By Christy Barritt Abortion Clinic Worker Pleads Guilty to Murder A former employee of a West Philadelphia abortion clinic pleaded guilty and was charged in connection with the 2009 deaths of a newborn baby and a woman undergoing a second trimester abortion. Ten employees at the clinic have been charged so far, five of them […]
Israel is delivered from Egypt: The Uniform Lesson for January 29
By Sam E. Stone For the past two months we have studied God’s covenant relationship with Abraham and his descendants. We have seen the Lord’s protection surrounding Joseph and his family as well. God’s chosen people ended up in Egypt after Jacob and his entire family moved there to escape a famine in Canaan. Time […]
The macro God in our micro world
By David Faust Psalms 19-22 According to Samford University preaching professor Dr. Robert Smith, “we have lost our sense of the mystery of God”—what he calls “the trembling adoration.” Our mistake? We “try to demystify the mystery, unscrew the inscrutable, and figure out the un-figure-out-able.” Psalm 19 invites us to ponder the mystery […]
In The World for January 22, 2012
By Christy Barritt Pakistan Christian Sentenced to Death Asia Bibi was open about her Christian faith as she worked on a Pakistani farm owned by a Muslim. Many of the Muslim women who worked with Bibi pressured her to renounce Christianity and accept Islam. According to Voice of the Martyrs, when Bibi refused to […]
Before they were stars
Dr. Charlie W. Starr I’d like to kick off this slightly new column on Arts and Media with some Christmas movie memories and a lesson they teach. In an age of television and film, Christmas traditions have come to include everyone sitting down to watch favorite family Christmas movies. To older classics like It’s […]
