Transforming our Community through Spiritual Awakening Beneath the charming midwestern veneer of Shiawassee county lies an insidious plague of addictions that suffocates life from our neighbors, friends, and family. These walking dead imprisoned by addiction pass us each day. Today, an opiate-addicted mother picked up her children from school. Today, an alcohol-intoxicated man drove his [...]
By Dr. Douglas Levesque BibleNation.org Saul was converted to Christianity and became Paul the Apostle while traveling on the road to Damascus. The voice of the Lord Himself spoke to Paul and told him to go into that city. Paul was baptized in Damascus and immediately preached to the people there. It was, after Jerusalem, [...]
By Dr. Douglas Levesque BibleNation.org Religious liberty in early America meant the freedom from a state sponsored, nationally mandated church. Roman Catholicism and the Church of England were examples of such religious authorities ultimately persecuting other forms of Christian expression. Biblical Christianity that differed from the state endorsed expressions of faith was often deemed heresy, [...]
Christian Community Leaders are key to Virtuous Society By Dr. Douglas Levesque BibleNation.org With America’s affluence, proven institutions, and great heritage, why is our society so broken today? Are we more moral or less moral? Has racism increased or decreased? Is there less corruption? Less confusion? Less chaos? Are we headed in the right [...]
Michigan Association of Christian Schools Division II State Champions After finishing the conference schedule with a 14-0 record, the Immanuel Baptist School varsity boys basketball team won the Michigan Association of Christian Schools Division II State Championship for the second time in 4 seasons. After a tough loss in the State Championship last season, Coach [...]
by Dr. Phil Stringer Author of Transformation Matthew 6:22-23 says: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be [...]
“Father Knows Best” has somehow been replaced by “Modern Family” By Dr. Douglas Levesque BibleNation.org Father Knows Best has somehow been replaced by Modern Family. The Biblical and natural nuclear family comprised of father, mother, and children has been undermined by wholesale divorce, remarriage, step families, and multicultural acceptance. While great sympathies can be had [...]
by Dr. Phil Stringer Author of Transformation Professor L.R. Agnew of the UCLA School of Medicine relates the story of when he posed this question to his students: “Here is the family history. The father has syphilis. The mother has tuberculosis. They have already had four children. The first one is blind, the second one [...]
Huxley’s Amazingly Accurate Prophecies of American Politics By Dr. Douglas Levesque BibleNation.org The headline is not The Art of the Deal , the bestselling biography and how-to book by our new entertainer President, Donald Trump. It is a chapter title of Aldous Huxley’s own commentary on his bestselling and iconic novel Brave New World. That [...]
Cultural warfare threatens the death of community virtue By Dr. Phil Stringer Author of Transformation The term “Culture War” has become common in describing contemporary American life and politics. Robert P. Dugan, Jr. (National Association of Evangelicals) said: “We are in the midst of raging ‘Kultur-kampf’, a cultural war to determine the ways of thinking, [...]
