Whose Will Do You Really Serve: God’s or Your Own?
Listen to any prosperity gospel preacher and implicit in their teaching, couched in holy-sounding words, is the message that God doesn’t want you sick, poor or unhappy. He can make you healthy, prosperous and giddily happy if you follow their teachings, along with...
Skip James ‘Had the Blues for the Human Race’
Soul-filled Skip James “was possibly the strangest, and most complex of all Mississippi blues artists, and he is also one of the greatest.”
The Mozart of ‘Power Pop’: In Memoriam to Emitt Rhodes
In 1967 a prodigy of pop music appeared in southern California. Emitt Rhodes was a teenage wunderkind. His angelic tenor would soon render dozens of self-penned pieces in a rapidly-evolving style of lyrical and melodic beauty. The quality, maturity and moral tone...
How to Answer the Great Commission: Prepare Your ‘Elevator Speech’
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. (Matthew 28: 19-20)...
On Jerome Hines, the Opera Legend and a Powerful Voice for God
In the mid-1970s the health and fitness craze had begun. “Health club” chains sprang up around the country. In 1976, after being in and out of universities for a few years, I found myself working at one of these clubs in an affluent northern New Jersey...
“Disfigured” by David Berkowitz – formerly the ‘Son of Sam,’ now the ‘Son of Hope’
Our friend and brother in Christ, David Berkowitz, wrote the following Journal essay originally published on his Arise and Shine website. With his permission, we are reposting it here. Infamous as the "Son of Sam" murderer, David's sins titillate the fallen and so are...
Life in New Sodom
The two men [angels] said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to...
Peddling the Gospel: An Affront to the Cross
Peddling the Gospel for profit is not new, It was going on even in the Apostle Paul’s time. But then or now, it is wrong because the truth is free.
Are We to Be Victims or Victors?
It’s in the air. It’s everywhere. It’s the mentality of victimhood. Racial groups and ethnicities, the well-established, the wealthy and the poor – many are feeling themselves victimized. Seems like everywhere we turn someone is feeling oppressed by...