The June 15th edition of the USA Today carried a front page article entitled “Can rap regain its crown?With declining sales and rising concerns about its quality and ‘gangsta’ image,” the article began, “hip-hop is in crisis.
Full Story »Tell the Vision
A study conducted by the Culture and Media Institute has confirmed what we already knew: those who describe themselves as heavy watchers of television (four hours or more a day) are less likely to be engaged with or even aware of the culture or community around them.
Full Story »The Old and the New Jerry Falwell
Jerry Falwell has made a number of transitions in his fruitful ministry. Few people had heard of Jerry Falwell prior to 1979. His Thomas Road Baptist Church was his mission in life. In a sermon delivered in 1965, entitled “Ministers and Marchers,” Falwell said:
Full Story »John MacArthur’s Prophetic Confusion
I just received a book notice from Moody Press for a new commentary on Revelation by John MacArthur with the title Because the Time is Near.
Full Story »Who Wants to be “Smarter than a 5th Grader?”
The television game show is a format that never seems to go away. Just when you thought it was permanently relegated to the daytime daypart, Who Wants to be a Millionaire brought it back to primetime.
Full Story »Gnosticism, the Soul-Only “Gospel,” and the End Times
A prominent end-time advocate writes that “the church is not in the business of taking anything away from Satan but the souls of men.” This person also believes that working to change culture and society is outside of God’s redemptive plan, believing that Satan has control of this world until Jesus returns and vanquishes him.
Full Story »A Sea Change
As the ocean receded nearly half a mile from the shore along the coast of Thailand and Indonesia on December 26, 2004, many tourists and natives followed it out in amazement to look for shells. Unfortunately, they did not recognize the danger until it was too late,
Full Story »Christians Should Be Revolutionary Too
Recently, an extremely large amount of innovation has entered the video game industry in ways that have not been seen since their introduction in the 1970s. Who has ushered in this new innovation? Christians? Not at all. We are again at the back of society in something that is so mainstream we would be foolish to ignore it.
Full Story »Leaving a Legacy
For the past few days, I’ve been in Orlando, Florida, attending the National Religious Broadcasters convention. The last time I attended was about 15 years ago. Most of my time has been spent meeting with other ministries that share a similar vision with American Vision.
Full Story »The Myth of Objectivity
The winners of any contest, whether intellectual, political, or military, work very hard to formulate the history of the conflict so their side of the story is told in the best possible light. As one might expect, there is a great deal of bias in the way history is reported. In order to put the historical accounting in the best possible light for those who are reading the history for the first time, sometimes the facts are manipulated just enough to reinforce the impression that the right side did indeed win the contest and left the opposition in the dust.
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