On Sunday morning at the Dallas area’s respected Prestonwood Baptist Church, Pastor Jack Graham delivered two strong really electrifying messages before he preached this week’s sermon.First, he asked that the lights be
On this day set apart to honor the mothers and mother-figures in our lives, my mind turns to a woman of fierce faith we read about in Apostle Matthew’s gospel. We do not know her name, but her words and actions were so incredible, so audacious, that they were written down, included in the biblical canon and are studied to this day.
Pastor Jack Graham, senior pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas. | Courtesy of Prestonwood Baptist Church
She was a Canaanite woman who had a daughter who was oppressed by a demon, a daughter whom she would do anything for (Matthew 15:21-28). One day, Jesus ventured into Tyre and Sidon, which was Gentile territory. It was there this woman found him.
So how much do you know about Nate Paul?
The two of us asked each other this question back in the summer of 2019, when Nate Paul s spots got raided by the FBI. Over the years, we d both acquired some knowledge about Paul and his World Class property empire that we hadn t seen in other coverage, enough to know that something about the story was really odd – his coming out of nowhere to acquire a set of high-visibility properties all over town, without evident plans to do anything with these assets, and then running into heavy financial weather almost immediately. Ken Paxton is now nearly a household name across America – the ostensibly Christ-centered heir to the legal activism of his predecessors John Cornyn and Greg Abbott, always at the front lines of culture-war clashes, and in 2020 devoted to raising up Donald Trump and slapping down Texas and especially Austin Democrats in equal measure.