October = Pastor Appreciation Month – 10 ideas to make it a Month to Remember
Pastors are precious. I know my pastor is precious and I know your pastor is precious too! October is Pastor Appreciation Month so how can we make a month to remember? My top 10 (COVID friendly) Pastor Appreciation Ideas: This may not be the year to have an all-church ya’ll come public appreciation event but…
Read MoreThe second mother effect: how Kamala Harris learned about the love of God from a saint downstairs
As the children’s book affirms, “everyone has a mother.” But what about a second mother? Kamala Harris identifies Regina Shelton as her second mom and she’s a woman we need to know. Regina and Arthur Shelton were the downstairs neighbors in Oakland, Calif. when Kamala was just seven years old and her parents divorced. The…
Read MoreHow NOW shall we live?
Every morning a new headline to break our heart, sear our conscience, convulse our emotions, and threaten our sense of safety and sanity. It feels increasingly as if the world upended – and there are those declaring with certainty that the End is near. How now shall we live this moment, this day? Three thoughts:…
Read MoreThe wake is over. He is home. George Floyd’s homegoing service and the sung Gospel
The wake is over. George Floyd’s homegoing service was carried by every major outlet around the world. From PBS to CNN to FOX to the BBC and beyond, the world had wall to wall coverage of a four hour funeral for a black man whose name was unknown to all but a few people just…
Read MoreThree conversations over three days on how to change the world
Over the past three days I’ve had three conversations with three different people asking and answering the same query: the world needs to change, what can we do to move that change in a redemptive direction? The first conversation didn’t go well. My conversation partner was a generation older than me. He sees and hears…
Read MoreAct of God: why does God get blamed but rarely thanked?
As the pandemic matures, watch for a wave of lawsuits. From business deals that didn’t go through to hospitals that didn’t accommodate scheduled surgeries to every other institution, business or entity whose failure to live up to their side of a contract resulted in injury – perceived or otherwise – to someone else is going…
Read MoreMother Nature, scientism, Creation care, COVID19 and the question of how now we shall live
April 22, 2020 was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. There was a 3.8 magnitude earthquake in California. As earthquakes go, that’s relatively minor. But it lead to a flurry of social media posts about “angering Mother Nature,” how Mother Nature was being provoked by human “assaults upon her” and myriad other references to the…
Read MoreH.O.P.E. for those in S.O.S. distress
People are distress and some of them are acknowledging their distress with cries of S.O.S. (Save Our Souls). Time is ripe for sharing the Good News of the Gospel. This is the day to Help Others Perceive Eternally. Today is the day for Christ’s people to serve as living demonstrations of hope, secure. But how…
Read MoreWhy pray in the midst of this?
I offered to pray for a mom who was angry and frustrated and grieving in the midst of more than she can bear. To be clear, I had done what I could and connected her with resources in our community in addition to offering to pray but the offer to pray is what provokes this…
Read MoreSpotlight Interview with Marvin Olasky: Reforming Journalism
Marvin Olasky has a PhD from the University of Michigan. He’s the editor in chief of WORLD magazine and holds the distinguished chair in journalism and public policy at Patrick Henry College. Many of us know him from his writings and blogs. Many of us know him as well from his books. He recently joined…
Read MoreSpotlight Interview: Os Guinness on Carpe Diem Redeemed
What does it mean to seize the day as a Christian? How do we embrace a biblical view of time and our place in it as it relates to the culture we are living in? Os Guinness again joined Carmen recently to discuss his latest book: Carpe Diem Redeemed: Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times.…
Read MoreSpotlight Interview with Adam Carrington: The Big and Small “C” Constitution
Have you ever wanted to just sit down and ask a college professor to help you think through what you’re hearing in the headlines? Adam Carrington is a professor at Hillsdale College. He’s an expert on U.S. politics and the Supreme Court. He joins Carmen regularly on Mornings with Carmen. Recently Carmen got him talking…
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