Media Matters Attacks Christian Conservatives News website The Daily Caller reported in February that Media Matters, a politically progressive watchdog group that’s dedicated to “monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation,” had accepted a $50,000 grant to “monitor and attack” religious news outlets like the Christian Broadcasting Network and Focus on the Family. The grant was […]
By Sam E. Stone In the Old Testament, God’s relation to the Hebrew people was often compared to that of a shepherd and his sheep (Jeremiah 31:10; Ezekiel 34:31). It is not surprising to find that Jesus used the same illustration (Luke 15:3-6). Today’s lesson is taken again from John’s Gospel. The setting is […]
By Sam E. Stone An entire year elapsed between the healing of the lame man (John 5) and the feeding of the 5,000 (John 6). This would be two years after the first cleansing of the temple and one year before the crucifixion. John explains that his Gospel contains only a limited number of […]
By Bob Russell “It’s much more difficult to oversee a church than to run a business.” That statement was made recently by a business executive who had resigned from an international corporation to accept a position as the administrator of a large church. Business analyst Peter Drucker suggested that the three most difficult jobs […]
By Christy Barritt New York City Churches Evicted Approximately 60 churches meeting in New York City public schools were given eviction notices in February of this year. In December, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take on the case of a Bronx church meeting in a public school, thus allowing the city’s education department […]
