Christianity for Today 2

Every once-in-awhile I receive an article that just speaks so strongly to truth and the reality of our times that appears so obvious yet it is stumbled over.  Yesterday I received such an article from a dear friend of mine.  The article was written by a college student who is in graduate school working on her MBA.  Her name is Alyssa Ahlgren.  This is an article worthy of posting on a refrigerator door just to remind us, when we are prone to complain, of how we are so blessed.  She titled her article, "My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!" "I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about.  I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to 'fix' the so-called injustices of capitalism.  I put my phone down and continue to look around.  I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in a...

The political season is now officially started.  Last night President Trump announced his bid for re-election to an enthusiastic, overflowing crowd that numbered nearly twenty thousand in Orlando, Florida.  And next week the Democrats will host two political debates with the two dozen candidates that are running in that party's primary campaign.  The media will have its usual bias, putting the Trump campaign under the microscope, while looking at the Democratic candidates as through a telescope.  What a challenge it will be these next few months to listen carefully, wisely, and prayerfully to the speeches given and the reports written about all the candidates.  These are not days to become disengaged. Meanwhile, things continue to heat-up in the Middle East.  Iran is demonstrating that it is a rogue nation, bowing to no one's wishes and determining to have its own way.  The increased sanctions placed upon Iran by the United States and others, especia...

This Sunday is celebrated as Father's Day.  It is one day a year in which we give honor to our Dads.  When I was a boy growing up, fathers were heroes to many of us.  Even the mainstream entertainment industry prided itself on programs that depicted the father-figure as being the problem-solver, the efficient provider, and the head of the home.  I remember such programs as "My Three Sons," one of the first television shows depicting a single-parent home.  Its star, Fred MacMurray, was the mainstay in a home filled with three growing boys.  And there was the very popular television program "Father Knows Best."  And, even his own way, Fred Flintstone was hailed as a dad whose focus was upon his family.  But in recent decades, the role of father has come upon hard times.  We live in a world of absentee fathers.  In a recent article written by Willie Richardson and posted at: www.patriotpost.us/articles/63578-dads-make-the-difference , the...

Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of D-Day.  On that day, June 6, 1944, thousands of American and Allied forces landed on five beaches along the Normandy Coast of France.  This was the beginning of the final assault upon Adolph Hitler and the Nazi German forces that had held nearly the entirety of Europe in its clutches for almost five years.  Thousands of lives were lost as men struggled toward the beaches and then attempted to scale the heights along the coast.  Paratroopers who had parachuted behind German lines successfully destroyed bridges which kept the Germans from getting reinforcements to the battlefront.  And, at the end of the day, the Germans were pushed back - the beginning of a retreat that would be finalized in another eleven months.  Yes, there would be other battles.  Yes, many more American lives would be lost.  But the tide of World War II was turned that June 6th day seventy-five years ago.  Tomorrow is another opportunity...