Coming through this Easter season, I strongly encouraged our congregation to give sacrificially to the Annie Armstrong Offering for North American Missions. While a few of our church leaders know my reservations about the direction and vision of the new NAMB, I did not express that concern with the members at large. With new changes announced at…
Obama’s High Tech Enemies List & Nixon’s Ghost
If I believed in ghosts (which I don’t — demons and spirits are another matter altogether), I could almost see the ghost of Richard Milhaus Nixon walking on the grounds of the White House. That America’s 37th President is haunting or otherwise influencing the current President’s recent behavior toward the press could explain a whole lot. It would probably…
Interfaith Alliance, Faith Shared & Sinking Sand
If you are liberal Baptist Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, “a religious freedom organization that seeks to unite diverse faith voices against extremism,” then your answer is a resounding, “YES!” If you believe that the Bible is the infallible, “God-breathed” Word, then your answer would have to be a clear “NO!” Depending on…
French Politicians, Pigs & American Justice
After spending three nights at Riker’s Island Prison in New York for allegedly raping a 32 year-old maid in his $3,000 a night hotel room, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the now former head of the International Monetary Fund, has been freed on $6 million bail. While awaiting trial, he will live in an Upper East Side condo where apartments…
Israel: With Friends Like Obama, Who Needs Enemies?
This past Sunday, while preaching on the name of Jesus — perhaps the most well-known resident of Israel (past, present, or future) — I asked those in the congregation to call out the first thing that they associated with the name of the person I would mention. When I mentioned Osama bin Laden, several yelled out “dead.” The…