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1. How You Can Move From Outrage to Action—And Why

I've been inundated with outrage this past week. Righteous indignation filling my social media feeds. Outrage expressed in face-to-face conversations. And outrage at the outrage of others. So what? So wha ...

Created on 31 January 2019

2. How Martin Luther King Jr. Still Speaks to Us Today

... n they behave like unbelievers. We criticize those who are different from us. Different social backgrounds from ours. Different ethnic heritages. And especially, different sins. We've concluded that if someo ...

Created on 20 January 2019

3. Where Millennials Have It Right About Social Justice ...

We live in a world which increasingly focuses on social justice. We hear about it on television. It has become a regular topic of politicians. It has even become a major fixture on sports and sporting ...

Created on 22 August 2018

4. 3 Reasons Why So Many Millennials Love Socialism ...

It's true that socialist Bernie Sanders is anything but a Millennial. And it's true that socialism was popular long before any Millennials were born. But there's no doubt that socialism is becoming increasin ...

Created on 03 August 2018

5. AG Elects First Woman to Top Board in 100-Plus Year History

The top U.S. board of the Assemblies of God has unanimously elected its first woman general secretary in the Pentecostal denomination's more than 100-year history. The Rev. Donna L. Barrett, the lead pastor ...

Created on 24 April 2018

6. Woman Receives 5 Major Wake-Up Calls the Church Is Largely Ignoring

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." This call to action by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. rang true when I was visiting the largest refugee camp the world has ever known, with an estimated ...

Created on 13 April 2018

7. Why Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death Couldn't Kill His Legacy

Today we remember the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. I'm old enough to remember when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Since then, I've become friends with his youngest daughter, ...

Created on 04 April 2018

8. A Spirit-Led Response to the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago today, in the evening, while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. The night before he was killed, Dr. King spoke at a church in Memphis. ...

Created on 04 April 2018

9. Special Report: This Dire Crisis Demands Christlike Response

Best known for its work helping the underprivileged in poverty-stricken parts of the world, GFA (Gospel for Asia, gfa.org) is spotlighting a universal crisis that unites all nations: the need for good ...

Created on 23 March 2018

10. Powers and Principalities: The Truth About Martin Luther King Jr.'s Fiery Pentecostal Roots—Part 1

... o recognize the power of the black church for organizing resistance to white supremacy, a dynamic that none of the secular intelligentsia had foreseen. None of the social scientists, black or white—W. E. ...

Created on 22 March 2018

11. The Surprising Link Between African-Americans and the Great Awakening

The revivalists of the Great Awakening found an especially receptive audience among the black population of Colonial America. Blacks, both slave and free, resonated with the message of a "new birth" and ...

Created on 05 February 2018

12. What Martin Luther King Jr. Realized About the Constitution That Most Americans Don't

In his fight for racial equality in America, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. found an ally in America's founding documents, and they became foundational to his cause. This is because America's founding documents ...

Created on 12 January 2018

13. The Charlottesville Riots May Fulfill Revelation 6—Here's What You Should Do

Like you, my spirit is grieved with the evil that took place this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, in regards to the demonic demonstration of hate and violence of the white supremacists, neo-Nazis ...

Created on 14 August 2017

14. 7 Important Arguments You Won't Hear on Earth Day

This week, on April 22, we recognize "Earth Day." You will hear a lot of talk about climate change and how its horrible consequences must be avoided at all costs. Here are some things you won't hear: 1. ...

Created on 19 April 2017

15. The Missing Factor in Many Christians' Good Deeds

As Christians, we are called to do good works—to pursue justice. Many of us have heard the Golden Rule, to "do unto others as you'd have done to you." Scripture teaches us to treat others the way we want ...

Created on 31 March 2017

16. Women's Day: How Marilyn Hickey's Daughter Is Continuing Moses' Legacy

With a burden for babies and young children in need, Sarah Bowling founded Saving Moses, a nonprofit focused on some of most desperate places in the world, in 2011. Bowling—perhaps best known as co-host ...

Created on 08 March 2017

17. Satan's Vicious Attack on Women in This Age

...  we getting entangled in more and more causes–political and social, local and national–because we are looking for ... what? For purpose? Meaning? Fulfillment?  Satisfaction? Happiness? Whatever it is s ...

Created on 22 February 2017

18. What the Bible Has to Say About Our Nation's Outrage

... nions, we cannot dismiss these relevant truths—especially in our day, when it is so easy to spout off on social media. I know I've been tempted and guilty too often. Obey Scripture Supremely: One cavea ...

Created on 21 February 2017

19. Why Clinging to Psalm 146:3 Is America's Only Hope

In recent hours, the nation has witnessed the inauguration of our 45th president. Like all presidential inaugurations, the event should have elicited respect, new anticipation and a fresh feeling of patriotism. ...

Created on 31 January 2017

20. One Thing That Could Effectively End Abortion in America

Planned Parenthood is to America what the Nazi gas chambers were to Hitler's Germany. (It's not women being forced into the death chambers—it's babies). Hitler dehumanized the Jews and convinced the Germans ...

Created on 01 February 2017