Secular fundamentalists rule against public cross

The secular fundamentalists are at it again. This time it’s suing to remove a 57-year old cross in San Diego that serves as a veterans memorial. A three-judge panel in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (in the San Francisco area) has ruled the tall, concrete cross at Mt. Soledad to be unconstitutional. The ACLU filed suit on behalf of a Jewish group of veterans to remove the symbol.

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Courageous Love

“The body of Christ needs to become more courageous with their love,” said Jean Caceres-Gonzalez, Founder and Executive Director of His House Children’s Home (HHCH), a private, non-profit, faith-based child welfare organization in Miami. Their mission: defend the weak and fatherless. Last year alone, close to one thousand neglected, abused or drug exposed children, including Haitian children and teen boys from Latin America, received care and/or were housed through HHCH’s residential services. Caceres-Gonzalez’s life objective is to stir up love and good works within the Christian community, encouraging families to open their hearts to take in hurting children. Her testimony […]

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See it

Each year, three thousand kids in South Florida are taken from their homes and placed in the foster care system. What is it like for a young child to leave the only life they’ve known–albeit a life of neglect and abuse–and start the unknown journey toward hope and healing? Walking through a crisis 4KIDS of South Florida, an organization providing hope for kids in crisis, invites the general public to an unforgettable 4-D interactive evening on Feb. 25 and 26 at the Banyan Air Service hangar in Fort Lauderdale. Participants will see, feel, and experience the true-life story of a […]

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Loving your gay neighbor as yourself

My heart pounded as the Sunday school teacher asked us to break into small groups and discuss how we might reach the homosexual community for Christ. I had often wondered if everyone knew my secret. Now I would find out for sure. In my group of four, Rachel spoke first, stating, “I don’t have any compassion for homosexuals.” My heart sank. Mark chimed in, “I don’t have any compassion for homosexuals either, and I think AIDS is God’s judgment against homosexuals.” These two seemed so smug, so arrogant. Anger burned within me and I vowed not to speak. But my […]

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That’s Not Fair!

 “That’s not fair!” It is the most disconcerting phrase heard in our house throughout the year, the greatest source of contention and offense, and the greatest challenge of my parenting to date. With four children, I have been faced with the daily responsibility of acting as judge and jury, to hear cases, to settle disputes, and to determine fairness.  When my feeble attempts to establish justice fail, I throw my hands up in the air and cry out to God for help and sanity.  “Life’s not fair” has been my consistent reply, but never satisfies the endless pursuit for fairness […]

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Christmas service in 3D

Church by the Glades (CBTG), recently named the 35th fastest growing church in America, has done it once again. Well known for their “wow factor”, CBTG is inviting over a hundred thousand people to witness the ultimate Christmas experience – 20 Christmas services in 3D. “Our December series will consist of three weeks of doctrinal teachings, each with three points. During our Christmas week services we will actually be giving out 3D glasses at all of our campuses and when visitors and members walk in , they will experience the ultimate worship experience in 3D,” shares Pastor Hughes, Lead Pastor […]

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Defense of Marriage Act finally defends marriage

The U.S. Department of Justice on Oct. 12 finally appealed two rulings by a lower court that deemed unconstitutional a portion of the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, as it applied to Massachusetts same-sex married couples. On July 8, federal District Court Judge Joseph Tauro of Massachusetts struck down in two separate opinions, Section 3 of Defense of Marriage Act – which requires that all federal benefits programs define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The Department of Justice appeal – filed with the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals – comes one week after […]

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Make a difference at the ends of the earth

Mom and Dad: I’m exhausted and I can barely string these words together in a coherent sentence but I knew that I had to try. This was a disaster of extremes – people affected, lives lost, the height of the flood waters but I gotta tell you about the real extremes- neighbors risking their lives for each other, the sheer gratitude when a mother gets food for her kids, the look on the village officials’ faces when we tell them that it’s from Jesus.I’ve been up for almost 48 hours. Before you freak out, we were putting together food packs […]

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Secretariat

In the midst of economic uncertainty, with technologies like smart phones, texting, and social media threatening to isolate us even further, comes Secretariat, a movie that director Randall Wallace prays will inspire and entertain the entire family. Known for his work as an Oscar and Golden Globe nominated writer (Braveheart), as well as producer/director (The Man in the Iron Mask, We Were Soldiers, Pearl Harbor), Randall reflected in a recent interview with me on the potential for movies to reflect God’s redemptive qualities. “That is an aspect of this movie that was really important to me – other stories have […]

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Self-worth in a world of shame and abuse

“I remembered that life: the suffocating feeling of being trapped, with no end in sight; wanting the money, needing it, but wishing there were some other legal way to get it. The constant pressure to smile, and pretend you want nothing more than to fulfill every wish and fantasy of a stranger, when all you really want to do is lie around your apartment in sweat pants, watching mafia movies like Goodfellas and Casino – imagining you could live some other life.” “I remembered, and all I could do was pray: that the women behind those very walls, feeling as […]

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