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Sometimes the topic of a blog seems like something out of left field.  You find yourself reading what has been written simply because you haven’t gotten over the shock that the blogger is actually addressing an unexpected topic.  You find yourself thinking, “Why has no one blogged about this before?” This isn’t one of those [...]

Most of the thoughts in this blog are originals from your pastors – “out of our minds.”  This week I offer you a guest blogger, Sherry Surratt, CEO and President, MOPS International.  For a couple of reasons.  MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) is a CCC ministry I’m proud of, so this piece doubles worthwhile food for [...]

Sometimes we get the impression from Mathew 5:39 that we are to be passive to aggression. In this passage Jesus said: “But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also” (Mathew 5:39). But his passage is teaching that we [...]

I was 21 when I first heard the words “Zion Passion Play.”  They emitted from the mouth of a girl I was just getting to know.  As we strolled through the streets of Chicago, she went on and on and on about this play as though it were the single greatest theatrical production in the [...]

Some of us could have predicted that same-sex marriage would eventually become a hot issue, but I, for one, never dreamed that it would become the cause célèbre seemingly overnight.  The President, the Clintons, Rob Portman, and even a few self-confessed evangelical Christians like former megachurch pastor Rob Bell have come out in support for [...]

When I was in Bible school, one of the things that we learned in theology class was that the reason we can’t interpret the Bible correctly is our fallen nature. The fall has affected our intellect and our reasoning. While I understand that we are fallen, and I agree that somehow we don’t think well, [...]

Here I sit with two of my favorite things; bright warm sunlight and dark hot coffee. It still seems odd to call coffee “a favorite thing.” For forty-six of my almost forty-seven years I liked only one thing about coffee … the smell. Earthlings breathe 78.09% Nitrogen, 20.95% Oxygen and a .93% cocktail of argon [...]

The recent shootings in Newtown, CT and Aurora, CO, as well as other highly publicized murders using guns have brought the issue of firearm ownership front and center in the public square.  There are many people and politicians that feel there is no place in civil society for firearms, though some will acknowledge the value [...]

In what some are calling a triumph of political correctness over common sense, the Pentagon has lifted its ban on women in combat and direct combat units. There are numerous arguments against this move: the differences between men and women in physical stamina; the risks of injury, emotional stress, sexual assault, pregnancy, and adultery; family [...]

This piece by Trevin Wax, appeared on the Gospel Coalition blog.  I share it with you in conjunction with Sanctity of Life Sunday, January 20, 2013. Debate moderators and reporters love to ask pro-life candidates hard questions about abortion. Curiously, they don’t do the same for pro-choice candidates. Here are 10 questions you never hear a [...]