David Jeremiah: Church has become “entertainment-driven social organization“
John MacArthur: “Evangelicals of our generation seem pathologically addicted to the sin of desiring the praise of men.”
- Pete Wehner: The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity
In Tweet, Liberty University’s President Jerry Falwell, Jr. asserts “my job is to keep LU successful academically, financially and in athletics” and not “strong spiritually.”
- Political Scientist Hunter Baker joins Paul for perspective on Jerry Falwell, Jr.’s tweet
Michael W. Smith, Kevin Jonas launch Liberty University Music Label
- “The goal is to also establish Liberty nationally as the “focal point for the training and equipping of commercial musicians for the industry.”
- Michael W. Smith Center for Commercial Music
- Targeting mainstream market: “What I tell my students is it doesn’t matter what kind of music you’re going to go into, God’s called you to take worship to the nations.”
- “[Kevin Jonas] has relationships with people who can be a Christian but still be on the pop side.”
- Building $2M recording studio
- G(H)OAT: The Greatest Hymn of All Time
- NOT Amazing Grace
- The Hymn Tournament
- BARNA: The most post-Christian cities in the United States
- 16 criteria which identify a lack of Christian identity, belief and practice
- Top 8 on East Coast
- New poll shows growing view that clergy are irrelevant
- “Comparable to lawyers, who rank near the bottom”
Mariano Rivera HOF Induction: “I want to start this thanking my good Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for giving me the talent and the blessing, opening doors I could never close – and no man can close…Thank you, Lord, for everything you have done in my life.”
- VIDEO
- History: Unanimously elected on the first ballot
- NY MAGAZINE: Saved
- “Everything I have and everything I became is because of the strength of the Lord, and through him I have accomplished everything. Not because of my strength. Only by his love, his mercy, and his strength.”
- “The fact that his gifts come from God increases his obligation to honor them with the hard work and discipline for which he is famous, he says. When Rivera botches a save, it’s his failure—but it’s also part of God’s mysterious plan.”
- Is America’s Favorite Pastime Past Its Time?
- 2019 attendance ranked by team
- How MLB is losing its appeal in the modern era
- 2013: Is baseball still the National Pastime?
- NYT: Anxious Democratic Governors Urge 2020 Candidates Not to Veer Too Far to the Left
- David Brooks: Dems, Please Don’t Drive Me Away
- Mayor Pete and the Resurrection of the Religious Left
- Calvinist Christian nationalism is making moves
- WSJ: America’s Nationalist Awakening
- “The circumstances that gave rise to today’s nationalist awakening, at least in the West, have nothing to do with suppressing minorities or invading foreign lands. Instead, the new nationalism is a revolt against the failures and weaknesses of modern nation-states. It is neither intolerant nor triumphalist but rather is defensive, grounded in well-justified apprehensions of political and institutional decline.”
NY TIMES: Neil Armstrong’s Death and the Secret $6M Settlement
- The astronaut’s sons believed incompetent medical care cost him his life.
- DETROIT FREE PRESS: Apartments on the site where Tiger Stadium once stood are finished
- “… factory-built modular units, which were shipped by trailer and lifted into place.”
- Two Bedroom: $2,730/month
- Condos: $512,000
