America is not the only western nation in which leaders are feeling that a complete collapse of our social order is ahead if we do take an alternate course. A return to “Public Morality” and “Personal Responsibility” is all that will turn around Britain’s social collapse, David Cameron has said. The Tory leader has put…
DetailsWho hasn’t taken their children to McDonalds? We warm up to cultural icons and they feel like family, and then we are betrayed. In a searing response to the American Family Association, McDonald’s has accused the Christian community of “hate.” To disagree, or to hold moral position that someone’s actions are wrong, even destructive –…
DetailsAn Israeli news source reports a growing concern in that country over the negative moral influence of television. “Throw the TV out!” is an increasing cry.A program called “Moment of Truth” in which contestants are asked to reveal intimate secretes not only about their lives, but family members is just too much. Tens of thousands…
DetailsMcDonald’s has weighed in on the culture war on the side of the gay and lesbian cause. It is pledge the use of McDonald’s name, logo, and endorsement to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). That website now proudly lists McDonald’s as a “Corporate Partner.”The American Family Association says that McDonald’s status…
DetailsLifeSite News reports that the British Medical Association’s (BMA) policy-making body is now considering the removal of rights of conscience that now allow Christian doctors to refuse to commit or refer women for abortions. The proposal will be considered at the BMA’s upcoming Annual General Meeting, 7-10 July, 2008.Dr. Tony Cole, of the Catholic Medical…
DetailsWorldNet Daily has just released a report from the United Kingdom regarding the punishment of two seventh-grade boys, given detention, when the pair refused to kneel and pray to Allah during a religious studies class. “This isn’t right, it’s taking things too far,” parent Sharon Luinen told the London Daily Mail. “I understand that they…
DetailsWhen Jim Cymbala became pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the first Sunday there were 15 people in attendance and a grand total of $85.00 in the morning offering toward a mortgage payment of $232.00 plus utilities and other bills. The building was small. The walls needed painting. The windows were dingy and the floor was…
Details1. Pray at every meal – make thanksgiving a habit. And let the children pray. 2. During the course of your meal, ask your kids about their day – What happened in your world? Use their anxieties as cues for prayer. 3. Pray at bedtime. Include a bed-time Bible story. That daily habit is a…
DetailsThere are seven things must change if the Church is going to embrace the New Reformation of Prayer. This is not really a new reformation, it is completion of the transformation of the church started 500 years ago, a transformation that we have both resisted and failed to nurture: The preached Word must also become…
DetailsRecruit Prayer Partners for the Pastor. It is inadequate to say “the whole church is praying for the pastor.” Get commitments. Have the prayer partners take a day of the week or one day a month (anniversary or birthday date, 23rd, i.e.). Make a calendar of who is praying on any day. Distribute a weekly…
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