Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation's ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians.
Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church.
Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.
You may have an older audience in front of you holding the Bible and a younger audience holding an iPhone. You don't want to lose either audience.
The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has.
Ladies, you do not have to submit yourself to any man abusing you.
As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.
Occasional setbacks are probably unavoidable - part of the struggle of living in a fallen world. Other setbacks are due to our own sin and failures, or circumstances outside our control.
I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.
We can never get around to being one nation under God if we can't even get around to being one Church under God.
We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is to the rule of God, the more ordered our relationships will become in society.
The Church has failed to be a positive influence for good in our nation and our world.
The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.
Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching the Word, is to forget that we're to preach the Word to people.
When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation.
And when you redefine the family other than what the Creator intended when he established it, then you look at the devolution of civilization.
If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference.
The cross is to be our point of reference for every area of our lives all the time.
When I heard Martin Luther King's speech, 'I Have a Dream,' I reflected on the fact that much of the success of that movement was driven by the unity of the church.
Every four years, the eyes of America become riveted on the national election returns. But God's first concern during any political season is not the same as our first concern - it is not about what is happening, or going to happen, in the White House. God's first concern is what is happening, or not happening, in His house.