Rise to the Moment of Truth Thursday, November 21, 2024

Tag: CHRISTIANITY

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Laura Clark: 5 principles for Election Day

For good or ill, we pick our next president on Tuesday. Here are five principles to consider before you get in the voting booth.

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Joey Clark: Jordan Peterson’s refusal to give a simple yes or no

Jordan Peterson is in hot water yet again for refusing to give a pat answer to a profound question. When recently pressed by Richard Dawkins on whether he believes in the Resurrection of Christ, Peterson would not provide a simple yes or no.

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Phil Williams: Faith AND politics

Faith and politics go together like a hand in a glove. Get up Christians. Get busy, and go to the polls and vote your faith. Vote like your faith depends on it.

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Carter Ashcraft: How Alabama should mimic Louisiana

Visiting Louisiana, two things struck me: I found that they focus a lot of their attention on local, seemingly unimportant politics, while their Christ-following community is far bolder and more consistently devoted than my experience in Alabama, generally speaking.

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Allen Keller: Richard Dawkins and the Death of the West

Christianity has outlasted all temporal societies and is likely to do so still. Put another way, if our way of life is to continue in any way resembling what it has been to this point, we must not cast aside our central, most dominant characteristic.

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Kristin Landers: Christian women, rise up!

To say this presidential election will shape the future for our children is not an embellishment. You may not like either candidate. That’s OK. You just need to be awake regarding the facts. The time to engage is now before it’s too late.

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Russell Galloway: Man cannot live on biscuits alone

Alabamians are free to play hooky from church. But man cannot live on biscuits alone.

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Andrew Hodges: We didn't know

As we shield our eyes from the atrocities of a culture that treats children of early development as political bargaining pieces, will history look back on us like the people of Weimar who said, “We didn’t know?"

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Phil Williams: God will not be mocked

“A Paris party on a Friday night.” Is that what it was? Or was it a dystopian pagan nightmare on the Seine?

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Kaitlyn Smith: A Christian ponders the RNC convention

In the here and now, Republicans have united around a common foe, outrage at the assassination attempt, and the policies coming out of the current White House. Yet they’re seemingly oblivious to the schism in the foundation of their party.

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Charles Kiplinger: The national duties of Christian citizens

As Christians seeking to transform institutions and individuals, we should all approach political engagement with prayer and humility, listening respectfully to those who disagree.

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Col. John Eidsmoe: Freedom ... and nothing more?

What does freedom really mean? Where does it come from? Why did our forefathers risk their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to secure it for us?

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Laura Clark: Rise up, Christians! ‘Lemon’ is dead!

Christians are constantly told to keep their faith out of the workplace because of “separation of church and state,” a made-up concept not found anywhere in law.

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Ashley Carter: Taylor Swift – second verse, same as the first

Listening to Taylor Swift's new album only strengthened my opinion that Swift is not a role model for our young girls.

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Laura Clark: What’s the difference between your faith and your personal preference?

What is the difference between the modern church and a community center with a shared mission? If you’re the average American, the answer is, sadly, nothing.

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Laura Clark: Be ye not pontificators of the Word, but doers

We are Christians. Our lives, our values, our speech, our politics, and our world belong to God. It’s high time we act like it.

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Allan Bledsoe: IVF, killing the preborn, and Christian worship

What does “going to church” have to do with what happens to embryos in IVF clinics? If we understand the God of the Bible, we will grasp how the two are vitally connected.

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Allen Keller: John Lennon and the lure of the East

Thanks in part to John Lennon, New Age ideas have made advances in our culture. But we should beware of the entire story, especially if we’re to resist the lure of the East.

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Kristin Landers: A Thanksgiving perspective in the midst of hard times

Circumstances in our lives are constantly shifting. One day we’re well, the next day we’re sick. One month we have plenty, the next month half the appliances break and we find our budgets in the red.

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Col. John Eidsmoe: From Wittenberg to Plymouth, from Luther to the Pilgrims

Four things to learn from Luther, Tyndale and Bradford as we celebrate Thanksgiving.

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Nick Treglia: Ready at a moment’s notice

When we think about witnessing to someone, it often comes with a pang of anxiety or stress. We feel like the conversation would be forced or awkward. But the Lord works in mysterious ways.

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Phil Williams: The war on Christian patriots

Christian Nationalism? Sure. If you need a label to put on someone who loves the Lord and loves America and believes that the two go well together, go ahead, label me that. Guilty as charged.

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Allen Keller: America seems to be abandoning nationhood and Christianity

If we are at war against Russia because of nationhood and Christianity, as Macgregor said, then we should stop supporting the war in Ukraine. We cannot expect God to bless our country if we do otherwise.

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Ashley Carter: A love story built on a strong relationship with God

In this journey called life, relationships hold tremendous value, none more so than the bond shared between a husband and wife.

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Matt Clark: The relationship between Christianity and originalism

One hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause protects parental rights. This holding is tricky.

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Parker Snider: This year’s Pride Month shows Christians have a decision to make

Most Alabamian Christians exhibit one of two reactions to the LGBTQ movement. The first is outrage. The second is indifference.

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Amie Beth Shaver: Are we wrecked?

Road trips are in our family's DNA. It is what we do. But that Saturday marked the first time I saw three wrecks in six hours.

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