June 13, 2011
By Bill Johnson
I had a season in my ministry where I was speaking weekly in churches wherever opportunities arose. I entitled my message “Holiness: God’s desire for His people”.
It was a very straight forward message. One of its elements consisted of the question “How can we say we are Christians and yet place before ourselves wicked things?” [Psalm 101:3a – I will place no evil thing before my eyes?]
I would often mention different television programs that were becoming popular at the time and give a careful description of some of the program themes and then name particular shows that were garnering a large following like “Desperates Housewives”, Grey’s Anatomy”, “Life as We Know It”, etc..
My great burden was increasingly becoming that Christians were accepting that which was unacceptable to the Lord because they were watching the same thing everyone else was watching.
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May 5, 2011
Today is the National Day of Prayer or as some of us know it, “Meet at City Hall.”
Many of us have read or heard details regarding the origination of The National Day of Prayer, but many have not heard of the origin of Meet at City Hall.
Meet at City Hall came from the heart and mind of Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, founder and former long time president of American Family Association.
Wildmon unfolded the idea/concept of “Meet at City Hall” back in the late 1980s as I recall.
It was created to encourage Christians to take their faith/spirituality out into the highways and byways of life, into the marketplace, to the local city hall if need be; to not hide our light under a bushel, but to let it shine.
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April 13, 2011
By: Chris Johnson
On the back page of Monday’s Muskegon Chronicle newspaper’s “Local/Region” section, this headline draws the eye: Spring Lake ’spiritual community’ C3Exchange in financial trouble.
That headline prompts the question, “what is a C3Exchange and out of all the businesses going south, why is it news that this one is trouble?”
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