South Carolina will take a step forward in healing the wounds of last week’s mass shooting when President Barack Obama arrives on Friday to deliver the eulogy for the pastor of the historic church where the attack took place.
If you’ve read the Gospels, you know that Jesus taught that the two greatest commandments are that we love God with all of our heart, soul, and strength, and that we love our neighbor as our self (see Matthew 22:35-40).
In a decision that upends millennia of history and guts the rule of law, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling on same-sex marriage this morning, voting to redefine marriage and strip states of their rights to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
Hunger continues to plague an estimated one billion people around the world. Thirteen to eighteen million people, mostly children, die from hunger-related causes each year. That’s 35,000 people a day, over 1,000 every hour.
“Churches are places of safety. Is this true? Not during this era of Islamist terrorism and the recent AME Church shooting in South Carolina. We should not forget but we do – things ‘normalize’ then it happens again and again. The ‘no guns allowed’ signs placed in secular institution windows is laughably un-enforceable – unless gunmen are lulled into pacifism by large black text,” stated Rick Dack of Defending the Bible International (www.defendingthebible.com). What does the Bible say about deterrents, defense and the Hebrew genocide myth (Exodus) used by some to reject faith?
Sharefaith, one of the leading church websites providers, introduces a program for churches to improve their website by completely moving old information to the new platform. This process known as website migration is a notoriously difficult and time-consuming process. Sharefaith completes the service free of charge for new customers who purchase Sharefaith’s Complete Yearly plan.
