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Joe Robert Davis

Pastors are needed in the “gates” more than ever because most of the burning issues of our times deal with the concerns they seek to address.

Pastors are needed in the “gates” more than ever because most of the burning issues of our times deal with the concerns they seek to address.

Throughout the last month, police say the man on video has robbed at least a dozen food trucks across Houston.

Though I am old in years, the fire lit in me by people like these still burns. Where I have done well, it is through their examples and teaching. Where I have missed the mark, I have no one to blame but myself.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner fired back at a prominent pastor after comments he made during one of his sermons this past weekend.

Dr. Ed Young with Houston's Second Baptist Church called the bond issue in Harris County a possible result of “left-wing progressives in office.

The Rev. Ed Young on Sunday urged his congregation to vote out local elected officials who he blamed for the rise in homicides in Harris County, setting off an online firestorm.

Don’t assume that you are beyond temptation. Don’t set your eyes on those who have fallen … but do watch those who have fallen, repented, and gotten back in the race.

God did not sanction the choice by some of “whiteness” and segregation in Birmingham in 1963, and He does not now sanction “choice” of killing a baby on demand in its mother’s womb.