Weekend, August 24, 2024 　　How God Wants Us to Love Him 　　And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. (Deuteronomy 6:5 NLT) 　　When experts in the Mosaic Law asked Jesus a question to try to trap Him, Jesus replied, “ ‘You must love the Lord your God with all...

　　A series of policies recently enacted by the Nicaraguan government will significantly impact the activities of churches and ministries operating in the country. 　　Viewed by religious freedom specialists as an effort to increase the states control over religious institutions, the measures impose taxes on tithes and offerings while mandating that organizations create formal partnerships with the Nicaraguan government to carry...

　　In November 1983, the ABC network premiered The Day After, a film dramatizing World War III from the vantage point of ordinary Americans in and around Lawrence, Kansas. The film provided a plausible flashpoint for conflict: the Warsaw Pact begins a military buildup followed by a blockade of Berlin. When the deadline for an ultimatum passes the next day, NATO...

　　In the last two decades, over 400,000 South Africans have left their country to set up a new life abroad in the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. They are mostly highly educated and highly skilled young families looking to escape crime and economic decay at home. 　　This exodus has prompted authorities to warn that South Africas...

　　The Key to Fighting Temptation 　　By: Betsy St. Amant Haddox 　　And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.” -Luke 22:40 (ESV) 　　No Christian is free from temptation. Remember, temptation itself isn’t a sin, as Jesus was tempted (Matthew 4). Rather, the sin lies in whether we give in to...

　　About forty years ago, Brazils elected president was incapacitated, and his vice-president took office. With a big mustache and painted hair “dark as a crow’s wing,” he looked the part of a populist Latin American politician out of the Comedy Central cast. Unfortunately, there were other less colorful but equally pathetic features of his time in office. 　　In 1986, the...

　　About forty years ago, Brazils elected president was incapacitated, and his vice-president took office. With a big mustache and painted hair “dark as a crow’s wing,” he looked the part of a populist Latin American politician out of the Comedy Central cast. Unfortunately, there were other less colorful but equally pathetic features of his time in office. 　　In 1986, the...

　　At its inception in seventeenth-century England, our liberal order held that law must be humble. Brutal political conflict had proved that we are incapable of knowing basic moral and social truths. With fundamental disagreement inescapable, law must defer to skepticism and relativism. Humble law would provide just enough stability to leave people free to safely craft their own truths, identities,...

　　Across the West, extremes on the political spectrum are surging. In last June’s election in France, the far-right National Front and the leftist Popular National Front secured 322 of the 577 seats and a commanding majority of the popular vote between them. While a minority of the Popular National Front are traditional French social democrats, the coalition was dominated by...

　　3 Tips for Enjoying Your Wedding Anniversary 　　By Lynette Kittle 　　Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil”- Proverbs15:16 　　Anniversaries can be hard. Deciding what to do, where to go, how much time to take, and how much money to spend have the potential to cause strife and division at a time where...

　　The worlds 280 million immigrants have greater shares of Christians, Muslims, and Jews than the general population, according to a new Pew Research Center study released Monday. 　　You see migrants coming to places like the US, Canada, different places through Western Europe, and being more religiousand sometimes more Christian in particularthan the native-born people in those countries, said Stephanie Kramer,...

　　Finding Comfort in an Uncertain World 　　By Laura Bailey 　　“Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.” – Ephesians 6: 6 NIV 　　Political tension has been high in the last few years, but recent events seem to indicate that people across...