Jesus called believers to love one another, saying, “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen” (1 John 4:20). So why are professing believers helping fuel the fire by persecuting their own? Is it “friendly fire” where maybe they are blinded, having scales on their eyes because of unrepentant sins, and somehow can’t see how dangerous thei

I was born in So-Cal, so I was raised on good-ol’ American rock-n-roll. Amped-up, over-the-top, uber-talented, no-holds-barred singers and musicians were a given.  On the weekends our all-girl group went to L.A. clubs like Madame Wong’s, Whiskey-a-Go-Go, Troubadour, The Roxy.  Our motto was, “Once a rocker, always a rocker, viva la rock!”  Oh, sure, I was a born-and-raised Christian, but I was also born-and-raised in California on secular music.  I liked it all – rock, pop, p