Typically, Christians do not publicly reveal their personal sacrifice during Lent, much less convene a press conference at the National Press Club. But for professional activists like Wallis, what's the point of fasting without gaining political points and publicity? Wallis has called on his left-leaning church followers to "fast, pray and act" while forming a "circle of protection" around their favorite Welfare State programs.
Read moreThe only way marriage could valiantly defend itself was by not yielding and insisting that it remain a permanent union of exclusion admitting no others. Brave husbands and wives have resisted the free love onslaught of the sexual revolution and, although battered by the cultural war, the sacred standard of marriage still waves from the citadel despite everything.
Now it seems those who were so anti-marriage have become pro-marriage.
Read moreTwo entirely different things cannot be considered the same thing.
2. It Violates Natural Law
Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings. It is a relationship rooted in human nature and thus governed by natural law.
Read moreThe complaint in Open Gate Western Heritage Church v. Calcasieu Parish School Board and motion for a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the school board's alleged "worship" exclusion are available at www.rutherford.org.
Read more"You're at a party and you're tapped on the shoulder and told you have to leave. The party is still going on but it's going on without you. And even people who swear to remember you are not really going to do so."
Nevertheless, for Christopher - and I suspect for many - the prospect of heaven sounds even more frightening.
Read moreRioters say they are seeking to avenge the March 20 burning of a Quran by Dove World Outreach Center, a small nondenominational church in Gainesville, Fla., that also made headlines last year when its pastor planned, but later cancelled, an "International Burn a Koran Day" for Sept. 11. With no more than 30 people in attendance March 20, the church put the Quran on "trial," found it guilty, and then watched as pastor Wayne Sapp burned a copy of it.
Read moreThough 98 percent of Planned Parenthood's services to pregnant women are abortion, Planned Parenthood and its political allies have sworn up and down that taxpayer dollars do not to pay for abortion. But of course they do. Planned Parenthood gets one-third of its entire budget from taxpayer funding and performed more than 650,000 abortions between 2008 and 2009. An abortion is expensive.
Read moreA few examples of recent intolerance for Christianity:
* The Supreme court determining to exclude anyone who prays in Jesus name from a rotation of officials who open city business meetings
* The removal of US military Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, over the issue of praying in Jesus Name
* UCLA's prohibiting a graduating student from thanking her "Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" in her graduation speech
Read moreThe first involves an evangelical Christian group in Australia who has brought over a former homosexual from the US to share his amazing story. He was scheduled to speak at a Queensland Catholic school, but when they learned more fully about him being a former homosexual, they gave him the flick.
Read moreAt the appropriate time, and with my best smile, I raised my hand and said something like this: "I appreciate the funding that allows us to survey our churches, and I think it is helpful to use similar questions and metrics for better research. But I am not here to form a partnership to help one another. I want to help the churches I serve, and part of the reason they exist is to convert some of you."
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