Jul 13, 2019 | Culture & Society
There’s nothing wrong with using dating apps if you’re single and looking for a life partner, but they can be dangerous especially if you’re prone to over using your smartphone! App dating can become so addictive that you sit staring into a small screen for hours at a...
Jul 8, 2019 | Social Justice
Richard Beck’s continuing series on his journey to becoming “post-progressive” includes a critique of progressive Christianity’s priority of political activism and social justice. Beck knows that there is a great deal of support in the biblical story for this...
Jun 25, 2019 | News & Culture
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL—Prophetic psalmist Dionne Jermeia has joined the Awakening House of Prayer global movement as worship pastor. Awakening House of Prayer is a church, house of prayer and international apostolic-prophetic hub headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL with...
Jun 23, 2019 | Culture & Society
Abigail Arias is a 6-year-old girl from Texas who is terminally ill with cancer. She has always had a desire to become a police officer. Her dream came true when she was officially sworn in as an honorary officer in Freeport, Texas. Abigail’s battle with cancer...
Jun 15, 2019 | Culture & Society
Like their sisters and brothers in the Southern Baptist Convention this week, Cooperative Baptists will gather in Birmingham next week. We will wrestle with many of the questions that our SBC friends are as we seek to be faithful to the call of Christ in a changing...
Jun 10, 2019 | Social Justice
Mere charity is a band-aid that cannot bring liberation. Neither can ardent calls for justice from those who live separately from the oppressed. Both fall short of true compassion. Paulo Freire wrote: “The generosity of the oppressors is nourished by an unjust order,...
May 11, 2019 | News & Culture
www.patheos.com We grieve for her young family, and we feel the gap she leaves online. We grieve, but we do so with hope. As a believer in the physical resurrection of Jesus I am confident that she is with Jesus right now, awaiting his return. Perhaps my favourite...
May 8, 2019 | World Events
As we followed along with the situation in Sri Lanka and while continuing to pray for our fellow believers suffering such great loss, I reached out to a friend from the area to hear what’s going on from his perspective. Leslie Keegel and I have spoken at several...
May 8, 2019 | News & Culture
Paula White, a popular televangelist and spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, has officially installed her son, Brad Knight, and his wife as the new senior pastors of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida, which has been renamed City of Destiny....
Apr 30, 2019 | Social Justice
A pastor I know recently told me that he was criticized for being “too political.” He has heard such an indictment throughout his ministry, he said. Today he leads a major ministry in the U.S. battling daily for the rights of pastors to speak so that...
Apr 26, 2019 | Culture & Society
Lecrae is one of those people who struggled with self-worth, never having a sense of belongingness. According to CBN, when he was a child, his father abandoned him. His dad chose drugs and friends instead of him. Lecrae didn’t feel he really fitted in until he...
Apr 22, 2019 | Culture & Society
Jen Ledger, the drummer of Christian Rock Band, Skillet, shares her advice on how she has personally battled with fear and anxiety. “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my...
Apr 22, 2019 | Culture & Society
Actor Joaquin Phoenix is playing Jesus in the ‘Mary Magdalene’ movie. To play the part he tried getting in character by growing long hair, meditating on a mountaintop and more. His portrayal of Jesus has been discribed as: “not the shiny, happy, super-powered Christ...
Apr 1, 2019 | Health, News & Culture
In the span of a week, two students who survived the Parkland School Shooting have tragically died in apparent suicides. The first, was Sydney Aiello on Sunday, March 17th. Next, was Calvin Desir on Saturday, March 23rd. Then, on Monday, March 25th, Jeremy Richland,...
Mar 28, 2019 | Culture & Society
God’s not sitting up in heaven waiting to swat you every time you make a mistake. His eyes are watching over you like a protective, caring Father. He wants to help you make the right decision in every situation. First Peter 3:12 says His ears are open to your prayers,...
Mar 27, 2019 | News & Culture
Last week, when a deranged lunatic gunned down dozens of Muslims at two mosques in New Zealand it suddenly became the biggest news story in the world, and rightly so. It was a major news event, and it needed to be reported. But shouldn’t mass killings of Christians...
Mar 22, 2019 | Jennifer LeClaire Exclusives, Social Justice
Mar 22, 2019 | World Events
You may have seen the shocking news coverage of a nation still submerged after Cyclone Idai. According to the BBC at least 300 people are now confirmed dead due to the “catastrophic flooding” and others are still “clinging to roofs or stuck in trees.” The network has...
Mar 20, 2019 | Culture & Society
God is constantly weaving through history more than we will ever realize. When legend, Billy Graham, walked those stages and held his famous revival meetings, there was no way to know who would be impacted at that moment, or how it would spill into the generations...
Mar 18, 2019 | Culture & Society
Luke Bryan – A judge on American Idol and ACMA winner, is well-known for his Christian faith. Singer of “Country Girl” and “All My Friends Say”interviewed with ABC Nightline (video below) and spoke about many family tragedies over the last 20 years and how he and his...
Mar 16, 2019 | Culture & Society
Hailey Baldwin Bieber revealed that her true purpose in life is to reflect Jesus in the world. On the national television show, she even declared that Jesus is a real thing for her! Now With Natalie Supermodel and television personality Hailey Baldwin Bieber, 22, was...
Mar 13, 2019 | Culture & Society
Ladies, there is a huge difference between a Christian boy and a Godly man. It’s time to stop settling for the lesser of the two. So many times I hear girls saying: “Well, he’s a Christian.” “He goes to church with me.” “He listens to Christian music.” “He went to...
Mar 12, 2019 | Culture & Society
Six Gospel artists are to have the chance to shine in a new reality program called The Gospel. The eight-part series will chronicle contestants’ progress as they compete for a national management contract with TD Jakes’ Dexterity Sounds and the Marquis Boone Music...
Mar 12, 2019 | Culture & Society
The transition wasn’t easy. Transitions usually aren’t. This however, cannot be done without God. I was completely embedded in the thick of the world. Meaning, my thoughts, my actions and my words were stemming from years of worldly imprinting. Whatever the world says...
Mar 11, 2019 | Culture & Society
Blind contestant, Shayla ‘Shayy’ Winn, brings American Idol judges to tears with her audition song ‘Rise Up’ by Andra Day. Her story brought inspiration to the judges and over 7.6 Million viewers on Facebook! Legally Blind Shayy, 17-years-old, was declared legally...
Mar 8, 2019 | Culture & Society
A new and upcoming Pure Flix feature film surrounding the controversial Planned Parenthood has been Rated “R” by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America). Some are finding this rating disturbing considering the content of the film and the reality of Planned...
Mar 7, 2019 | Culture & Society
A scary doll-like creature known as ‘Momo’ has been making news headlines and receiving much attention on social media. Supposedly she randomly appears on kid’s phones via What’s App or is embedded in children’s YouTube videos challenging them to self harm....
Mar 7, 2019 | Culture & Society
It’s so beautiful to see what the Lord will do with a mustard-seed-sized “yes”. A simple “yes” to a role that “came out of left field” opened leading Hollywood actor, James Faulkner to a whole new world. Though he considered himself to be what seemed to be a “nominal”...
Mar 6, 2019 | Culture & Society
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor, anti-Nazi dissident (he died in a German concentration camp) and author of The Cost of Discipleship poignantly stated, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak, is to speak....
Mar 5, 2019 | Culture & Society
Have you ever heard someone say “I’m just dying to be married”? Maybe that person is you. The trouble with that saying is that it sets a mindset that is desperate enough to either do anything to be married or accept anything just to say that you’re married. How often...
Mar 4, 2019 | Culture & Society
No professional athlete, or athletes in general, enjoy losing a game. But in competitive sports, there is always a winner and a loser. It’s how you react after a loss that indicates your character. Below are a list of 10 NBA players, past and present, who you may not...
Mar 4, 2019 | Culture & Society, Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
As I have diligently prayed for my President, Donald J. Trump, I have become aware of some things prophetically. First let me say that my mandate to pray for my President came in a dream within a week of him being inaugurated in January 2017. In the dream President...
