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...
by Staff | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog
The U.S. is facing a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) due to panic stemming from the novel coronavirus outbreak. People are hoarding hand sanitizer and face masks which has led to a shortage for citizens and healthcare providers. Unfortunately, some...
by Staff | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog
Pres. Trump recently called for a “National Day of Prayer” amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic appears to be a plague of Biblical proportions and a call for prayer from our nation’s top leader is fitting. Trump isn’t the first president to...
by Staff | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought our economy to a halt and resulted in massive job losses. More than three million Americans filed an unemployment claim. This is a surge of 1500 percent within two weeks and also the highest number of unemployment claims ever recorded...
by Staff | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog
One of the problems in a time of crisis is that panic leads to anxiety and anxiety leads to the spread of bad information. Some of that bad information, pushed by leading Democrats including presidential contender Joe Biden, is that the U.S wasn’t prepared for a...
by Staff | Mar 27, 2020 | Blog
According to a Pew Forum Survey a few years ago 76 percent of Kentuckians identify as Christians. Yet one of the great challenges for many Kentuckians is how to live out their faith in public. But with the coronavirus, there are several opportunities. Jesus said the...
by Staff | Mar 26, 2020 | Blog
The coronavirus is not the first plague to hit our world and we are not the first people to endure such hardship. Martin Luther spoke of Christian response to the Black Death which resurfaced in Europe in the early 1500s. Luther said “if a deadly epidemic...
by Staff | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog
Some have been angry with the extreme measure the government has taken to stop the spread of the coronavirus. That decision has been taken out of our hands, but in the meantime, what are you doing to help alleviate the crisis? If you have your health, be thankful, but...
by Staff | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused panic. All Kentucky schools and restaurants are closed at least until April. The Kentucky primary election has been postponed until June 23. And there’s a general sense of anxiety. The elderly and those with compromised immunity,...
by Staff | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought on panic. People are raiding grocery stores and hoarding toilet paper, medicines, and disinfectants, leaving shelves bare. It should go without saying that panic isn’t helpful in times of crisis....
by Staff | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog
Civility has been stretched to its limits. Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca who supported a tweet that suggested opponents of Pres. Trump should attend Make America Great Again rallies and infect Trump supporters with the coronavirus. Ms. CdeBaca tweeted...
by Staff | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog
Asbury University, a conservative Christian college near Lexington, is under fire from news media outlets because it fired two LGBT-affirming professors. The political cartoon in the Lexington Herald-Leader had a rainbow leading to Asbury and it said: The end of the...
by Staff | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog
The Kentucky state legislature is considering several hundred bills. One bill sets higher penalties for sexual assaults while traveling in a taxi. Another bill creates stiffer penalties for those who assault referees. Yet another bill increases penalties for adults...
by Staff | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog
There’s been a big push to allow young children to determine their own gender these days. And if one California lawmaker has his way, he’d force stores that sell children’s items to remain gender-neutral. State Rep. Evan Low proposed a bill that...
by Staff | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog
Kentuckians’ approval of marijuana as medicine is at an all-time high. Ahem, no pun intended. According to a recently released poll by Kentucky Health Issues, 9 out of 10 Kentuckians favored legalizing medical marijuana. The strong poll numbers are fueled by...
