The day after their inauguration, President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, along with their families, other elected officials, and numerous clergy, attended a National Prayer Service at Washington’s National Cathedral. This Inaugural Prayer Service dates back to FDR’s first inauguration in 1933. It has a long and established tradition which, up until this…
New Orleans, Radical Islam, & the Evil Within
On a night of celebration and revelry in the French Quarter of New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, terror struck again. Not with a plane or a pressure cooker, but with an American-made Ford F-150 pick-up truck, driven by a United States Army veteran, a United States citizen, and a resident of the great state…
A Little Bit of Dixie on New Year’s Day
You can take Dixie out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of Dixie, at least when it comes to food, particularly on New Year’s Day. And, when I say Dixie, I don’t just mean the song, the cups, or the Chicks. I mean me. Yep. My first name is Dixie, and…
2024 in Review: The Goodness of God
“For the LORDÂ is good, and his faithful love endures forever; his faithfulness, through all generations.” Psalm 100:5 (CSB) God is Good! On the last day of 2024, as I look back on the year that was, one thought keeps coming to the top of my mind: God is Good, all the time. All the time,…
Andy Stanley’s Crash Landing on Homosexuality
(This post, originally published on April 26, 2012, was updated on September 21, 2023.) The plane has crashed! Eleven years after I wrote “Andy Stanley’s Soft Landing on Homosexuality?” (see the original post below), critiquing a sermon in which the popular Atlanta-area pastor appeared to give tacit approval to an openly gay lifestyle as compatible…