During an interview with Oprah Winfrey last week, First Lady Michelle Obama unmasked our national political problem. Oprah asked, “Your husband’s administration, everything, was all about hope. Do you think that this administration achieved that?” Here is the response: Yes, I do. Because we feel the difference now. Now, we’re feeling what not having hope…
Every life, no matter how brief or how long, arrives at the entrance of the valley of the shadow of death. We walk into that valley – and through that valley – and out of that valley – by faith. We do not walk in fear because we do not walk through the valley alone….
By Marie Bowen, Presbyterians Pro-Life. As I sat down this morning to begin the task of putting together the slightly late November newsletter for PPL, I received a link to an article about Dr. Peter Rasmussen, a physician and advocate for “physician aid in dying.” Rasmussen was diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor, grade 4…
“Is tomorrow Christmas?” has become the routine tuck-in question at my house. For 10 days now I’ve been answering, “No, but it’s coming soon.” My stepson is not particularly attuned to the calendar — daily, weekly or monthly. To his way of thinking it’s always possible that tomorrow is his birthday, or Saturday, or in this…
By Christina Fox The gospel saved me. “That’s elementary,” you might be thinking. Yes, the gospel, the truths of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection, appropriated by faith, have saved me for all eternity. But that’s not the salvation about which I am thinking. The gospel saved me from my pit of despair. I have battled…