The Real Tragedy

Today, the children and staff of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT return to class.  It’s been three weeks and I still feel uncomfortable saying the name of the school because of the unspeakable crimes committed there.  I stopped watching news coverage when the first funerals began.  I just didn’t want anymore details.  I didn’t want […]

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A freedom that does not enslave us

“Whom the Son sets free is free indeed.” ~ John 8.36 Issued on January 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln, today marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.  But, despite what was written on these sheets of paper and proclaimed from the mouth of one of this nation’s political leaders and […]

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My Life’s Resolution

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.” ~ Leo Tolstoy “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming […]

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Race Is Not God’s Gift To The World

Matthew 1.18-25 shares with its readers the birth narrative of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. In these few verses, one can find conflict, suspense, romance, and even a divine visitation. What began as a cause for concern became a source of celebration.  The birth of Jesus Christ, his entry into the world remains the […]

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Black America: Reaping harvest of racial idolatry?

Political activist, Alan Keyes asks of African Americans who are Christians if their “conscience will sleep forever” in an article posted by WND.  Keyes questions the Christian conviction of those who support President Barack Obama in spite of his support of abortion and homosexuality, things that the Bible opposes.  Keyes believes that this is evidence of […]

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