Category: Commentary

Where is the Love in the Body of Christ »

Where is the Love in the Body of Christ by Annette Sifford

It seems that lately every church and every ministry is scrambling to witness to third world countries, prison inmates or drug addicts and prostitutes. This is our duty as followers of Christ. To lead the lost to the savior [...]

How a Radical Jihadist Led me to Jesus – Part 2 »

How a Radical Jihadist Led me to Jesus
by Aaron D. Taylor
(excerpted from Alone With A Jihadist)
For weeks I walked around in a daze. I couldn’t get the thought out of my mind that if Khalid and his repeated threats to fight with all means necessary until U.S. troops are removed from Muslim lands, [...]

How a Radical Jihadist Led me to Jesus – Part 1 »

  How a Radical Jihadist Led me to Jesus by Aaron D. Taylor
(excerpted from Alone With A Jihadist)
“What have I gotten myself into this time?” were the words flashing through my mind as I sat across the table from Stephen Marshall, the director of a feature length documentary film (currently [...]

The Glue of Society »

The Glue of Society by Johann Christoph Arnold
Thank God for mothers! Mother’s Day is an opportunity to make life special for them. It is a chance to celebrate family. I thank God for my mother, who died some years ago. There is one thing I regret: for too many years I [...]

Chasing Butterflies With President Obama »

Chasing Butterflies With President Obama By Ed Gungor
BARACK OBAMA, the 44th president of the United States heralds the promise of a new beginning for America. With reckless abandon President Obama is telling us that this is a new day; that a new dawn of positive change is upon us no [...]

Is Israel Always Right? »

Is Israel Always Right? by Ed Gungor

For some time Hamas, backed by Hezbollah and Iran, has been randomly firing rockets at civilians in Israel (thousands of them since 2005). Retaliatory strikes from Israel have been tricky because Hamas has turned Gaza into a complex maze of tunnels where Hamas militants [...]

A Christian Response to President-Elect Obama »

A Christian Response to President-Elect Obama by Ed Gungor
Well, we have a new President-elect and the bloggers are having a field day! Both celebration and dread are being communicated with great flair. Personally, I’m hopeful—not because I believe that any political party is able to fix what ails us, but because [...]

Can We Count On You? »

Can We Count On You?
by Tyora Moody
The other night when I picked up the phone, I immediately felt a sense of annoyance. Why? The caller was friendly enough and he wasn’t selling anything. At least not a product. He called specifically to ask if he could count on my vote for a certain presidential candidate. [...]

Why Celebrate Christmas? »

Why Celebrate Christmas?
By Jerry D. Ousley
I received an email this week from someone who was criticizing because I had written a couple of articles about Christmas. He said that there was no place in the Bible that taught the celebration of this holiday and that most practices of Christmastime originated from pagan rituals. Well, [...]