read hundreds of stories every week about the good, bad and ugly. Unfortunately, most of it is bad and ugly. Through this lens, it’s clear that anti-Christ agendas and false gospels are rising. In the world, we see the...
Nov 22, 2013 | Culture & Society
A recent court decision in the UK states that a Christian commercial that was to air on a Christian Radio station that calls for fairness in the public discourse was to political and could not be aired. On Chosen Generation Radio today with Pastor Greg Young we...
Nov 21, 2013 | Culture & Society
When I was on Fox News Radio with Alan Colmes, he asked me if I thought homosexuals were actively recruiting people to become gay. Of course, that’s a ridiculous assertion, and I told him, “Absolutely not.” But that doesn’t mean there’s...
Nov 21, 2013 | Culture & Society
Anything the gay agenda can do, the atheists can do better. That seems to be the unbeliever’s mantra for 2013 as godless radicals rise up not only for recognition—and not only to tear down all things Christian in the public square—but to actually woo...
Nov 8, 2013 | Culture & Society
With mainline religious congregations dwindling across America, a smattering of churches are trying to attract new members by creating a different sort of Christian community, according to an NPR report this week. They are coming together to sip craft beer....
Nov 1, 2013 | Culture & Society
Fewer Pentecostals are speaking tongues. Fewer Baptists are getting baptized. Wait, what? Yes, you read that correctly. But what are we to make of the decline of baptisms in water and in the Spirit? I’ll get to that in a minute. A couple of months ago, I wrote a...
Oct 24, 2013 | Culture & Society
Is the church dying? Apparently, that depends on whom you ask. Indeed, the life or death of the church of Jesus Christ that was founded more than 2,000 years ago on the Day of Pentecost is a topic of debate in some evangelical circles. Ed Stetzer, the president of...
Oct 24, 2013 | Culture & Society
For all the debate about whether women can be pastors or teach men—or even speak in church—there’s a bigger issue at hand this week as news of a female Baptist pastor getting married to a female quasi-Catholic bishop drives headlines across the...
Oct 18, 2013 | Culture & Society
In between a sip or two of beer, a group of men delved deeper into the Bible at a bar off Route 67 in Oxford, Conn. last week, the Associated Press reports. The story goes on to paint a picture of men digging deeper for a better understanding of themselves and a...
Oct 11, 2013 | Culture & Society
As the mother of a teenaged daughter, news that nearly 10 percent of adolescents report perpetrating some form of sexual violence in their lifetime disturbs me. The sexual violence list includes coercive sex, forced sexual contact—and even rape. Can we blame the...
Oct 4, 2013 | Culture & Society, Jennifer LeClaire Exclusives
A few months ago, former Charisma editor J. Lee Grady penned a powerful column headlined “Why I Don’t Use the F-Word.” Of course, he was talking about the F-bomb, the nasty four-letter word that’s worked its way into mainstream conversation...
Sep 27, 2013 | Culture & Society
About two years ago, a casting producer working with a major television studio contacted me about starring in a new reality TV series about women of faith. The producers wanted to follow me around at work, at church and at home. I prayed about it and decided it...
Sep 13, 2013 | Culture & Society
About a month ago, I asked a pointed question: “Why Do So Many ‘Born-Again, Spirit-Filled’ Women Show Off Cleavage in Church?” It set off a firestorm of debate but sparked a number of other stories and sermons on the issue. I got emails from...
Sep 13, 2013 | Culture & Society
Just as the chatter about Miley Cyrus’ soft-porn twerking at MTV’s Video Music Awards died down, the former child star has left jaws hanging near the ground once again by stripping naked, straddling a wrecking ball and suggestively licking a sledgehammer...
Sep 6, 2013 | Culture & Society
There’s a lot of talk today about the “triumphant return” of Jon Stewart to The Daily Show’s anchor desk after a summer hiatus. Stewart had been off in the Middle East directing and producing a movie. During that time, he missed out on poking...