What Are You Relying On?
People today like to think of themselves as being independent. But who really is? Most people depend on money, jobs, other people or material things to make them happy. Or they become dependent on drugs or alcohol and so make a shambles of life and relationships. We all depend on something; why not depend on the only One who can give eternal, abundant life and true satisfaction?
A Message by Billy Graham
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House Ways and Means Republicans on Thursday assailed a provision in the proposed health care reform bill under consideration this week. Subcommittee on Oversight ranking member Charles Boustany (R-La.) said the IRS provision in the bill "dangerously expands, in an ominous way the tentacles of the IRS and it's reach into every American family," he said today during a press conference.
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President Barack Obama has said he wants to focus laser-like on the public's top concern: jobs. But the ongoing effort to remake the nation's health care system keeps getting in the way.
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Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thieves.
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The U.S. House of Representatives is set to hold a crucial vote on Sunday on sweeping health care reform legislation. President Barack Obama has postponed his planned Asia-Pacific trip to Indonesia and Australia for a second time to be in Washington, D.C. as Congress votes on his top domestic priority after a year of debate and wrangling.
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President Obama gave a thumbs up Thursday to the outline of a plan to legalize illegal immigrants and create a flow of low-skilled foreign workers for the future, saying the immigration bill being worked on by a Republican and a Democrat is "promising."
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Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.
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Though a host of technical glitches has undermined the effectiveness of a virtual fence securing the U.S. border, Republicans who are tough on border security appear conflicted by the Homeland Security Department's decision to divert cash away from the multibillion-dollar program.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stated his case before Congress Wednesday that the Fed should retain supervision of all U.S. banks and not just those institutions that are too big to fail. The Fed chief spoke before the House Financial Services Committee as new efforts to overhaul the nation's financial regulations get underway.
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Nearly one-third of all practicing physicians may leave the medical profession if President Obama signs current versions of health-care reform legislation into law, according to a survey published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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For the second time in six months, the city has ordered a group of Christian worshippers who meet inside homes to get a permit or shut down.
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’t look good at all. Four hours after I got to the hospital to be with the family, he died... his wife asked me a question as we stood in that hospital waiting room: “They say God won’t put on you more than you can bear. But, does God know when you’re hanging on by a thread?”
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When your plans fall apart, it doesn't necessarily mean God wasn't in them. It may just be time to consider Plan B.
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Proverbs offers the simplest, yet most profound, daily spiritual "pick-me-ups" to be found in all the Bible.
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What circumstances are you experiencing right now? Provision? Losing it all, like Job? Are you between a rock and a hard place or The Rock and a hard place? Will you curse? Will you kneel? Will you sing?
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“pro-life” Democrats to hold firm for Sunday's historic House vote on health care, said the head of a leading anti-abortion group Saturday.
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Tens of thousands of immigrant rights advocates are expected to march through Washington, D.C., on Sunday in support of immigration reform.
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After drawing fire earlier this month for equating social justice with communism, Fox News host Glenn Beck doesn't plan to back away from the polarizing debate.
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“Facing the Giants” and “Fireproof.”
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Persecution watchdogs are setting the record straight regarding the recent slaughter of Christians in Nigeria.
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Some 45,000 Christians across the Dominican Republic have been hosting "mini evangelistic crusades" over the past couple of days.
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Despite there being a clear link between malaria investment and death prevention, funding of programs to fight the disease remains far too short to fulfill Millennium Development Goals and other global commitments and even threatens the progress made to date, according to a network of more than 500 anti-malaria groups.
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The largest Lutheran denomination in the country on Thursday released a draft social statement on genetics. It is intended to provide a framework for discussing such topics as stem cell research and cloning.
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We know that most women who have an abortion say they are motivated by worry they cannot afford to raise a baby. If they do not have health insurance, that worry surely increases.
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A college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will no longer be affiliated with the denomination after its sale this summer to a for-profit company.
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’ Saravan Province on Thursday visited 48 Christians expelled from Katin village and assured them that they had the legal right to embrace the faith of their choice, according to advocacy group Human Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom (HRWLRF).
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Americans would do well to consider the consequences of embracing political leaders who view certain segments of society as disposable
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Should we use genetically modified crops to keep third world populations from starving? Your answer depends on your worldview.
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’ve gone back through a lot of my Paul Tripp books–he’s such a huge gift to the church!
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The "Slaughter Rule" allows congressional members to claim that they didn't actually vote for the bill when they face citizens in their districts. But that kind of hocus-pocus is not going to work.
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’s hard to pray for statistics. It’s much easier to pray for people. It’s even easier when we remember the close connection between Christ and his suffering followers. Jesus said when we reach out to them, we are helping him.
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The issues raised by his comments and the resultant controversy are worthy of our most careful thinking and most earnest struggle. Serious-minded Christians cannot move on from this issue so quickly.
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