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 [...]
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Aimee Copeland’s Grateful Family Teaches Us a Lesson!
Posted: May 19, 2012 in NewsTags: Aimee Copeland, flesh eating bacteria, health, little tallapoosa river, medicine, mr copeland, remarkable resilience
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Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus by Jeff Bethke
Posted: April 12, 2012 in NewsTags: Jeff Bethke, Kevin DeYoung, Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus
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) [...]
Forget the Church and Follow Jesus?
Posted: April 12, 2012 in NewsTags: Andrew Sullivan, Francis of Assisi, Rich Warren
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 [...]
Has Obama Declared War on Religion?
Posted: February 12, 2012 in NewsTags: abortion drugs, forms of contraception, Kathleen Sebelius, Marco Rubio, Obama's war on religion, preventive health services, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
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 [...]
Should You Vote for Mormon Mitt Romney?
Posted: January 10, 2012 in NewsTags: Bob McCarty, Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther, Mike Duran, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, mormon presidential candidate, Obama, Rev. Robert Jeffress, Rick Perry
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 [...]
Glenn Beck and Co-belligerency
Posted: December 23, 2011 in NewsTags: Albert Mohler, Billy Graham, Dr. Richard Land, Francis Schaeffer, Glenn Beck, James Dobson, Ross Douthai, The New York Times
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 [...]
Wall Street Protesters
Posted: October 7, 2011 in NewsTags: Ann Coulter, Bill Maher, Herman Cain, Michael Moore, Mitt Romney, Obama, Tea Party, Van Jones, Wall Street Protesters, Zuccotti Park
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. [...]
Did President Obama Violate the 5th Amendment With The Killing of al-Awlaki?
Posted: October 1, 2011 in NewsTags: 5th Amendment, ACLU, Anwar Al-Awalki, Bush Doctrine, Guantanamo Bay, President Obama, Ron Paul
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 [...]
Stand Up for Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani
Posted: September 30, 2011 in NewsTags: and iranian law., Christian Solidarity Worldwide, islamic iran, leader time, Pastor Yousef Nadarkani, prayer points, religious rulings
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 [...]
