Sir Iqbal Sacranie, head of the Muslim Council of Britain, caused a storm of protest when, asked during a BBC radio interview in January 2006 if he thought homosexuality was harmful to society, he replied, “Certainly it is a practice that in terms of health, in terms of the moral issues that come along in a society, it is. It is not acceptable.”1 High-profile homosexuals reacted angrily to his remarks. One openly-gay Conservative MP declared, for instance, that “[t]his is an absurd medieval view. One should separate the religious from the secular.”2

Pastor John Scripture Reference: I Kings 11: 1-13

Two presidents, two approaches to welfare. In 1854 when Congress presented Franklin Pierce with legislation funding mental hospitals, he vetoed it, fearing such federal involvement would curtail private giving: “[S]hould this bill become a law . . . the foundations of charity will be dried up at home. . .”1 However, when Theodore Roosevelt met with the White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children in 1909, he left the details to experts: “How the relief shall come, public, private, or by a mixture of both, in what way, you are competent to say and I am not.”2 Charity […]

4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. 5 When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the LORD God formed the man of […]

Sitting at the king’s court under the proclamation of God’s Word in autumn 1547, John Bradford felt decidedly uncomfortable. The preacher’s words on integrity and the need for personal and national financial probity stirred up his conscience. He left court that day knowing that change was required, change that would be both public and costly.

Besides serving as the second President of the United States (1797-1801), John Adams was in many other ways a pivotal figure in the founding of his nation. As a delegate to the Continental Congress and the author of the Massachusetts Constitution (on which the national one was later modeled), Adams understood the American experiment at least as well as any other person of his time. As Adams saw it, the American people faced a stark choice: esteem and embrace godly virtue and thrive or cast it away and decline.

Pastor Chris Scripture Reference: Matthew 6:25-34

As dawn broke over the residence of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, her illness seemed fatal. Her personal chaplain, George Whitefield, who had preached in all of her houses to most of her noble friends, now moved purposefully towards the window. Opening it, he heard the voices of thousands of admirers as they prayerfully sang a petitionary hymn:1 “Among the great ones may she stand.”2

  How one missionary and their children celebrate Thanksgiving…Starting November 1 of every year our family cuts out paper hands (our personal hands) one for each day leading up to Thanksgiving.  Every night we write something that we are thankful for on our paper hands.  Then we curl the fingers to look like leaves and tape them to our paper tree trunk. We call this our Thankful Tree.  We usually leave it up through the Christmas holiday and continue to talk about God’s love for us.

  But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. Revelation 2:6 (NIV)