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A Pattern for Worship
The church was born at the first Pentecost following the resurrection of Christ. It was at that time that Jesus “having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit” sent Him to his disciples and “they were all filled with the Holy Spirit”…
Assessing Potential Leaders: 10 Diagnostic Questions
“Where are the leaders?” I don’t need to convince anyone that the church is facing a leadership crisis. In times like these, churches can be tempted to hastily place unqualified men in positions of leadership before taking time to assess their character or qualifications (1 Tim. 5:22-25). As a result, the church suffers instead of…
Bob Jones University announces Joshua Crockett as its new President
Congratulations to Bob Jones University and to Joshua Crockett on his being named as the institution’s sixth president. Serving as the President of any institution of higher learning in these tumultuous times is an endeavor that requires wisdom, fortitude, humility, faithfulness to the scriptures, and the dynamic blessing of God. All those character qualities have…
The Last Hymn at the Last Supper
The Passover meal had ended. Judas was well on his way to betray the Son of God. Bellies full, the remaining eleven prepared to sing the psalms they always sung before heading out for the evening. Matthew 26:30 reports that “when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.” What…
Social Justice and the Word of God
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD. (Proverbs 17:15) God is a just God and He demands that human beings treat one another justly. So why aren’t the Social Justice Warriors of our culture falling back on the Bible as they…
Podcast – Interview 30: Baptists, Dispensationalists, and Christian Nationalism with Michael Riley
In this political season, we’ve heard about something called “Christian Nationalism.” It’s a term used by those on the left to demonize everyone on the right, while many Christians are mystified by these charges. After all, they are Christians, they love their nation, and what is wrong with that? Well, our guest today helps us…
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SBC lost over 1,200 churches in 2022, data shows | Church & Ministries News
The Southern Baptist Convention, the United States’ largest Protestant denomination, lost more than 1,200 member churches in 2022, according to a recent data analysis from LifeWay Research. According to the analysis of the SBC’s 2022 Annual Church Profile published Tuesday, Lifeway found that, from 2021 to 2022, 1,253 congregations were no longer part of the…
Editor’s Notes: War with Hamas pushes Israelis closer to their Faith – The Jerusalem Post
Tefillin [phylacteries worn during prayer] and morning prayers, occasionally Mincha [afternoon prayer] and Arvit [evening prayer], observing Shabbat, adhering to a six-hour wait between consuming meat and dairy, reciting Birkat Hamazon [the blessing after meals], blessing every food and drink consumed throughout the day, increasing acts of charity, saying the Asher Yatzar [blessing recited after…
DOJ Funded Censorship Database Targets Christians, Gateway Pundit, Ron Paul Forums – Foundation for Freedom Online
A research project at Youngstown State University in Ohio, funded by a Department of Justice grants program, is scooping up millions of posts from Americans, storing them in a vast database, and analyzing them to identify common patterns of speech that can then be targeted for censorship. Targeted groups include conservative website The Gateway Pundit,…
Opinion Pieces
Can public school students learn the Bible? Here’s how we do it
The red bus arrives at Beechwood Elementary School in Whitehall, Ohio, throughout the day. About 15 students pile on each time, then it drives a few blocks to a church down the street. For the next 40 minutes, the students learn basic biblical teaching alongside virtues such as honesty, integrity and kindness.When the lessons are…
Life and Books and Everything – Where Have All the Fundamentalists Gone? | RSS.com
With two smart British historians—one from Oxford (Andrew) and one from Aberystwyth (David)–and one curious American pastor (Kevin), you might say that this episode puts the “fun” back in fundamentalism. How did fundamentalism become a pejorative putdown? Are evangelicals and fundamentalists really all that different? What is a fundamentalist anyway? And, to paraphrase Harry Emerson…
Why I am now a Christian – UnHerd
In 2002, I discovered a 1927 lecture by Bertrand Russell entitled “Why I am Not a Christian”. It did not cross my mind, as I read it, that one day, nearly a century after he delivered it to the South London branch of the National Secular Society, I would be compelled to write an essay…
Home & Family
It’s Not Politics: Fatherhood Decline Causing Rise of Religious Nones | RealClearReligion
But, in the years since we met this couple in the early 2000s, some sociologists, pundits, Christian thinkers, and church leaders have been persuaded by the idea that politics – particularly socially conservative politics – is playing a major role in driving the societal-wide decline in church participation. But the evidence doesn’t bear this out.…
Why marriage matters
If a cohabiting couple is reluctant to get married because they say “a piece of paper doesn’t change anything”, their reluctance is a sign they don’t even believe their own claim. If it doesn’t change anything, why not go ahead and get married? It seems they actually realize that the piece of paper does mean…
Most women who abort say they would rather not; | The Hill
Sadly, two-thirds said their decision to abort violated their own values and preferences. Their “choice” was, it turns out, not really what they would have wanted. In fact, a full 24 percent described their abortion as “unwanted” or “coerced.” Source: Most women who abort say they would rather not; Congress can help them | The…