How Does the Refugee Crisis Affect Europe?
While news clips of pregnant women and children fleeing war tear at everyone’s heart, have you considered how thousands and thousands of undocumented foreigners suddenly pressing through the frontiers change the lives of average citizens in the border countries? The media focuses on the asylum seekers, but they’re not the only innocent victims. How does […]
Five Steps to Building Faith Part II
Though online marketing makes it possible to download about anything we need in a matter of minutes, I’ve yet to find a site offering an amazing, never before seen deal on gigabytes of faith. In last week’s post, I shared the first three steps of a faith-building model that’s worked for me over three decades […]
Five Steps to Building Faith
How many times have you wished you had more faith? If you’re like me, you just want to push your life cart right over to those huge bulk containers off of Aisle Five and scoop out a couple more measures. Okay, no humongous spiritual warehouse exists, but over the decades, I’ve discovered five steps to […]
One Summer Day for African Kids
In 2007, the doors of the Samaritan House Children’s Center opened, changing the lives of dozens of underprivileged kids forever. These small gangs of preschoolers no longer roam the dirt streets in our African city, playing with detritus such as broken razor blades. For the past eight years, they and their older siblings have gone […]
Could Ben Carson Be Right?
US Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson’s comment that Islam is inconsistent with the US Constitution sparked a flurry of public response via news broadcasts and social media. I’ve spent nearly twenty-five years in a country boasting a population that is 95% Muslim, so I am quite familiar with the practices of Islam. Using only the […]