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If you are wealthy professional, Gateway Church in Southlake, TX wants you. According to Associate Senior Pastor Bobby Bogard, Gateway has been given a “grace lane” by God to consider rich professionals as the bullseye for their recruitment efforts. Bogard told this to a group of pastors in January…
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June 11, 1787 Summary: Today, the delegates voted on the 3/5 clause. They passed it with minimal discussion but revisited it on July 12 when discussion of taxation took place. Again Britain was a model for Roger Sherman from CT. Mr. SHERMAN proposed, that the proportion of suffrage in the…
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From multiple sources inside Gateway Church, I have learned that one of the topics of the monthly staff chapel several days ago was the recent layoffs at Gateway. In the meeting, a leader said the layoffs were a healthy “pruning.” Although I am aware that some of the support staff have…
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May 9, 1787 Summary: On this day in the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry from MA proposed to require the chief executive be elected by the state governors (state executives). This proposal failed. The remainder of the time was spent debating how to fairly represent the small states in a national…
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What do Illinois Family Institute’s Laurie Higgins, National Review’s David French, fellow Patheos blogger Hemant Mehta (The Friendly Atheist) and I have in common? We all believe Bernie Sanders was out of line to say he will vote against Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director nominee Russ Vought…
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June 8, 1787 Summary: The delegates decided that all state laws were not subject to veto by the National Legislature. In the debate over the Constitution, a major need was to balance state and national power and authority. Some delegates leaned toward making states weak in comparison to the federal…
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June 7, 1787 Summary: The delegates focused on how to elect the Senate today. Eventually, they decided that state legislatures should do it. As has been the pattern thus far, delegates relied on Britain and the ancient republics as inspiration. Mr. DICKINSON had two reasons for his motion — first,…
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Country Mill Farms and legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom is suing the City of East Lansing with a claim of religious discrimination. According to the complaint, the City of East Lansing acted to exclude “a farmer whose family farm is twenty-two miles outside the City from participating in its city-run…
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This is the same news as I reported yesterday but with a twist. The organization which funnels money from all over the world to India — Gospel for Asia — is at the center of two racketeering and fraud lawsuits brought by former donors in Arkansas. The founder of GFA and…
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On the Educate for Life radio show, guest and self-styled historian David Barton agreed with host Kevin Conover that the public school Bible classes offered by the National Council of Bible Curriculum in Public Schools teaches Christianity. Watch: Barton agrees when Conover says, “they’re offering not just a Bible as…
