Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Aimee Copeland, a 24-year-old Georgia graduate student contracted a flesh eating infection May 1 as she and friends zip-lined along the Little Tallapoosa River near Carrollton. When the homemade zip line broke, she fell to the water and rocks below, cutting her calf on a stone. Doctors believe the bacteria, Aeromonas hydrophlia, entered her body [...]

Bethke says he hates religion (in verse 7) but loves the church and loves the Bible (in verse 5). More accurately, Jeff means he hates false religion because James 1:26-27 describes pure religion as helping the poor and being set apart for God. Bethke identifies problems even in the church (such as hypocrisy in verse 4) [...]

Andrew Sullivan of Newsweek says Christianity is in crisis and that believers should Forget the Church, Follow Jesus. He cites Thomas Jefferson’s cutting out of the Bible all the miracles of Jesus as a great example to follow. Jefferson’s rejection of the supernatural is our example? Newsweek does an annual critique of Christianity at Easter [...]

On January 20, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of HHS made an announcement that ordered Faith-based institutions to provide health insurance coverage not only for contraceptives but also morning after chemical inducing abortion drugs: “Today the department is announcing that the final rule on preventive health services will ensure that women with health insurance coverage will have [...]

Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, unmasked the deep rift among evangelicals about the possibility of having to vote for a Mormon presidential candidate when he introduced Rick Perry at the Values Voters Summit. Some wrongly say Jeffress played the Mormon card with this statement: “In a few months, when the [...]

Were the evangelicals who stood by Glenn Beck’s side in the Restoring America Rally practicing what Francis Schaeffer called co-belligerency? Dr. Richard Land, the president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, after the rally said to Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, “That was extraordinary. I’ve never heard a [...]

Tebow’s pastor believes God is now on the side of the Broncos because of Tebow’s PDFs (public displays of faith)! Wayne Hanson of the Summit Church in Colorado is Tebow’s pastor who says that the Broncos are now 7-1 because Tebow is taking the snaps. Pastor Hanson told TMZ: “It’s not luck. Luck isn’t winning [...]

This protest was started by a Canadian, environmentalist, activist group called Adbusters. They are protesting the influence of corporations in the government. They are advocating raising taxes on the rich and on corporations whom they say are not paying their fair share. Business owners are already now paying 40 percent of their income in taxes. [...]

Not every one, including some conservatives, agrees with the President Obama policy that led to the killing of the first American citizen who also was an al-Qaeda terrorist: Anwar al-Awlaki. Awlaki has been linked to the Fort Hood massacre through 20 emails with Major Nidal Hasan who killed 13 soldiers. Awaki said Muslims should serve [...]

Christian Solidarity Worldwide is calling for our support for this Christian pastor who refuses to recant his Christian faith in Islamic Iran. Here is the CSW’s plea that I have responded to and to which I hope you will also respond: Pastor Nadarkhani is currently on trial in Rasht. He has appeared in court three [...]