Tag Archives: Jesus

Share The Love Of Jesus With Your Jewish Neighbor

Posted on June 3, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

I grew up as a “Cashew.” For those who are unfamiliar with that term, a "cashew" is a person with one Catholic parent and one Jewish parent. Though in my case, neither of my parents practiced their respective faiths very often. I distinctly remember when I was a child, my mother taking me to church a couple of times on Christmas Eve for midnight Mass. On Jewish holidays, I’d sometimes go over to a cousin’s house the day after Yom Kippur to “break the fast” (even though we never actually fasted…but that was not brought up).

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty | Tagged Apostle Paul, Cashew, Catholic, christian, Jesus, Jew, Keith Green, Mass, Messiah, ministry, missionaries, Ordo Missionis, Share The Love Of Jesus With Your Jewish Neighbor, Yom Kippur | Comments Off

A Love Like No Other

Posted on May 13, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

This Sunday, Americans will celebrate another Mother’s Day. Since everyone has a mother, it’s an important proposition to honor them. Biblical, too. You know, “honor your father and mother” is one of the Big Ten.

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life | Tagged A Love Like No Other, Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, American Mothers Inc., Aria Lamen, Caron Lamen, Illinois Mother of the Year, Jesus, Kendra Smiley, Live Life Intentionally, Mary, Mother of the Year: 365 Days of Encouragement for Devoted Moms, Mother's Day, Proverbs 31 woman, Rachel Ternstrom, Tracie Whalen | Comments Off

Cohabitation—Preparation for Divorce?

Posted on February 21, 2022 by David E Smith

Marriage is a gift from God. But marriage is in a sad state in America today, and we all suffer because of it.

I read recently about the movie star Joan Crawford who was legendary in her promiscuity. As her rival Bette Davis once reportedly sneered about her, “She slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie.”

Apparently, in the miserable and difficult childhood of Lucille LeSouer (who later adopted the name Joan Crawford), there was a wound from the absence of her father, according to Shaun Considine’s book, Bette and Joan, which became the basis for …

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Bette Davis, Bill Federer, Brad Wilcox, Claudius II, cohabitation, Divorce, Family Research Center, Family Research Council, Jesus, Joan Crawford, living in sin, Lucille LeSouer, Lyman Stone, Marriage, MGM, National Survey of Family Growth, Shaun Considine, St. Valentine, UCLA, Wall Street Journal | Comments Off

Abortion Is a Spiritual Battle

Posted on February 7, 2022 by David E Smith

I write this shortly after the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (and its companion decision, Doe v. Bolton) of January 22, 1973, that gave us abortion on demand. And here we are 63 million abortions later. That’s nothing to celebrate—but much to mourn.

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged 40 Days for Life, Abortion, baby, Bible, brephos, Death, Doe v. Bolton, Golden Rule, Jeremiah, Jesus, Planned Parenthood, Roe v. Wade, Ronald Reagan | Comments Off

Illinois’ Woke School Mandate Garners National Condemnation

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Benjamin D. Smith

Our notorious Illinois lawmakers must really want to hasten the exit from Illinois public schools and the state. A woke committee created by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) concocted a partisan amendment to the ISBE teacher standards. The amendment is called “Culturally Responsive Teaching. The wokesters are trying to strengthen their iron grip on the hearts and minds of Illinois children by requiring government schools to disseminate leftist beliefs about identity politics—beliefs that derive from Critical Race Theory/Critical Theory and which inform BLM and the 1619 Project.

Posted in Education | Tagged 1619 Project, Andrew Klavan, Caesar, Christ-followers, Christianity, Illinois State Board of Education, Illinois State Board of Elections, ISBE, ISBE wokesters, Jesus, National Review | Comments Off

Hail Satan?

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Kathy Valente

It seems like Satan is getting a lot of “positive nods” in the last couple of months. In December, the Secretary of State’s office at the Illinois Capital in Springfield allowed the Satanic Temple in Chicago to add a monument, which was placed next to the Nativity Scene for Christmas and the Menorah to mark Hanukkah.

Posted in Faith | Tagged Christian Bale, Dick Cheney, Franklin Graham, Jesus, Nativity Scene, Satan, Satanic Temple | Comments Off

Faithless Faith Leaders Protest Jeanette Ward’s FB Post

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Benjamin D. Smith

A new controversy has erupted in School District U-46, and this time it doesn’t involve compulsory co-ed locker rooms or offensive statements from board member Traci O’Neal Ellis. This time 18 religious leaders have objected to school board member Jeanette Ward’s Facebook post about a controversial article on religion assigned in a sixth-grade class.

Posted in Education, Faith | Tagged Allah, Christianity, David Daubert, Dr. Nathaniel Edmond, Dr. Paris Donehoo, Ed Hunter, Fred Rajan, George Wadleigh, Islam, Jeanette Ward, Jesus, Jill Terpstra, Judaism, Karen Schlack, Katie Shaw Thompson, Lois Bucher, Margaret Frisch Klein, Mark Weinert, Marlene Daubert, Philip Almond, Rev. Denise Tracy, Rev. Donald J. Frye, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Richard T. Carlson, School District U-46, Steven J. Peskind, Sulayman Hassan, Traci O’Neal Ellis, Veronica Noland | Comments Off