It started so elegantly but it ended up looking like the keystone cops taking over Christmas Eve. Gavin, the pastor was perplexed when he looked out among the people. They weren’t looking at him. They seemed to be looking past him. Most were focused on one, single candelabra that was placed just inches from the…
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by David Briscoe As citizens of the United States, we look back with amazement at the wisdom of our founding fathers. In particular, we marvel at the foresight they showed in hammering out a constitution that remains our binding national covenant to this day. It has been and is the envy of many other…
Read MoreA few days ago, we witnessed another atrocity as Coptic Christians were brutally attacked by Islamic jihadists. The calamity reminds us that the story of violence and terror continues. President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi named a 22-year-old, Mahmoud Shafik Mohamed Mostafa, as the alleged perpetrator of the suicide attack. He said other people, including one woman, had…
Read More“I did it all. I argued with him. I tried to get him to read books. I shared podcasts with him. I went alone to workshops to learn how to better connect with him. But it seemed like the more I pried, prodded and pushed him to return to the faith, the more he locked…
Read MoreA friend I admired for years recently went through a relocation that didn’t turn out well for his marriage. He moved to take a higher paying job. With more money and an unwillingness to immediately find a church family and connections with other men, his marriage imploded. When I heard the story, It reminded me…
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