Why is Christmas the World’s Most Celebrated Holiday? Part 1

In thirteen days, three-quarters of the world will celebrate Christmas–the world’s largest holiday.  Over 2 billion people will worship the One whose birth it honors.

Why is Christmas the most celebrated holiday? Because there is no one who has influenced the world more than Jesus of Nazareth.

Over the next few weeks I’d like to re-share some thoughts on why Jesus is so special. I will add some material from my new book–River of God: Where Religion Began and Why Grace and Love Will Triumph which debuts in February, 2018.

Christmas is the biggest because there is no one like Jesus.

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Surveying the Culture War Battlefields

The past three weeks I’ve focused on the threat of organized evil in the United States and other nations in the 21st century. We appear ripe for such a revolution due to our deficit of character and decline of faith.

This clash of civilizations is a culture war because it pits the Judeo-Christian view of life with its emphasis on God, faith, family and freedom against secular priorities of Big Government, skepticism, family breakdown/re-definition and economic socialism. Read More

Media War: My Advice to the President, the Press & the People

Like most people, I’ve been sickened by the recent media war between President Trump and CNN (and the rest of the liberal media at large).

I hope the feud settles down this Fourth of July as we remember the birth of our nation 241 years ago. As one author termed it, the emergence of the USA in 1776 was a “5000 year leap forward” in liberty and civil government.

That’s worth celebrating.

The media war is a huge step backwards. Who is to blame? What is to be done? Here’s my perspective and advice to Donald Trump, the American press, and the people of the United States. Read More