FAITH ON THE FIELD
Former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landrys admiration for Washington Redskin Coach Joe Gibbs is unabashed. No small part of the reason is that they both are equally serious Christians.
November 4 2019
athletics
coach joe gibbs
coach tom landry
dallas cowboys
fellowship of christian athletes
pro football
sports
washington redskins
IN A FAST-FOOD WORLD, ONE WHO KEEPS THE FAITH
The readers of Business Atlanta were asked several months ago to choose their citys most respected CEO. They bypassed high-profile executives such as Ted Turner and Coca-Cola Chief Executive Roberto C. Goizueta.
November 3 2018
business
ceo
chick-fil-a
fast-food
success
truett cathy
GALLUP FINDS SPIRITUAL ‘MIRACLES’ AMID DATA
Gallup’s polling has explored America’s political and economic beliefs, as he puts it, “ad nauseum.” But his number-crunching also has helped lead him to something else: a deep spiritual experience.
November 3 2018
american spirituality
george gallup jr.
polling data
spiritually committed americans
statistics
CARTER RETURNS TO D.C. ARMED WITH TOOLS TO BATTLE HOMELESSNESS
Former president Jimmy Carter returned to Washington last week to talk about a house. Not the one he lived in for four years on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, but a house he will build this summer as part of the Habitat for Humanity Jimmy Carter Work Project.
November 2 2018
habitat for humanity
homelessness
jimmy carter
WHY DID JESUS TURN WATER INTO WINE AS HIS FIRST MIRACLE?
Have you ever wondered why Jesus turned the water into wine at a wedding feast as his first miracle? He could have walked on the water, raised the dead or fed 5,000 people, all of which he did later. What does this first miracle tell us about Jesus?
November 1 2018
unity in jesus christ
YOU’RE INVITED TO THE ULTIMATE WEDDING!
Have you ever wondered why Jesus turned the water into wine at a wedding feast as his first miracle? He could have walked on the water, raised the dead or fed 5,000 people, all of which he did later.
October 30 2018
unity in jesus christ
ELIZABETH DOLE GETS STRENGTH FROM LORD FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
"I was blessed with a beautiful marriage and a challenging career," Dole regularly tells prayer breakfast groups throughout the country. "Gradually, over many years, I realized what was missing. My life was threatened with spiritual starvation."
November 1 2014
american red cross
bible study
darrell green
elizabeth dole
god's strength
perfectionism
public service
A RACE FOR THE HEARTS
Darrell Green’s most important race began one evening in 1988. He was driving home from one of those personal appearances that professional athletes make – the kind that gets them good publicity but adds little to the lives of those they visit. Green had gone to a downtown Washington apartment complex, but as he made his way home, he started thinking about what he had just done.
October 31 2014
athletics
bible study
coach joe gibbs
darrell green
darrell green learning center
darrell green youth life foundation
inner-city children
pro football
sports
super bowl
washington redskins
HER BELIEFS PAVED HER ROAD TO POWER
Kay and Charles James camped out at a hospital in Richmond, watching and praying for their daughter, Elizabeth, who had slipped into a coma 2½ weeks earlier, suffering from a disease that doctors said is usually fatal after three weeks. But then...
October 30 2014
kay james
‘ALL IN GOD’S GOOD TIME,’ JOCKEY FINDS STRENGTH IN PRAISING JESUS
On Saturday morning before the Kentucky Derby, a security guard at Churchill Downs spotted Pat Day heading for the jockey’s room decked out in a double-breasted suit. “Are you preaching today?” said the guard. “Yeah, we’re having a revival at Churchill Downs,” Day said.
October 30 2014
churchill downs
horse racing
jockey
kentucky derby
pat day
HAVE YOU EVER LOVED AND LOST?
She wanted to break up with me. She left early the next day to head back to college. I decided to pursue her, but her mind was set. Susie eventually married that guy. I felt like one of the walking wounded.
October 6 2014
finding a spouse
god's love
happy marriage
love lost
rejection
unconditional love
A FORK IN ROAD TO FIND TOMB: TWO ANCIENT SITES VIE FOR CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS
Every Easter, thousands of Christian pilgrims come here in search of a tomb vacated by a man named Jesus of Nazareth. But the question all pilgrims must answer is, “Which empty tomb will I visit?”
September 20 2013
archaeology
easter
jerusalem
resurrection
I ONCE THOUGHT HEAVEN WAS A REWARD TO BE EARNED
Most people don’t even think about heaven until things start to fall apart on Earth. My world fell apart during the sixties in the border town of McAllen, Texas, where the drugs flowed freely and the parties seemed to never end.
June 4 2010
god's love
good works
grace of god
unconditional love
WANTING BEAUTY FOR ASHES, I WAITED ON GOD TO SET THE STAGE FOR MY PRINCE
We get impatient waiting one minute for the microwave! But I have had some extra-long waits in my life that could have sent me crashing into despair were it not for God’s love.
June 3 2010
beauty
beauty for ashes
biological clock
finding a spouse
god's love
happy marriage
FOR CHRISTIAN APOLOGIST, GOD SPEAKS IN THE VOICE OF REASON
Norman Geisler never met an atheist he didn’t like. For 40 years he has read them, talked to them and debated them. Academic atheists remain the favorite on his intellectual menu because he’s never known one who didn’t condemn the Holocaust as a moral abomination. And therein lies their fatal intellectual flaw, according to Geisler.
March 11 2010
atheism
christian apologetics
moral absolutes
norman geisler
skeptics
SAM ERICSSON: ADVOCATE FOR TODAY’S TESTAMENT
Harvard Law School graduate Sam Ericsson has offered his counsel in the last two years on religious liberty and justice to people from 146 countries, including six heads of state and 12 chief justices, without charging one dime in legal fees.
March 11 2010
advocates international
civil liberties
good samaritan
law and christianity
lawyers
religious freedom
sam ericsson
FOR BILLS QUARTERBACK, FAITH IS SUREST VICTORY
The Buffalo Bills’ Frank Reich, pro football’s man of the moment, says the impending Second Coming of Jesus Christ prepped him for his backup role in leading the Bills to a record come-from-32-points-behind victory over the Houston Oilers last Sunday. The Second Coming? And the NFL playoffs?
March 10 2010
athletics
bible study
buffalo bills
frank reich
nfl playoffs
praying for victory
pro football
second coming
sports
CHRISTIAN GROUPS ADVOCATE FAMILY-FRIENDLY MOVIE CODE
The head of the Christian Film and Television Commission this week presented movie industry leaders with 1 million signatures calling for a new family-friendly movie code.
March 10 2010
christian film and television commission
family-friendly movies
hollywoods golden age
motion picture code
ted baehr
BUSH’S LINK TO EVANGELICALS AWAITS NEXT CALLING
Leigh Ann Metzger sat in her office in the Old Executive Office Building the day after the Nov. 3 election, her perky manner only slightly masking the strain of nonstop campaigning and her boss’s defeat. Now and then Metzger’s words revealed what she calls her “righteous indignation,” an apt phrase for President Bush’s liaison to the evangelical community.
March 10 2010
evangelicals
president george bush
righteous indignation
white house
‘THE LIGHT CAME ON’ FOR KLANSMAN
In summer 1967, J. Edgar Hoover ordered FBI agents to Mississippi in an all-out search for a Ku Klux Klan member of the notorious White Knights, who had begun bombing several Jewish synagogues. Almost a year later, the hunt ended after a car chase and shootout...
March 10 2010
anti-semitism
ku klux klan
racism
tom tarrants
NEW YORK AD MAN DIRECTS CAMPAIGN OF FAITH TO BRING ORPHANS TO U.S.
The Bible pronounces a special blessing on those who take up the cause of orphans. But for one of Madison Avenue’s advertising executives, who is in the midst of a seven-month campaign on behalf of 28 orphans, “the blessing is on the way; for right now, it’s very exhausting.”
March 10 2010
adoption
advertising executive
congressional coalition on adoption
joel tucciarone
orphanage
romanian orphans
VIETNAM-ERA OFFICER FOUND GOD AFTER LOSING LEGS DURING WAR
Allen Clark, a Bush appointee who directs the National Cemetery System for the Veterans Administration, recounted his miraculous recovery from a mortar shell that landed between his legs and left 25 pieces of shrapnel in them.
March 10 2010
allen clark
amputations
army
military
veterans administration
vietnam war
STUDENTS TO JOIN IN NATIONWIDE PRAYER
For an estimated 3 million devout students, the Supreme Court’s ban on classroom prayer won’t matter a bit. They’re going to gather around school flagpoles Sept. 16 before classes to pray. Some say it will be the largest student-led prayer meeting ever.
March 8 2010
freedom of expression
freedom of speech
see you at the pole
student prayer
MIRACLE WELL
Moses and the children of Israel are not the only ones who report having witnessed miracles in the desert. Desert Storm’s most incredible story, says Marine Maj. Gen. Charles Krulak, was the “miracle well” that appeared out of nowhere to supply 100,000 gallons of water a day for U.S. soldiers.
March 8 2010
desert storm
major general charles krulak
miracle well
persian gulf
power of prayer
OF BODY AND SOUL: A MINISTRY FOR MODELS
How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel, the Bible says, and it doesn’t hurt to have great legs either, adds New York model Laura Krauss.
March 8 2010
beauty
humility
impact
jeff calenberg
modeling
models for christ
new york models
selfishness
COURSE WORK IN COMPASSION
Although Christine Carr is a year shy of meeting the requirements for a doctorate in education from the University of Maryland, she already has gained major points in courage, charity and compassion through her work with children in Central America.
March 8 2010
central america
compassion
education
heart of the matter
missionaries
nicaragua
orphanage
PRAYER MAKING A COMEBACK, SOME SAY
A prayer movement is under way in America and around the world, and it is sparking a religious revival, said several clerics attending a White House meeting Thursday for the National Day of Prayer.
February 26 2010
concerts of prayer international
national day of prayer
rev. lloyd ogilvie
unity in jesus christ
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR IDOL? ASKS CHRISTIAN SOCIOLOGIST
“Racism-Ethnocentrism has made a comeback in new forms,” says a Christian sociologist who recently organized a conference entitled, “What Color is Your Idol?”
February 26 2010
multiculturalism
racism
sociologist
tony carnes
unity in jesus christ
A CLOSE-UP CRITIQUE ON HOMELESSNESS
Two years ago, Marvin Olasky, a University of Texas journalism professor, went undercover to experience the services available to the homeless and the attitudes that characterize Washington’s social workers. As he moved from shelter to soup kitchen, no one asked for his real name, no one asked about his family, no one asked how he became homeless.
February 26 2010
compassion
gospel mission
homelessness
marvin olasky
poverty
social workers
welfare system
SEX: SAINTS OR SINNERS?
If the soft touch of a red-lipstick kiss on the church flyer didn’t grab the attention of the congregation in Gaithersburg, Md., the title of the sermons did: “Surviving in a Sex-crazed Culture.”
February 26 2010
abstinence
christian counterculture
happy marriage
sex
AMERICAN GETS CALLING TO BRING OPERA ON CHRISTS LIFE TO RUSSIA
Basso Jerome Hines of New York’s Metropolitan Opera was strolling around Red Square in Moscow last summer when he had an inspiration. He said he felt God telling him to bring his opera based on the life of Christ to the famed Bolshoi Theatre.
February 26 2010
bolshoi theatre
christian performing arts fellowship
jerome hines
moscow
opera
patrick kavanaugh
russians
A FAMILY OF MISSIONARIES IN VA. IMBUED WITH A PIONEERING SPIRIT
In the early 1970s, Ted Fletcher met people from all over the world in his travels as national sales manager for the Wall Street Journal. That experience so fed his desire to share his faith with people from other cultures that Fletcher, then 42, resigned from the Journal to pursue his dream of full-time missionary work.
February 26 2010
john fletcher
missionaries
pioneers
ted fletcher
HE HAS A HAMMER
Former President Jimmy Carter is promoting a new form of Christian theology – “the theology of the hammer.”
February 26 2010
grace of god
habitat for humanity
jimmy carter
millard fuller
IN MCLEAN CLASS, THEY LEARN TO ACCEPT GOD’S LOVE
For Jo Starbuck, 41, a marketing coordinator for a computer software company, the class that she started attending in 1986 served as a catalyst for healing. Starbuck said she recalled reading the word “grace” in her Bible 10 years ago, and pondering, “What does this mean?”
February 24 2010
accepting gods love
grace of god
mclean bible church
INTERNATIONAL CHURCH SEEKS TO TEACH GOSPEL TO THE NATIONS
As the speaker went to the lectern at a Washington area hotel, the audience of 70 people from 25 nations prepared to take notes. A woman from Bogota, Colombia, adjusted her headphones to hear the translation. A gathering of the United Nations delegation? An international conference? Or a meeting of ambassadors from various embassies? None of the above.
February 24 2010
foreign mission training
grace international church
international church planting