by Staff | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog
A group of pro-life advocates presented Gov. Beshear with over 10,000 petition signatures asking him to close down EMW Women’s Clinic in Louisville. They point out that 627 children have been aborted in Kentucky between March 1 to April 21. During the same time...
by Staff | Apr 28, 2020 | Blog
Kentucky lags behind Tennessee in the number of people tested for COVID-19. As of last week, Tennessee tested approximately 110,000 residents while Kentucky has tested about 33,000. Interestingly, Tennessee has had fewer deaths: 157 compared to Kentucky’s 171 as...
by Staff | Apr 27, 2020 | Blog
There’s good news regarding the fight against COVID-19 and it comes from right here in the Commonwealth. Researchers at the University of Louisville have made a breakthrough and developed a technology that appears to block the coronavirus from infecting human...
by Staff | Apr 24, 2020 | Blog
Rahm Emmanual said “you never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Now, I don’t subscribe to his political worldview, but we know that in a time of...
by Staff | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog
On Wednesday, the Kentucky legislature passed a last-minute bill classifying abortion as an elective surgical procedure. This was a response to Gov. Beshear’s executive order requiring the closure of non-essential surgical centers all across the Commonwealth....
by Staff | Apr 22, 2020 | Blog
It’s Earth Day today. Fifty years ago, environmentalists founded the first Earth Day. They brought the issue of pollution and ecological degradation to our attention. After all, Earth is our common home and we all want clean air and clean water. Critics of the...
by Staff | Apr 21, 2020 | Blog
I’ve been on the phone with pastors across the state recently and a common concern I’m hearing is Gov. Beshear’s tone toward the church hasn’t been very positive. This comes from multiple phone conversations I’ve had with pastors from...
by Staff | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog
A federal judge upheld a Louisville church’s religious freedom. Just before Easter, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer ordered Louisville churches to not have drive-in services. At the same time, he allowed other drive-through services at restaurants and liquor...
by Staff | Apr 17, 2020 | Blog
CPC’s Director of Church Outreach, Bob Scott interviews this month’s spotlighted pastor, Kyle Reeder. Bob: Tell us a little about you. What led you to become a pastor? Kyle: I am forty-one years old. I am the husband of fourteen years to my wife...
by Staff | Apr 17, 2020 | Blog
Some may be tempted to look at the relatively low numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases in Kentucky. (There are less than 1500 cases and 80 deaths) and criticize the authorities for being overly aggressive. However, public health experts project over 100,000 deaths....
by Staff | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog
Pro-lifers who argue that abortion clinics should be closed along with other non-essential surgical centers got a boost from a Texas Appeals Court. The court ruled that the state has the authority to close abortion centers to slow the spread of the coronavirus. This...
by Staff | Apr 15, 2020 | Blog
The purpose of government is generally to do for a society what individuals cannot do on their own. Defending its borders, building roads, and coining money are a few of the main functions of our government. Another is to preserve public health when threatened by a...
by Staff | Apr 14, 2020 | Blog
During times of crisis, the government can provide leadership, but it cannot do everything. It needs help from the private sector. Consider that the American businesses are responding well to address the needs of the coronavirus pandemic. The company MyPillow is...
by Staff | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog
Zoom is a popular virtual meeting resource, but be careful! A recent conference call held on Zoom by South Central Kentucky and Community and Technical College was interrupted by an appearance of a pornographic video. It’s known as a “Zoom bombing.” The...
by Staff | Apr 10, 2020 | Blog
It’s Good Friday today, the day when Christians around the world remember the crucifixion of Jesus. And this Sunday is Easter Sunday, the day Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. It’s normally one of the most attended church services of the...
by Staff | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog
Florida pastor Rodney Howard-Browne violated a state order to forgo large meetings and was arrested for holding a church service last week. While it wasn’t a good look for the government to arrest a pastor, the intention wasn’t to stop the spread of the...
by Staff | Apr 8, 2020 | Blog
Unemployment numbers continue to increase. New people applying for unemployment benefits totaled 6.648 million. This doubled the record set the previous week. Some analysts say that number of those actually unemployed may be even higher. That’s because several...
by Staff | Apr 7, 2020 | Blog
The Kentucky legislature passed a one year budget and did so in an unusual fashion. They voted from their offices and away from their colleagues. This is the ultimate form of leading by example as governmental leaders practiced social distancing. The legislature...
by Staff | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog
Considering our increasing cultural drift away from the reality of our Creator in recent years, God has our full attention in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. We all have plenty of time to contemplate the most important things in life: our relationship with God...
by Staff | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have recommended that all health care facilities reschedule elective surgeries until after the COVID-19 pandemic slows. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has followed the advisement with one...
