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It’s 4:30 AM and JFK International Airport is moving at a slow-crawl type of pace. People are deplaning their red-eye flights wondering what time zone they are in, and others are thinking that the first flight of the day option of the ticket they purchased two months ago would have been a much wiser choice. […]

A firm conviction has been planted in my heart as I read or hear reports of persecution, and that is that all of us have a sacred obligation to our persecuted brothers and sisters –  the body of Christ – to take this suffering on as our own. I have to take to heart the […]

With hair to my waist and needle tracks still showing on my arm, I was an oddity in the small Christian bookstore. The balding, gray-haired clerk was small in stature but big in heart, walking right up to me and sharing the Gospel. “I just gave my life to Jesus,” I explained, “and was baptized […]

Ministry TO the Community January 22, 2016 By Brian Mills I believe the days of most people showing up to church on at least Easter and Christmas are over. The leaders of today’s church must move from the office out into the community in order to reach their community. All through Jesus’ earthly life, He […]

Is it possible to be a fan of the new year while simultaneously hating the month of January?!? In any case, this is my mindset. I’m looking forward to all the possibilities a new year can bring, but feel like the first month doesn’t quite live up to the hype. January feels like a promised […]

One of my favorite things to do at Christmas is stroll on over to the Epcot theme park that is part of Walt Disney World and enjoy the Candlelight Processional. If you know anything about this particular theme park, then you are aware that a significant portion of the park is the World Showcase. The […]

As I think back on that night at Epcot, I don’t know if it was the clear starry night, the massive choir, the 50-piece orchestra, the narrator reading from the Scriptures, or the fact that I was sitting with my family, but these were my thoughts. I came home, and began to scribble and type […]

Like you, I have experienced a wide range of emotions of shock, profound sadness, and a surge of anger this past weekend as we watch the people of Paris mourn and the terrorists of ISIS celebrate. Colonel Kim Poole, retired from the front lines of Iraq, told our SLU 201 students that “The first line […]

November 11 marks a historic day in United States history. Originally, Veterans Day was known as Armistice Day, because it was the day peace was agreed upon to bring an end to The Great War (World War I) in 1918. The following year, in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson publicly commemorated this anniversary of this important […]