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By CP Staff, Friday, September 20, 2024 Pastor Steve Lawson in a screenshot from an appearance at Grace Community Church in Aug 2022. | YouTube/Grace Community Church A Texas pastor known for his fiery preaching and frequent appearances alongside John MacArthur has been removed from ministry after an alleged “inappropriate relationship” with an unidentified woman. […]
Research shows that we react more strongly to negative than to positive information, which explains why there’s more bad news than good news in the news. Let’s test this theory. Note your visceral response to these stories: The Fed is expected to cut interest rates today. New technology can produce drinking water from seawater […]
We’re learning more about Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump: The suspected gunman hid near Mr. Trump’s golf course for roughly twelve hours before a Secret Service agent spotted him and opened fire. He had a long history of criminal convictions that would have barred him from owning a gun. His firearm’s serial […]
Can someone commit apostasy? It’s an important question facing the church in light of our entry into a post-Christian world, one where increasing numbers are claiming to have once been Christians and now claim to be “nothing.” This rise of the nones raises not only cultural questions but also theological ones. How should we view […]
As I’m watching the devastation and chaos unfold in America, it reminded me of what we desperately need today—fire, as seen in Jeremiah 5:14, “I will make My words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.” The fire of God’s Word purifies, reveals, consumes, and devours sin, all in the hopes […]
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, announced yesterday that she has completed chemotherapy for her cancer. However, she added, “My path to healing and full recovery is long, and I must continue to take each day as it comes.” In other news, the widow of hockey star Johnny Gaudreau announced her pregnancy with their third […]
The National Football League has begun its 105th season. If you’re looking for a player to follow this year, allow me to nominate Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Not because he makes $55 million a year, which was tied for the highest in the league until the Dallas Cowboys signed Dak Prescott yesterday for […]
A recent article in USA Today noted that as millions leave organized religion, they can’t quite let go of organized “religiony” things. I charted one aspect of this in a recent blog; namely, that people who reject the Christian faith very much want to embrace Christian culture. But the article in USA Today revealed a different […]
On September 4, 2024, a tragic mass shooting unfolded at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, leaving four dead and at least nine others injured. The incident began around 9:30 a.m. when a 14-year-old suspect opened fire on the school premises, sending the campus into chaos. Students were evacuated to the school’s football stadium while […]
For a long time, if you encountered a writer warning about declining global birth rates, it was a safe bet you were reading a right-leaning or Christian publication. But that appears to be changing. In the last couple of years, mainstream news outlets seem to have caught on that the problem civilization now faces […]