By Delvin R. Sweeney “Does Jesus Care?” The words of the hymn speak to the question the Israelites must have asked during their Egyptian captivity. Dealing with Oppression I am a father to four mostly grown children. Any father whose child has had to deal with bullying can relate to the desire to […]
By Christy Barritt Taxpayers No Longer Funding Georgia Abortions The Georgia Department of Community Health voted to restrict state employee insurance policies from covering abortions. The change, which is scheduled to take effect in January, will ban elective abortion coverage for approximately 650,000 past and present employees in Georgia who are covered by the […]
By Arlene Graber Capernaum was a flurry of activity. The city, on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, was a major trade center for merchants from Syria, Caesarea, and Egypt, and all who traveled through the crossroads from those regions had to pay custom taxes. Called by Christ Matthew sat in […]
By Sam E. Stone In our study of Genesis we saw God appear to Abraham (Genesis 15), reaffirming his promise to make of him a great nation. But God indicated that Abraham’s descendants would have to remain in Egypt for 400 years (v. 13). While the Israelites were enslaved there, a baby boy was […]
By J. Michael Corley Five crows sit on a fence. If one crow decides to fly away, how many are left? Think about it. We’ll come back to that question later. In the 2004 film The Terminal, Viktor Navorski (played by Tom Hanks) is stranded at the JFK airport. While he was in the […]
