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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 Katelyn Webb, Monday, December 30, 2024 Debris lies in the wreckage of a tornado that struck O’Zion Church in Meadville, Mississippi, in December 2024. | Screenshot: Facebook/Jordan Hall A powerful tornado tore through a historic church in southern Mississippi over the weekend, leaving the congregation of O’Zion Baptist Church in Meadville to rely on […]
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 […]
This is the time to recap the year that was. And what a year it was. There are a number of ways to do it, many that are interesting. You can look at a year in terms of notable deaths, viral events, political rises and falls, etc. But how do you really get a 12-month […]
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 […]
Among the top worldview stories of 2024 was the series of unexpected admissions from prominent atheists of the cultural good of Christianity. Even as hostility toward Christianity and Christian morality has increased in recent years, a growing number of atheists, former atheists, and secularists verbalized the role Christianity played in shaping the Western world […]
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Sunday, December 29, 2024 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, wave to the audience during the Democratic National Convention at the Fleet Center July 26, 2004, in Boston, Massachusetts. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Former President Jimmy Carter, who was well-known for his charity work, books, and […]
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 […]