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1 month ago | 
afa.net | Anne Cockrell |Joy Lucius |Jenna Ellis |Ed Vitagliano
As a mom who has experienced the joys (and mayhem) of traveling with kids, I promise you this: Family trips are always an adventure! Whether you’re navigating airport security with a stroller that won’t fold or breaking up backseat arguments about who gets the last snack, traveling with little ones can feel like an Olympic sport. But making memories is worth the chaos. Traveling is an incredible opportunity to nurture your child’s development.
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1 month ago | 
afa.net | Joy Lucius |Jenna Ellis |Ed Vitagliano |Rebecca Davis
My husband does not know I wrote this blog to talk about how great of a guy he is. If he knew, he might try to stop me, because I’m not so sure he knows just how great of a husband and daddy he is. To get started on why this blog is called “Coffee Notes” I need to go back a few years, six years to be exact. In the summer of 2019, we were finishing up our paperwork to be approved to become foster parents. We were blindly anxious about what all that would mean for us.
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1 month ago | 
afa.net | Jenna Ellis |Ed Vitagliano |Rebecca Davis
We just got back from a trip to the beach, a trip centered around a car show. As a newlywed, way back in the late 1970s, I had no clue that my entire life would involve some type of old hot rod. My dad never cared about old cars – or cars of any kind really. He simply viewed his car as a means of transportation. But my husband has always seen the beauty in the American workmanship that it took to build those old cars and trucks, especially the ones from the 1930s through the 1950s.
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1 month ago | 
afa.net | Hannah Meador |Joy Lucius |Jerry Newcombe |Ed Vitagliano
Clorox offends conservative viewers in its latest commercial, “Clean Feels Satisfying. Clean Feels Good.” In this ad, a woman is cleaning her house using Clorox, and then, at the end of the commercial, she takes off her bra. It is never appropriate for someone to remove an undergarment during an advertisement. Even though the woman in this Clorox ad removed her bra from underneath her shirt, the viewer’s mental image consists of a female undressing and removing her bra.
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2 months ago | 
afa.net | Joy Lucius |Jerry Newcombe |Ed Vitagliano |Joseph Parker
I remember where I was the first time I heard the words “COVID-19.” In December 2019, my then-boyfriend (now-husband) told me that a virus was sweeping through China and shutting its country down. “That’s in China, though,” I said. “We don’t have to worry about that here.”Boy, was I wrong. We all know the rest of the story: Within a year of that conversation, we had all lived through a pandemic.
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2 months ago | 
afa.net | Jerry Newcombe |Ed Vitagliano |Joseph Parker
According to multiple news sources, the United States Social Security Administration (SSA) has almost 21 million citizens registered in its data bank who are 100 to 369 years of age. Look at that age bracket again – 100 to 369 – and let that statistic sink in. Then, keep in mind that 114-year-old Naomi Whitehead from Pennsylvania is America’s oldest documented citizen, with various reports claiming that only 77 other Americans are currently 110 years of age or over.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
afa.net | Jerry Newcombe |Jessica Peck |Ed Vitagliano
What do Anita Bryant, Charles Colson, William F. Buckley Jr., and Jerry Falwell all have in common? These Christian public figures have all passed (Anita Bryant only days ago), though their decease is not the common trait to which I refer. Also, what might these conservative leaders have in common with Riley Gaines, the swimmer who has taken a courageous stand in defense of women’s rights? There are many commonalities that Bryant, Colson, Buckley, and Falwell shared.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
afa.net | Ray Rooney |Joy Lucius |John Oswalt |Ed Vitagliano
“Brethren, do not be children in your thinking…..but in your thinking be mature” (1 Corinthians 14:20). I could wish that every pastor would use discernment. That he would “be smart.”To put it another way, I wish every pastor would determine that in the new year, he is going to do nothing impulsively, out of fear, or motivated by false guilt. The “un-smart” pastor–to coin a term–does things that are unwise and unhealthy and in the long run, not beneficial to the kingdom nor to his people.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
afa.net | Ray Rooney |Ed Vitagliano |Tim Wildmon
Although it is certainly not the earliest of the messianic prophecies in Scripture, the second Psalm (Psalm 2:1-12) seems to function as the hub of the wheel of all messianic prophecies. There are at least 50 passages in the Bible that are connected to it in addition to the five direct references to it in the New Testament. The Apostle Paul interpreted “The Lord said to me, ‘You are my Son; today I have begotten you’” (2:7) to be a reference to Christ’s resurrection (Acts 13:32-33).
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
afa.net | Ed Vitagliano |Ray Rooney |Tim Wildmon |Joe McKeever
Moses said,TheLord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him (Deuteronomy 18:15). Two things come immediately to mind upon reading that. First, if you are like me, you never really associated the office of the prophet with Moses. Generally, when we think of Moses we think of:LawgiverMediatorIntercessorLeaderPastor (at least I do)“Prophet” brings to mind Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, etc.
