This Sunday’s Super Bowl is expected to be the biggest sports betting event in the nation’s history, hosted in the world’s gambling Mecca of Las Vegas. It’s reported that some 68 million Americans will bet about $23 billion–a new record

We know worry is bad for us. It’s unhealthy, tying knots in our stomachs & kinks in our backs. Many stay awake at night tossing & turning, developing headaches, ulcers, & high blood pressure. Others stew while sweating, pacing, &

In our current church message series, “Good for You,” we’ve been exploring biblical principles for better living. We seem to be in a high-stress time of negative emotions & mental health struggles. A number of factors have converged in the

Why am I pro-life? Because killing innocent people is wrong. Whether aborting a newly conceived baby in the womb or assisting a terminally ill elderly person with suicide, murder should be unthinkable. If someone wants to commit suicide, that’s wrong

Though we don’t know what lies ahead in this new year, & we anticipate the wide range of possibilities, Christians should be neither overly pessimistic nor optimistic. What’s going on in American society is neither normal nor OK. But we

To change the way you act, you gotta’ change the way you think; to change the way you think, you gotta’ change what you think about. Making the Bible a daily part of your lifestyle will change your life like

Some celebrities that you’d never expect to become Christians posted about their conversions & baptisms in the past year. We saw TV reality star Kat Von D leave her occult lifestyle to become a Christ follower back in October (I

At some point around the time of Jesus’ birth, a special star shone in the sky. Wise Men from the East showed up in Jerusalem to inquire: “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we

Have you ever heard of the “Lemon test?” It’s been a part of American jurisprudence since 1971 when the Supreme Court designed it as a way to deal with cases about the government’s involvement in religious speech. The Lemon test

1963 was a pivot year of social & cultural upheaval in some of the most turbulent times especially with two monumental events. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington & “I Have a Dream” speech played a crucial role in

For kids, Christmas is all about the toys. Can you remember the thrill of wandering down the store aisles in the toy section? Did you look through store catalogs & ads to circle the toys you wanted? The best time

Remember the parable Jesus told about the shepherd with 100 sheep? One sheep wandered away & got lost, so the shepherd left the 99 to go find it (Luke 15:4-7). Jesus is the Good Shepherd who leaves the 99 who