In 1957, a British TV news program reported on the bumper spring spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. It showed a family joyfully picking ripe spaghetti from their spaghetti trees and having a celebration dinner of fresh garden-to-plate spaghetti. The program, Panorama, was a popular and trusted news source, and since the British public was not very […]
One pleasant September evening, Xavier Melo was driving home from work when his car was hit by a speeding vehicle in an intersection. Melo suffered head trauma, lost consciousness, and fell into a coma. Here’s what happened next: He left his body and hovered above it, observing a nurse in the ambulance who held his […]
Gene is in his early 70s and attends his local Presbyterian church. Spend a little time discussing religion with him and you’ll learn that he also believes in reincarnation, a view he’s held for most of his adult life. As a young adult, Gene immersed himself in the California hippie culture and joined the Hare […]
When I was ten years old, I decided to be baptized. Despite a godly upbringing in a truly devout Christian home, it was not love for God or His love for me that dragged me down the aisle to do this. It was raw and naked fear. I knew that someday my final destination would […]
Ready or not, the form and concept of money is changing—rapidly. Jesus encouraged us to “occupy till I come” and to be the salt and light of the world. One of the places we do this is in the marketplace. But that marketplace is changing in substantial ways—from the steady decline of cash to the […]
“Media exposure has become America’s most widespread and serious addiction.” So concludes George Barna, one of the most quoted social researchers in America, after studying major influences on American society. Addictions aren’t always to chemical substances. They are any compulsive behavior that brings short-term pleasure but long-term destruction. Not surprisingly, Barna also found that media—specifically […]
“I…saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.” Revelation 13:1 Interest in the topic of the “beast” and his “mark” has always surged during times of peril and uncertainty. As people grapple with a […]
“The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth,” said Pope Francis I in his famous 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home.” He continued ominously: “We can see signs that things are now reaching a breaking point…. If we scan the regions of […]
Although the exact word rapture isn’t in the Bible, millions of prophecy-minded Christians have nevertheless been taught that soon God’s church will disappear from planet Earth without a trace. Headlines are predicted to read: “Multitudes Missing! Chaos Sweeps Globe!” The number-one promoter of the rapture idea has been the New York Times best-selling Left Behind series, coauthored by Tim LaHaye and […]
After his last of three widely publicized and failed predictions for the end of the world (October 21, 2011), famous Christian radio host Harold Camping finally conceded that his attempts to predict such a date were “sinful,” and that his critics had been right in emphasizing the words of Matthew 24:36: “Of that day and […]