When they took of the bread, they were no longer remembering an old account of God rescuing the Israelites from Egyptian slavery. They were remembering their friend, who days or weeks before had rescued humanity from sin, shame, and death. And when they raised the cup, they weren’t just ...
In 2006, Havard lost her father to a rare form of cancer. Then she lost one of her best friends -- a young woman in the prime of life -- to cancer as well. Her church and her pastor stepped in, she says. . "They called when all the cards stopped," she says. . ...
As part of my presentation I presented a kind of case study of a high school boy who got his girlfriend pregnant. I asked the students what this boy and this girl should do, and almost in unison they replied, 'Get an abortion.' I had heard anecdotally that this was becoming the ...