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3 days ago | 
afa.net | Hannah Meador
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My entire family recently decided to take a vacation. Growing up in a large family, some of my best memories with my siblings and parents involved taking trips. Nowadays, with many of us living hours apart, those times together are much fewer and further in between. But for a week, thanks to my parents’ skillful planning, we were able to spend cherished time together to kick off the start of summer.
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2 weeks ago | 
afa.net | Jerry Newcombe |Hannah Meador |Tim Wildmon
“I was one of the CIA’s ‘secret soldiers of Benghazi’ when the U.S. diplomatic compound was attacked by terrorists,” recalls Mark (“Oz”) Geist. He was remembering September 11, 2012, when a band Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. Special Mission and a nearby Annex in Benghazi, Libya. Geist’s reflections are shared in a recent press release from Shadow Warriors Project.
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2 weeks ago | 
afa.net | Hannah Meador |Tim Wildmon |Don Wildmon
Memorial Day marks the time we remember those who have fallen in service of our country. It’s wonderful that many Americans take time out to honor those who died that we might be free. One aspect of military service that is often neglected these days is the multitude of official prayers and acknowledgments of God through the two-and-a-half centuries of America as a nation. The late Col. Ronald D. Ray of Kentucky served in the Vietnam War with great valor.
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2 weeks ago | 
afa.net | Hannah Meador |Tim Wildmon |Don Wildmon |Whitney White
Fabletics has launched an ongoing series of five raunchy commercials featuring Khloe Kardashian’s athletic wear collection. The “3 New Leggings Out Now!” ad is the newest of the obscene commercials currently being aired by Fabletics. This erotic ad focuses on the collection’s leggings, modeled in extremely provocative poses. A couple of camera angles within the ad are extremely crude. The camera zooms in on the model’s backside while she wears leggings from the collection.
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2 weeks ago | 
afa.net | Hannah Meador |Stephanie Simmons |Rick Robertson
The history of America is full of moral struggles. Although founded in 1776 on the idea that “all men are created equal,” there remained an estimated 500,000 slaves who would not partake in the new nation’s freedom, according to the Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution. In the 1950s and 60s, America made great strides on the path to racial equality during the Civil Rights Movement, but this coincided with societal degradation in the form of the sexual revolution.
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2 weeks ago | 
afa.net | Stephanie Simmons |Rick Robertson |Hannah Meador |Joe McKeever
Have you ever been stuck in a house with family members who were ill? Once upon a time, all five of my siblings, my dad, and I contracted the flu. To this day, I still remember us all lying around on couches, snoring, watching movies, and trying to recover as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, my mom (who amazingly never gets sick with common illnesses) managed the medicine dosages, ensured we were fed, and accomplished the thousand other things I knew she was also doing.
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2 weeks ago | 
afa.net | Rick Robertson |Hannah Meador |Joe McKeever |Joy Lucius
I have recently been reading through the Gospel of John. It’s taking me longer than I imagined because I keep finding little “nuggets” of new truths. But when I got to John 5:2-8, something I had never considered was brought to my attention. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids – blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
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3 weeks ago | 
afa.net | Hannah Meador |Joe McKeever |Joy Lucius
If you travel north on Interstate 29 near Rock Port, Missouri, you may notice the remnants of an old farm place. There are gray wooden structures, a pair of grain silos, a rusty flatbed truck, and several trees. Nothing is unusual, except for that one tree. The tree stands out, not because of its beauty, but because of its location. Strangely, the tree lives inside one of the silos. Over time, the tree has grown to an elevation several feet above the rim of the silo.
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3 weeks ago | 
afa.net | Abraham Hamilton III |Don Wildmon |Stacy Singh |Hannah Meador
The term “discipline” in English comes from a root word which means “instruction and training,” and that’s exactly what it is. Discipline is the process by which parents instruct their children and train them up in the way they should go (Proverbs 22:6). In the same way, a “disciple” of Jesus Christ is someone who is being trained in the way of Christ.
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3 weeks ago | 
afa.net | Rick Robertson |Joe McKeever |Joy Lucius |Hannah Meador
Beep, beep, beep!Most mornings, the familiar sound of my husband’s alarm clock starts our days off bright and early. He doesn’t typically get up following that first alarm sound. Instead, he sets multiple clocks to ensure he is awake and then keeps hitting snooze. One morning, our then-3-month-old wasn’t too fond of the first blaring morning siren that woke him up. “Ahh!” he yelled loudly as the alarm rang through our bedroom. Following his scream, the two of us couldn’t help but giggle.
