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Criticizing the President and CEO of the great humanitarian organization called Samaritan’s Purse, not to mention he’s the son of the 20th century’s most prolific evangelist, is by definition dancing with danger. But I do have a bone to pick with Brother Franklin Graham, and to be honest, it’s the same bone I’ve been picking …
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[You’re so very welcome to share your thoughts, but please read the post before rushing a response to the title.] Give us a king! We don't care what it costs. About a thousand years before Jesus, the Israelites adamantly pled for a king so they could “be like other nations and have someone to fight …
Americans are not God’s chosen people, and America is not the New Israel, or the “city on a hill.” That distinction belongs exclusively to the Body of Christ in every nation. Neither the task nor the label fits any certain national entity. We have a great country and our system of governance is as good …
As beloved as James Dobson is to the evangelical community, predominantly among those of us with white skin and grey hair (if any hair at all), having the audacity to expose a flaw of his, I might as well claim that Smokey Bear was a pyromaniac or Billy Graham smoked crack. Most of my contemporaries …
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philippians 4:8 E. Stanley Jones said: "My mind was made for his thought, my will for his purposes, my emotions for his love." To this …
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