5 faith stories worth your time on Friday
Dred Scott Freedom Award; Top stories from 2015; Trump questions Cruz's Cuban Evangelical roots
Dred Scott Freedom Award; Top stories from 2015; Trump questions Cruz's Cuban Evangelical roots
SharesJonathan Edwards wrote the resolutions when he was completing his formal education and transitioning into his vocational life as a pastor. It is stunning to consider that he began this list at the age of just 19. He completed them in his early twenties and returned to them on a weekly basis as part of his regular prayer and devotional life. The 70 Resolutions display a very profound view of one's life lived intentionally and purposefully for the glory of God, and all seventy consider life from the perspective of eternity. Some are sweet. Others are jarring.
SharesGotta bucket list? There is no time like resolution time to create one. Whether you are an experienced wanderer or an experienced dreamer, you are likely to have a special place or two you do not want to miss tucked within the pages of your life's "to-do" list.
SharesWill 2016 be the last year of liberty? If the radical left has its way, it will be. If any of the Democrats are elected president in 2016, it will be.
SharesEntering into the new year brings excitement, reflection and hopes that are often embodied by our New Year's resolutions.
SharesTanner clothes Mary in simple peasant fabric and places her in a room with rough-hewn stone flooring and ugly, cracked plaster. Even the vase in the background is of the common ceramic variety with no adornment. While other artists depict Gabriel coming to Mary while she is reading, thus showing her industry, intellect, and piety, Tanner's Mary seems to have been doing nothing--just sitting on her bed. Look closely and you will even see her bare toes. How shocking!
SharesOur duty to spread the gospel, however, does not mean that we have a Christian duty to allow them to come to our homes and take our daughters as slaves, or for them to enter our churches and prematurely dispatch to Heaven our brothers and sisters or their children. In that situation, I for one -- while not called to hate or to avenge -- am called to defend. And to defend violently, if necessary.
SharesThey will never surrender, and they will never stop. Their only vision of victory is the world domination by their brand of Islam. (This is why the release of the Guantanamo prisoners is so absurd.)
SharesNot having decided who I am going to vote for in the 2016 presidential election, I am not-the-less amused at the Left's (and the Republican establishment's) attempts to explain Donald Trump's success on the campaign trail. Pundit after pundit has opined on the reason Mr. Trump is, in some polls, over 40 percent of the Republican primary electorate.
SharesThese two shows are classic Christmas radio plays from 1950.
SharesTim Constantine wishes a very Merry Christmas from The Capitol Hill Show.
SharesMy sons saw "Star Wars" on Tuesday and they loved it. They wanted to tell me about the whole movie (I haven't seen it yet), but they remembered my rule I instituted before they went: If you tell me spoilers, I'm kicking you out of the house. Just kidding.
SharesSenator Ted Cruz sits down with Tim Constantine and says if elected, he'll bring a Cuban tradition to the White House on Christmas Eve.
SharesA detoured life. That is how military caregiver Allyson Bowers describes her life caring for her husband, Benjamin Bowers, a medically retired Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran. Along with caring for her husband, Allyson also holds a master's degree in human services with an emphasis on military resilience from Liberty University and is a Fellow Emeritus with the Elizabeth Dole Foundation.
SharesWheaton College, Jeb Bush's faith, Thom Rainer on trends in church life, Tom Gjelton on secularism.
SharesIn the Democratic presidential debate on Saturday night -- which was, by design, almost unwatched, even by President Obama himself -- Hillary Clinton gave republicans three unexpected but delightful Christmas gifts.
SharesWhen confronted with racial injustice, Rosa Parks said "no." When confronted with tyranny, Winston Churchill said "no." When confronted with colonial arrogance, Mahatma Gandhi said "no."
SharesThe First Amendment has taken a brutal beating during President Obama's time in office, despite the fact that the familiar text "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech" is one of our most cherished rights as American citizens.
SharesRusty got in to a lot of trouble on social media for his negative Star Wars review, here's why he didn't love the movie. Also, in 1943 radio remembers the birth of Christ with A Child Is Born.
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