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I am focusing today on hope that transcends every challenge we face. But to get to the good news, we need to set the stage. Today’s headlines illustrate the fragility of life: from the passenger plane that skidded off a South Korean airport runway yesterday, killing all but two of the 181 people on […]
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Monday, December 30, 2024 Dallas Jenkins and Jordan B. Peterson | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast/screenshot Dallas Jenkins, creator of the hit series “The Chosen,” recently became emotional while sharing the Gospel with psychologist and bestselling author Jordan Peterson during an episode of “The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast.” During […]
The results are in: America’s stage four cancer has metastasized to the family and the church as well as to the government and the schools. We are more depraved than ever before. Animals are guarded, but innocent children are slaughtered. Porn is protected, and sex trafficking is on the rise. Cardi B’s lyrics get a […]
Our attention spans have never been more challenged than they are today. We have a plethora of technology today than we ever have in history. Even with the large consumption of content brought forth by the digital age, our concentration and comprehension has greatly diminished. Although this is something that most with access struggle with, it is a greater challenge […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, December 27, 2024 Pastor Josh Lough was the senior pastor of Grace Bible Church in Canal Winchester, Ohio. | Screenshot/Grace Bible Church An Ohio pastor who preached that oftentimes husbands are to blame when their wives are cranky and combative was arrested for assaulting his daughter and his wife, […]
Denzel Washington has made fifty movies and won two Oscars, but he wrote recently in Esquire, “The biggest moment of my life was when I was filled with the Holy Spirit,” an experience that occurred forty years ago. Last Saturday, he received his minister’s license and was baptized. In a video he shared online, […]
In Matthew 17:21, Jesus said that a certain evil spirit does not go out of a person except by prayer and fasting. Some manuscripts disagree on whether this verse should be included or not, but the principle is found throughout Scripture: Fasting applies pressure to the spiritual realm. Arthur Wallis notes, “Often, pressure has to […]
In July 2019, I described my journey to salvation in front of about 200 Christians at a church in a township near Cape Town, South Africa. As the pastor translated my testimony into the local Xhosa language, I had time to really think about the differences between me and my audience in the small, sparsely […]
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Monday, December 23, 2024 Denzel Washington attends the “Gladiator II” TIFF Asia Premiere at TOHO Cinemas Hibiya on Nov. 5, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. | Toru Hanai/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington was baptized at a church in New York City over the weekend and […]
There are at least two overlooked aspects of the story of Joseph and Mary. Yet knowing about these two dynamics to their life adds even more wonder to the Christmas story. The first has to do with age. Mary would have been young, but Joseph was not. They had what we might call a “May-December […]