Saturday, June 1, 2013
Brian Rohrbough:Father of Murdered Columbine Student Speaks Out
This is the testimony of Brian Rohrbough as it appears in the award-winning film IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Preaching in Moore: Faith That Stands Up to the Storm Read more: http://nation.time.com/2013/05/26/preaching-in-moore-faith-that-stands-up-to-the-storm/#ixzz2UifNfJEO
May 26, 2013
Churches across Moore, Okla., have transformed into disaster relief centers this week — the area is, after all, about as Bible Belt as America gets. The city website lists over 80 churches, and nearly a third are Baptist. Church after church has turned sanctuary into donation drop-off site, and lobby into insurance filing center or food bank. This Sunday, pastors are offering another type of assistance, one intended to feed the soul: preaching.
Pastor Ted Miller of Crossroads Church has led his 1,500-member church for only one year, and this is his first time pastoring a community though a tragedy of such magnitude. While none of his immediate church members lost their lives, all have walked through the valley of the shadow of death this week. Many families had children at Plaza Towers Elementary and faced the traumatic reality of little ones missing. Thirty-two families in his congregation suffered total or significant property loss.
Miller’s main Sunday message is to remind parishioners that the tornado’s May 20 destruction was not God’s judgment. Equating natural destruction with God’s plan can be a dangerous theological path to tread — God is not mad, he says, but rather the opposite is true. God comforts people in the midst of their grief. “God is our refuge and strength, our ever-present help in trouble, therefore we will not fear though the Earth should change and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,” he says, quoting Psalm 46. Miller also points to the New Testament book of Romans, in which the Apostle Paul tells of the Earth’s groanings. “The earth groans, weather patterns change, they come and go with climate changes,” Miller explains. “A natural disaster and an act of God are not the same thing.”
2 years after Joplin tornado, survivor ministers in Moore
MOORE, Okla. (BP) -- Gary Hunley had seen it all before. As he surveyed
the damage left behind from last Monday's EF5 tornado in Moore, Okla.,
he saw an all-too-familiar scene of overturned cars, metal signposts
bent to the ground and houses reduced to rubble.
Almost two years to the day before the historic Moore tornado, Hunley's home was destroyed by an equally historic tornado in Joplin, Mo., which killed 158 people. Since then Hunley, the leader on his Spring River Baptist Association Disaster Relief team, has participated in numerous Southern Baptist Disaster Relief responses. Yet because of the amount of damage in Moore, the latest assignment has brought back a variety of memories.
"I understand it," Hunley said. "I saw it yesterday for the first time. It was like Joplin -- the scene, the smell, the look on people's faces. Some are trying to be uplifting and act like everything is okay. They're hiding it though; I can see it on their face. I feel so sorry for them."
READ MORE AT BAPTIST PRESS
Almost two years to the day before the historic Moore tornado, Hunley's home was destroyed by an equally historic tornado in Joplin, Mo., which killed 158 people. Since then Hunley, the leader on his Spring River Baptist Association Disaster Relief team, has participated in numerous Southern Baptist Disaster Relief responses. Yet because of the amount of damage in Moore, the latest assignment has brought back a variety of memories.
"I understand it," Hunley said. "I saw it yesterday for the first time. It was like Joplin -- the scene, the smell, the look on people's faces. Some are trying to be uplifting and act like everything is okay. They're hiding it though; I can see it on their face. I feel so sorry for them."
READ MORE AT BAPTIST PRESS
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Homeless Ga. Teen 'Humbled' by Experience Graduates as Valedictorian
By Nicola Menzie , Christian Post Reporter
May 22, 2013|1:16 pm
Chelesa Fearce Earns Entry to Spelman College Where She Will Enroll as Third-Year Student
A 17-year-old student from Georgia whose family of five was homeless for
most of her high school career has managed to graduate at the top of
her class and earn a spot at prestigious Spelman College, where she will
be enrolling as a junior in the fall.
"I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore," Chelesa Fearce told a local news station.
"You're worried about your home life and then worried at school. Worry
about being a little hungry sometimes, go hungry sometimes. You just
have to deal with it. You eat what you can, when you can."
Tragedy Sparks the Church to Spring Into Action
Steve Strang
When the monstrous tornados hit Oklahoma, the church sprang into action. That’s the reports I’m getting from some friends who live in the area and who have been helping, along with thousands of others.
One was Steven Earp, the young pastor I wrote about a week ago. I texted him to see if he was OK because I knew his Elevate Church was in Moore, Okla., where the worst devastation took place. He called back and told me he was OK and how people in his church were responding. One of his associate pastors, who also works in the sheriff’s office for Cleveland County, gave us this report.
READ MORE AT CHARISMA NEWS
When the monstrous tornados hit Oklahoma, the church sprang into action. That’s the reports I’m getting from some friends who live in the area and who have been helping, along with thousands of others.
One was Steven Earp, the young pastor I wrote about a week ago. I texted him to see if he was OK because I knew his Elevate Church was in Moore, Okla., where the worst devastation took place. He called back and told me he was OK and how people in his church were responding. One of his associate pastors, who also works in the sheriff’s office for Cleveland County, gave us this report.
READ MORE AT CHARISMA NEWS
Vermont Becomes Third State to Legalize Assisted Suicide
With Governor Peter Shumlin’s signature on a bill the state
legislature approved, Vermont today becomes the third state after Oregon
and Washington to legalize assisted suicide.
Shumlin signed a bill today legalizing physician-assisted suicide for patients deemed to have a “terminal condition.” The move immediately drew opposition from leading pro-life groups.
READ MORE AT LIFESITENEWS
Shumlin signed a bill today legalizing physician-assisted suicide for patients deemed to have a “terminal condition.” The move immediately drew opposition from leading pro-life groups.
READ MORE AT LIFESITENEWS
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