FSBCA is in a neighborhood of increasing poverty. Sometimes, people are poor due to circumstances totally beyond their control. Sickness or injury hits and destroys earning potential. Medical bills destroy savings and lead to debt. Layoffs hit and new jobs are hard to come by. But many times (maybe even...
I received another good question this week. This question is particularly timely considering the news that Arizona executed a man last week by lethal injection. The two hours it took for the man to die has caused a lot of argument, finger-pointing, and rethinking of the death penalty. The question...
I am not a politician, just a believer who has many deeply held political beliefs based on my faith in Jesus and my love for my country. Most of the time, I keep my political beliefs quiet, because I am much more interested in sharing my faith in Jesus than...
I am often on Facebook and Twitter. For the most part, I enjoy using social media, and I use them for fun, to communicate with people who are important to me, and to promote my faith, beliefs, thoughts, actions, politics, and even my favorite sports teams. While online, I am...
Guns have been high on the list of controversial issues in recent months. Some lawmakers are proposing new restrictions on gun ownership, while others just as ardently defend our Second Amendment rights, and there is a great deal of anger on both sides. Personally, I don’t believe that any of the proposed legal solutions...
As many of you know, I recently completed a four month stint on a Maricopa County Grand Jury. A Grand Jury is different from a trial jury. Instead of determining guilt or innocence in just one case, we were determining probable cause for many cases and then issuing indictments when...
Note: I’m purposely writing this post before I know the results of the election. Although I have strong opinions about politics and I take my role as a voter very seriously, I have not publicly declared for either candidate. My comments apply, no matter which of the two men win...
A news article arrested my attention this morning. It featured a Chicago Funeral Director proclaiming “These Kids Don’t Expect To Live a Full Life” anymore. In his neighborhood, violence and murder are so common that many kids he talks to expect to die young in a violent death. It’s just part of their...
It’s a dirty little secret that really isn’t much of a secret, but our denomination (the Southern Baptist Convention) was formed in a region and in an era of extreme racial prejudice. Many of our churches openly practiced discrimination and segregation for years, and many of our churches were on the...
When terrorists attacked the World Trade towers, Americans rightly called upon Muslim leaders to condemn the acts, since the terrorists were followers of Islam. And there was a considerable amount of consternation when the condemnations weren’t forthcoming or when they were couched in guarded terms. My respect for those leaders...
