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Saturday, February 3, 2024

G3: How Church History Helps

...Most of us don’t face the dire challenges endured by these faithful heroes in church history. Examining how other believers persevered through severe trials helps us endure our challenges.
The Stream: When the Government Comes For Your Children

Those living under totalitarian regimes know they may hear "We are taking away your children” at any time. But what about here in America? Don't be so sure it can't happen here. In fact, it has already.
Mitch Chase: The Words of Jesus On the Lips of Stephen

Have you ever noticed that, as Stephen was dying, he sounded a lot like Jesus? Luke’s account of Stephen’s martyrdom is meant to recall the death of Jesus in Luke’s Gospel.
Acton Institute: Threats To Religious Liberty In the U.K.

A new government is likely to legislate further restrictions on the exercise of religious free speech and pose a danger to other areas of concern for the religious in Britain. The threat to basic liberties is real.
Hare Family: Dangers In Interpreting Circumstances

...Some Christians try to interpret circumstances, impressions, and dreams in order to try to understand God's will...There are dangers in trying to interpret our circumstances in this way.
TruthScript: Exercise To the Glory of God

...While it must be acknowledged that bodily exercise benefits the physical nature, lasting only for a brief moment in eternal history, most professing Christians are falling off the other side of the horse.
Mired In Debt, Majority of Young Adults Financially Dependent On Parents

Despite advantages, more than half of young adults between the ages of 18 to 34 are financially dependent on their parents, with many still living at home, unmarried, childless and mired in debt, a study shows.
MIN: Eight Signs That Demonstrate How Bizarre Our Society Is Becoming

...We’re not in the America that we grew up in anymore. Instead, we now live in a country that appears to be a cross between a really bad science fiction movie and a freak show. Sadly, the pace of change...
American Mind: Pretext for a Fedsurrection

The Big Lie of the January 6 "insurrection" is falling apart before our eyes.

Friday, February 2, 2024

RNS: Biden Speaks At National Prayer Breakfast
Why Did the Biden Admin Telegraph Strike Locations To the Iranians?

...Not only hasn't Biden responded yet to attacks on the troops, but Biden's team has listed possible targets in such detail as to raise questions about telegraphing to the enemy.
Satanists Lobby For Iowa Law Allowing Them To Target Children In Schools

The Satanic Temple is “happy to engage children” if a bill allowing chaplains in schools passes in Iowa, a minister of the Satanic Temple stated.
Israel 365: Lot’s Wife---Sodom and Gomorrah

Located in the Judean Desert, it is completely composed of sulfur.. Indeed, the sulfur found here is unique...What happened here would have remained an unexplained mystery, if not for the Bible.
Can American Churches Reap a Harvest Among Gen-Z Religious 'Nones'?

..."These 'nones' -- only 17% identify as atheists, 20% as agnostic, and 63% nothing in particular," "It's not that they don't believe in God, they're just not connected to a religious denomination or affiliation."
Street Preacher Shot In Head Goes Back To Church After Injury

Tragedy struck when a young Arizona street preacher was shot in the head while spreading the gospel. Now, he’s making headlines for miraculously returning to church after he wasn’t expected to survive.
Worthy News: Evangelical Christian Murdered By Sudanese Terrorists

An evangelical Sudanese Christian died in Sudan earlier this month after being attacked by the Rapid Support Forces, an Islamic paramilitary group which is fighting the Muslim Sudanese Armed Forces for...

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Bible Professor Makes False Claims About Gender Ideology and Scripture

The professor claimed that 'people reimagined and reshaped their gender identities' in Biblical times.
IFStudies: The Resurgence of the Two-Parent Family

...The latest readings from the U.S. Census Bureau show that in 2023, the proportion of children in two-parent families increased to 71 percent. The fraction in single-parent families decreased to 25%...
Wash.Stand: For Christians, Abortion Cannot Just Be a Political Issue

...There are concerning elements of the pro-life movement among Christians. We live in a highly charged political environment, and many Christians view abortion as more of a political issue than spiritual...
NGP: The Traits of False Teachers

...False teaching is a deadly virus that attacks the organism of Christ’s body, the church. Peter repeatedly says these heresies lead to “destruction.” The response of Christ’s body to such viruses should be to...
Christian Post: The Three Perils of Pornography

Throughout the years of pastoral ministry, one constant sin that has continued to surface during counseling sessions has been pornography. From young to old — it remains a massive pitfall for many...
Growing In Grace: The Incomparable Comfort of the Christian Faith

As a system of consolation, Christianity has no equal. No other religion in the world touches the hidden springs of the soul, or reaches the lowest depths of human sorrow, but the religion of Christ. When your...
Growing In Grace: When Consequences Are Irreversible

We all make mistakes. It’s a normal part of life for humans in a fallen state living in a cursed world. But what do you to do when your sin brings about irreversible consequences? What happens when there...
Victor Davis Hanson: How To Ensure a Big, Ugly War With Iran

When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one.
American Thinker: Enabling Hatred of the Jewish People

...In our own country, we see Obama, Biden and Blinken scold Israel for defending herself... Knowing that the evil-doers have the West in their sights as well, every freedom loving individual must not be silent...
Providence Mag: Hamas and History

One striking feature of the news media coverage of the current Gaza war has been its failure to relate this present conflict to its historical context. For the media reports the current conflict began only with...

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Washington Stand: New Report Catalogues Dozens of New Incidents of Persecution Against Christians In the West
Christian Veteran Who Beheaded Satanic Altar Charged With Hate Crime

Christian veteran Michael Cassidy, who beheaded a satanic altar in the Iowa capital over the holidays, has been charged with a hate crime. The altar to Baphomet was installed by the Satanic Temple...
Breitbart News: UK Cop Tells Gospel Singer She’s ‘Not Allowed To Sing Church Songs’ On the Street
The Federalist: Dad Of 11 Convicted For Praying at Abortion Facility Alongside Five Other Pro-Lifers Targeted By DOJ
Daily Signal: Pro-Lifers Targeted By Biden DOJ Found Guilty

A Nashville jury found six pro-life activists guilty Tuesday of violating the FACE Act and conspiracy against rights based on charges brought by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice.
Breitbart: Six Pro-Life Activists Found Guilty, Face 11 Years In Prison

Six pro-life activists were found guilty on Tuesday for “conspiracy against rights” and violating the FACE in relation to a peaceful protest outside of a Tennessee abortion facility in 2021.
Christian Post: Street Evangelist Returns To Church Months After Being Shot In Head While Preaching
CBN News: Iran Behind Group That Killed Three US Soldiers

...Some Middle East analysts believe U.S. enemies in the region are sensing weakness, and any response from Washington must be as big as the U.S. rhetoric.
Tabletalk Mag: The Value of Human Life

...To grasp what the Bible emphasizes about the image of God, we must go back to the time when Moses wrote about the creation of humanity. Archeological discoveries indicate that in Moses’ day, many...
Roger Williams and His Glorious Experiment of Religious Liberty

Roger Williams was a key figure in the battle for religious liberty in England and America. He was a man of deep spiritual and moral conviction who had the God-given courage to go against the tide of society...
Sharper Iron: Teaching Church History In Our Churches

...Why should we teach church history in our churches? How will stories from the past profit churches today? What purpose might it serve to provide believers with regular lessons from church history?
Cripplegate: The Marks of an Unbeliever

...Let’s take a deeper look at the central theme of Jesus’ words when He called Himself the “Bread of life,” and why the crowd rejected Him while Peter and ten disciples believed.
American Thinker: Why are Thousands of Pharmacies Closing?

...I was unaware the loss of our drugstores was a nationwide trend until reading that big chains closed nearly 2,000 pharmacies between 2017 and 2020 with more planned.

Monday, January 29, 2024

Newsmax: Political Pressure Builds On Biden To Strike Iran After US Deaths

The killing of three U.S. troops and wounding of dozens more by Iran-backed militants is piling political pressure on President Joe Biden to deal a blow directly against Iran, a move he's been reluctant to do...
Washington Stand: The Danger of Christians Idolizing Trump

...But it is crucial that Trump not be (in the literal sense of the term) idolized. The former president is fighting for America’s soul, but he will not save America’s soul: Christ alone can do that.
Breitbart: 69% Side With Texas Over Biden In Southern Border Battle

In the ongoing battle between Texas and the Biden administration to defend our Southern border against invasion, more than two-thirds (69 percent) side with Texas.
Is Biden’s Border Battle With Texas Deliberately Provoking Civil War?

There have been an estimated 9 million illegal border crossings into the United States since the Biden administration took office. Taking a momentous step to halt this “invasion,” the Governor of Texas issued...
BCLife: Four Ways To Respond When Christians Hurt You

...God instructs us in very specific ways about how we should respond when someone does us harm. By virtue of our union with Christ—in His death and resurrection—we can put the following into practice:
Indian Archeologists Find 17th-Century Mosque Built Over Hindu Temple

The Archaeological Survey of India has reportedly discovered the ruins of an ancient Hindu temple beneath a mosque that was built in the city of Varanasi in the 17th Century. The discovery could be...
China Is Following the Nazis’ Playbook In Its Tactics Against the Church

...Beijing’s government attempts to usurp the role of God, He and His Word cannot be overcome.
Tim Challies: The Soundtrack of Heaven

...God is the master of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary, the mundane into the miraculous. God is the master of accepting little and multiplying it to much.
FTC: Digital Detox, Intentional Ignorance, and the Proximity Principle

For Christians to thrive in the modern era, there are two spiritual disciplines we must adopt: Digital Detox (fasting from screens) and Intentional Ignorance (fasting from information).
Newsmax: Biden Approval Remains At Historic Lows
American Thinker: Can Israel Win In Gaza?

...This a war like no other that Israel has engaged. It is fighting an entrenched army of fanatics in nasty urban combat with tunnels. Israel does have some advantages that were lacking in eariler wars...