(BEACON) With Lent starting this week, ChristianBibleStudies.com, a non-profit ministry of Christianity Today International, has developed over a dozen downloadable Bible studies to use during the Lenten and Easter season. All Bible studies are downloadable for immediate access, and there are a variety of formats: from one- session to multi-week studies, to studies based on the Gospel stories of Luke and Matthew, to studies based on movies depicting the crucifixion like The Passion of the Christ.

(BEACON) “Jesus was a compassionate, super intelligent gay man,” said Elton John last month and this has been addressed by the Christian Anti-Defamation League. “The Bible declares that the mind of person given over to homosexuality becomes depraved or spiritually worthless. This was on full display when pop star Elton John declared, ‘I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.’ This is an outrage and the height of blasphemy and an offence to all those who are Christians,” said Dr.

(BEACON) “The 2009 Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index” released by the Gallup Group has selected small town Holland, Michigan as the Happiest Place in the U.S.  At first glance, the town has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and sits where winter blizzards hold residents in a death grip.

(BEACON) The body of filmmaker David Hames has been positively identified after recovery under rubble from the earthquake in Haiti.  Hames was President of Red Balloon Entertainment and Producer of “Cranium’s Ark”.