I wanted to take an opportunity this week to compliment some of our students for answering a few challenges that have been placed before them. The first one is the significant increase in the number of students who have been bringing their Bibles with them to class.
Several months ago, I noted that in a class [...]

With “Black Friday” less than a week away, I wanted to take this opportunity to remind everyone about our annual iChristmas campaign. Here is what has been previously announced:
The ARISE Ministry will once again be celebrating iChristmas. This is an opportunity to live out the true meaning of Christmas. Here is the challenge to our [...]

This morning while I was sitting in a hospital waiting room, I watched a little bit of the television show The View. They were discussing an interview with Sarah Palin and her reflections on her youngest child, who was born with Down’s Syndrome.
Much of the conversation centered around abortion, Palin’s pro-life stance, and a woman’s [...]

As we have been learning Jesus through Luke’s Gospel, Jesus passionately cares about those who society often forgets about or ignores. In Luke 4, as he begins his ministry, Jesus stands in the synagogue and reads this passage from Isaiah 61:1-2:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
[...]

What does it mean to lay down your life? In the Gospel of John, Jesus uses this phrase to describe real friendship.
We might think about the cross as the ultimate embodiment of this idea. And we would be right. But what does it mean for us as Christians? For many we would think of martyrs [...]