David Schrader, PhD, National Pastor

We are now at the beggining of the season of Lent. Lent is observed by millions of Christians around the world. Lent is a 40-day solemn Christian liturgical season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. It serves as a period of preparation to commemorate Jesus Christ's temptation in the desert and passion. It is also a time for reflection, repentance, and spiritual renewal . Repentance naturally implies a genuine godly sorrow for and turning from sin, and to seek a closer realationship with God....

Pensées is a collection of French Philosopher Blaise Pascal’s arguments defending the Christian faith. Published in 1669 as Thoughts (Pensées), they have exerted a powerful intellectual influence ever since. Pascal denied that the tenets of faith must be rational, and that human reason can prove the existence of God, as some thinkers of his time argued. Rather, he held that God is beyond human understanding and that man has no assurance of meaningfulness in the universe aside from God....

As evil and anarchy continue to manifest, every generation since Jesus left the earth has wondered, could Jesus come back in my lifetime?...