Over a 50-year span, the average American spends approximately 100,000 hours working. Unfortunately, millions of Christians are duped into believing that there isn’t the slightest connection between what they do all day and what they believe God wants to accomplish on this Earth. Nothing could be further from the truth. Work is not something we do apart from God. Work is not something beneath God’s dignity or concern. Not only did God ordain work itself, but your work matters to God. We find at the beginning of the book of Genesis that God created man in His image as a […]

Years back, I remember being asked by one of the pastors in my church if I would like to serve in a capacity that would include a certain level of leadership responsibility.  Along with that position, I would be given a title as well as some tasks to carry out in our church body.  Being given a new opportunity to serve the Lord in ways I never had before was both humbling and frightening.  Would I live up to the standards of those who had served before me?  Would I be effective or would I fall flat on my face?  […]

Heart2Heart Senior Outreach of South Florida will officially launch its Life on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 9, which is also the beginning of National Nursing Home Week. Several events to celebrate Mother’s Day are planned for local nursing homes by churches partnered with Heart2Heart Senior Outreach: Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale, Christ Church of Fort Lauderdale and Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. By uniting churches to work together to meet the spiritual needs of the elderly in nursing homes, Heart2Heart Senior Outreach hopes to ensure that each resident in a South Florida long-term care center has regular and consistent one-on-one visitation, with […]

Congress has ordered the president’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to find a way to pay for the $63 million a year in new spending for benefits of same-sex partners of federal employees. John Berry, director of the OPM, announced the decision last year to extend the benefits. In a hearing before a Senate appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said, “…it’s been five months and we’re still waiting for those offsets, which…is preventing the bill from being taken up on the Senate floor.” Family advocates explain that it doesn’t matter whether there’s enough money because it violates the Defense […]

Congress has ordered the president’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to find a way to pay for the $63 million a year in new spending for benefits of same-sex partners of federal employees. John Berry, director of the OPM, announced the decision last year to extend the benefits. In a hearing before a Senate appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said, “…it’s been five months and we’re still waiting for those offsets, which…is preventing the bill from being taken up on the Senate floor.” Family advocates explain that it doesn’t matter whether there’s enough money because it violates the Defense […]

Most Christians today acknowledge that caring for the poor is a biblical requisite. The primary debate among them is over how we can best fulfill this mandate, which more than 2,000 verses of Scripture prescribe. For example, a group of evangelicals who call themselves “Red Letter Christians” contends that the charitable activities of individuals, churches and parachurch organizations are insufficient to accomplish what God expects us to do to aid the poor and oppressed. These mostly politically liberal Christians argue, therefore, that the government must partner with the church to help the poor in ways that go beyond the sacrificial […]

Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, said that from both the right and left, “Whenever one side has power, they want to believe, they have a will to believe, that the public has validated every jot and tittle of their program.” This kind of radicalism does not sell to the American population, he said. Lowry spoke to students at The King’s College in New York City on Feb. 23, 2010, as part of the college’s Distinguished Visitor’s Series. Lowry began to report on the Washington political scene as a new employee at National Review during the so-called Republican Revolution of […]

If a referendum to legalize marijuana passes in California on Nov. 2, how long will it take for the idea to travel 2,000 miles east and take root in North Carolina? It may sound like a hypothetical math question missing a detail or two, but in truth it’s an issue that Tar Heel residents must take seriously. Medicinal marijuana use has already been proposed and may gain momentum as drug laws across the land become more liberal. Those pushing for legalized pot secured enough signatures late last month to put the matter on the California ballot this fall, and already […]

Television and film star Kirk Cameron will be in Boca Raton on Saturday, June 5th to present the “Love Worth Fighting For” marriage event at Boca Raton Community Church. Cameron, along with singer-songwriter Warren Barfield, will present two sessions, the first, from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. and the second, from 7:00 to 10:30 p.m. In the late 1980s, Cameron skyrocketed to fame playing Mike Seaver, on the hit show Growing Pains. His face adorned every teen heartthrob magazine cover. Today, Kirk’s plays firefighter Caleb Holt, who is fighting to save his marriage, in the motion picture Fireproof. It has ignited […]