Tag: Billy Graham

By micoots
17/01/2017 0

Who will pray at Trump’s inauguration

The six religious leaders who will offer prayers at Donald Trump’s inauguration have been announced.
They include three Pentecostals: Paula White, Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, and Samuel Rodriguez. White and Jackson, a black megachurch pastor, are prominent preachers of the “prosperity Gospel.’ (See our earlier post on White.) Rodriguez is a Hispanic Assemblies of God minister also preaches a perhaps less extreme version of the prosperity gospel.
The others are Franklin Graham, whose father Billy no..

By micoots
16/01/2017 0

First Peter Chapter Two Bible Study And Commentary

Here is a Bible study and commentary on 1st Peter chapter two.
First Peter 2:1-3 “So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.”When the Apostle Peter was writing to the Jews, most of whom had been displaced from their homes, he wanted them to focus on growing in grace and feeding on “the pure spiritual milk” of the Wo..

By micoots
16/01/2017 0

A New Q&A on Facebook: Join Me Each Tuesday at Noon CST

I love technology. At any given time, I always have access to my cell or my laptop. All of the cool features help keep me to stay organized and allow me to do more and do it well. But if I’m honest, one of the main reasons I love technology is that is helps me develop, sustain, and grow relationships with people from all over. It gives me touchpoints with people at moments when, 10 or 20 years ago, that would not have been possible.

I am always looking for new and cr..

By micoots
16/01/2017 0

Reading King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail

If Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Had a Dream” speech (August 28, 1963) was the visionary sermon of the Civil Rights Movement, his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was its epistolatory defense.

On April 12, 1963—Good Friday—an open letter had appeared in the Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper issuing “A Call for Unity” and protesting the recent Civil Rights demonstrations in Birmingham.

The eclectic group of eight white clergymen from Alabama who wrote and signed the letter—two Episcopalians and two Met..

By micoots
14/01/2017 0

Are We “Saints” or “Aints?”

“After 47 years of being raised in a pious household, after 30 years of considering myself a born-again Christian, and after 18 years of being an ordained minister and getting to know my flock, I have come to the conclusion that me and every Bible-believing Christian I have ever met is an aint.”

In some churches in the southern United States, one might hear older congregants talk of the saints and the aints. In using this language, they are drawing a distinction between those who outwardly walk..

By micoots
13/01/2017 0

Rebuilding Our Witness (Part 2): Developing an Understanding of the Connection of Love & Evangelism in Light of Our New Political Climate

A Christian worldview embraces two things: the Great Commandment and the Great Commission

In Part 1, I talked about why we are at a time when we need to step back and assess how we view the world and the lens we apply to all that we see and do. I talked about a Christian worldview that holds in one hand the Great Commandment and in the other the Great Commission. It’s a worldview that embraces a love of God and a love of others above even ourselves.

Recently, we have seen many ways in which th..

By micoots
13/01/2017 0

Rebuilding Our Witness (Part 2): Developing an Understanding of the Connection of Love & Evangelism in Light of Our New Political Climate

A Christian worldview embraces two things: the Great Commandment and the Great Commission

In Part 1, I talked about why we are at a time when we need to step back and assess how we view the world and the lens we apply to all that we see and do. I talked about a Christian worldview that holds in one hand the Great Commandment and in the other the Great Commission. It’s a worldview that embraces a love of God and a love of others above even ourselves.

Recently, we have seen many ways in which th..

By micoots
03/01/2017 0

How Young Is Too Young to Go to Church? Billy Graham Answers

How old should children be before they are allowed to go to church? One woman wrote to world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham telling him that her own parents never took her to church until she was almost a teenager because they didn't think children could understand anything about God.