The History of “Casting Crowns” Casting Crowns is a very well-known Christian rock band which has a sincere heart to glorify Jesus Christ and spread His Word to a lost world. They started in 1999 with Mark Hall as their founder and lead singer. Mark Hall is the main songwriter ...

If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.    JOHN STEINBECK, letter to Adlai Stevenson, Nov. 5, 1959 It’s hard to believe that a child’s stuffed toy can point one towards simplicity and ...

Addiction effects the entire family. After recovery or even during recovery, the family will face consequences of the addict’s poor choices such as financial difficulties and health problems due to the chronic stress of dealing with an addict. When a family member who is in recovery comes back into the ...

Sometimes I just hate computers and everything that involves computers! I spent all of the last week going around and around with three different computer/program-related problems. First off, I was having trouble with my e-mail that was venting off somewhere into cyberspace after I transferred my domain name from one ...

In my last article, I posted a user-friendly list of questions (suggested by Shannon Ethridge) that make telling your HIS-tory with Jesus a simpler process.  Plugging your specific details into the answers to three easy questions makes for a beautiful testimony of God’s redeeming power.  I know it will give ...

God’s Word was here before the beginning of time. God and His Word are so intertwined that God honors His Word above His name. His Word is very important to Him because He cannot lie and every prophetic Word He has ever spoken will surely come to pass. (Prophecies that ...

The older generation may remember a television commercial decades ago when hamburger fast-food chains were opening. It featured an elderly lady driving up to the window and yelling, “Where’s the beef?” Today, many Christians should be asking, “Where’s the doctrine?” To call oneself a Christian, doctrine does matter. But sometimes ...

False Evidence Appearing Real Often, this is what fear is:  something vague, somewhere in the distance, something deceptive that seems so real to our emotions.   We fear the very thought of so many dreadful things that could happen, though most will never materialize. The thought “what if” often brings with ...

This last month of my life has been like a whirlwind. I have had major changes come into my life–good changes but they have disrupted my normal routine. I have tried so desperately to connect to God this month, but I have been consumed with the cares of this life. ...

Have you ever had a Bible verse or passage jump out at you? I certainly have, and most of the time, it’s a verse or passage that I know I’ve read a hundred times or more. And I find myself wondering, How in the world did I miss that? It’s ...