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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

How To Avoid Political Turmoil With Your Family This Thanksgiving

A politically divided nation ensures that many extended families will likely face some contentious conversations this holiday. But it doesn’t have to play out that way with your family.
Lifeway: Seven Ways To Foster a Grateful Church

...Does a season of thanksgiving feel out of place in your local church? If it does, and you’d like to change that, here are a few suggestions for fostering a grateful church all year round.
Townhall: Giving Thanks Is Good For You

Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. The prototype of Thanksgiving dates back to the Pilgrims who celebrated their first harvest in the New World in 1621 with the Native-Americans.
Lifeway: Teach Your Kids God is Good All the Time

We must remind our children of the fundamental truths about God. In these formative and impressionable years, their minds are being shaped. The beliefs they develop today will guide decisions throughout their...
Harbingers: Why a Future Seven Year Tribulation Is a Biblical Necessity

The Bible tells us there must be a seven-year period when God again turns His attention to the Jewish people and Jerusalem. The length of this still future time comes the prophet Daniel who specified...
Thanksgiving Inflation---Cost of Holiday Feast Up 24% Under Biden

Thanksgiving dinner will cost a staggering 24 percent more this year than it did before Joe Biden took office.
RealClear: The Mystery of Governor Bradford’s Hebraic Gravestone

For nearly two centuries, Bradford’s gravesite oddly languished in obscurity...The story behind this forgotten artifact reveals surprising insights about the history and memory of Puritan New England.

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Newsmax: Scientists Urge Peope To Trust In AI To Advance Mankind

With the public fears of artificial intelligence potentially holding it back, scientists are pushing AI as a path forward for discovery and innovation, potential uses that could increase public trust and reduce skepticism.
Biden Has Escalated Ukraine Conflict and Invited Broader War, Experts Say

Over the last month, the Ukraine-Russia conflict has significantly escalated into a broader regional war...Biden has actively escalated tensions and moved the world closer to an expansive war.
Encouragement For Those Entering the Holiday Gauntlet of Grief

...Over the last five years, I’ve slowly rebuilt a love for the holidays. As I reflect on what I’ve learned, here are five things I’d encourage you to consider as you look ahead to your own gauntlet of holidays.
Core Christianity: Is Israel Still The Promised Land?

Should we still look to the land that once comprised the borders of the nation of Israel in the 10th century B.C. as a holy land, set apart, and promised to God’s people?
Lifeway: 11 Most Popular Bible Verses at Thanksgiving

As people contemplate what makes them thankful this time of the year, many look to the Bible, particularly Psalms, to help them express their gratitude.
Harbingers Daily: After Media Tries To Corner Him On Congress Bathroom Debate, Speaker Johnson Points Back To God’s Design
Ch Post: Trump Nominates TX Associate Pastor as Secretary of HUD

President-elect Donald Trump nominated a Texas megachurch associate pastor to serve as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development in his forthcoming administration.
Harbingers Daily: John Piper Calls the Election of Donald Trump ‘Evil’

...“Presidential election results. Having delivered us from one evil, God now tests us with another,” Piper wrote on X...In 2016 presidential election, Piper actively worked to dissuade believers from voting at all...
HeadlineUSA: Texas Public Schools Permitted To Teach Bible Lessons

Texas’ education board voted Friday to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools under optional new curriculum. The material passed in an 8-7 final vote.
World Mag: Pro-Family Is the New Pro-Life

As conservatives slowly come down off the high of electoral victory, they are beginning to soberly count its cost. Donald Trump may have won, but pro-life lost.
AP: TSA Gears Up For the 'Busiest Thanksgiving Ever

Just as sure as the turkey will taste dry, airports and highways are expected to be jam-packed during Thanksgiving week, a holiday period likely to end in another record day for air travel in the United States.

Monday, November 25, 2024

Why Are European Countries Suddenly Telling Citizens To Prepare For War?

It appears that something really big is in the works. All of a sudden, a number of countries in Europe seem to be really freaking out about what is ahead, and that seems very strange.
The Rising Tide of Anti-Christian Attacks In Europe

You won’t know about it if you rely on the mainstream media, but Christians throughout Europe are experiencing anti-Christian hate crimes at an alarming rate.
Harbingers Daily: Anti-Christian Hostility Sharply Increases Across Europe

Anti-Christian hate crimes, discrimination, and restrictions on the religious freedom of Christians are increasing in many European countries, according to a new report...Using gov't statistics, police data, and...
Core Christianity: How Can God Use All Things For Our Good?

Is it really possible that God can work together all things for good? How can God actually use all things for our good? Such a huge question deserves an equally huge answer.
Newsmax: Majority Approves of Trump Transition, CBS Poll Says

A large 59% majority of Americans — a percentage that exceeds even that of Trump's more than 50% popular-vote victory — approve of the Trump transition moves, according to a CBS News poll.
Fight of Faith: As Far as the East Is From the West

What does it truly mean for God to remove our sins “as far as the east is from the west”? It’s a declaration of infinite grace, reaching farther than we often dare to imagine.
Proclaim & Defend: Illustration From History---Substitution

The law of God, which demands the ultimate punishment for sin, now has no claim on anyone who trusts in Christ. They are free from the law of sin and death.
Gateway Pundit: T.D. Jakes Suffers Medical Emergency During Sermon

Bishop TD Jakes suffered a medical emergency while delivering a sermon on Sunday at The Potter’s House megachurch in Dallas. Jakes, during his sermon, started to freeze and shake involuntarily.
Persecution.org: North Korea---Where Christians Are the Enemy of the State

Though it maintains a small token church as a nod to its previously religious past, the North Korean government is no friend to religion. Its despotic leader, Kim Jong Un, demands absolute loyalty to himself.
Russian Pastor Arrested For Speaking Out Against Invasion of Ukraine

A Russian pastor has been arrested after criticizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urging believers not to participate in the conflict. Nikolay Romanyuk, senior pastor of the Holy Trinity Pentecostal Church...
Newsmax: Consumers Brace For Huge Bargain Hunt In Big 'Black Friday'

US shoppers are coming out in force this holiday season, but the festiveness is being tempered by inflationary pressures that have abated but not completely faded.

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Desiring God: Make the Most of Sunday Mornings

I am writing mainly to those for whom church has become routine — the kind of believers who, when Sunday rolls around, are more likely to yawn than wince. Thankfully, there are many simple changes we...
Equip: How Can I Encourage My Church?

This world can be a discouraging place. All Christians are called to encourage one another in the Lord (1 Thess 5:11), but pastors bear a unique responsibility to “care for the church of God” (Acts 20:28).
NC Families Sleep In Tents Amid Snow After Hurricane Devastation

North Carolina residents, including families with small children, are sleeping in snow-surrounded tents as post-hurricane recovery remains slow and federal aid even slower.
The Power of Effective Prayer---Aligning Our Hearts With God’s Will

Pray in line with the Scriptures! Here are key biblical principles for aligning your heart with God’s will. Learn how to approach prayer with clean hearts, the right motives, and unwavering faith.
Ch Post: Fresh Violence Erupts In India, as Christian-Hindu Tensions Escalate

Twenty people have died in the past two weeks as ethnoreligious violence resurges in India's northeastern state of Manipur, where Christians and Hindus remain locked in a devastating conflict that...
The True Story of Thanksgiving---Rush Limbaugh

...The Real Story of Thanksgiving, going back to the very first early days of the Pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock, is that socialism failed. This is crucially important today, because we have just...
Hurricane Helene Victims Pull Together Christmas Donations For Children

Communities slammed by Hurricane Helene have come together to deliver some much-needed holiday cheer in the form of Operation Christmas Child, a church-run gift-giving campaign that has already...
Randy Alcorn: Our Sovereign King Reigns

Whether you are encouraged or distressed by the results of the election, there is great comfort in embracing Scripture’s teaching that God is sovereign over human events, including elections.
Wall St. Journal: Decline and Fall of America? Not Yet

Why would rational people vote to destroy their borders, their cities, their jobs and their children? For the same reason the sick family must tolerate its dysfunction: The co-opted liberal electorate was terrified that any deviation would result in destruction of its protective unit. As it would.
PNW: Can You Lose Your Child To the State Over Gender Disagreements?

Recent court cases reveal a troubling trend: parents losing custody or facing diminished parental rights due to disagreements over their child's gender identity and associated treatments. These cases raise profound questions about the balance between parental authority and state intervention...
Texas Officials Vote To Allow Bible-Based Lessons In Elementary Schools

Bible-based lessons are now allowed in Texas elementary schools, and may be implemented in 2025.

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Plurality of Americans Say Thanksgiving Plans Affected By Price Increases

A plurality of Americans say their Thanksgiving plans are affected by price increases, the latest weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found.
Washington Stand: Reality Wins---Transwomen Are Men

...And the church will need to attend to the needs of those wounded by the very real consequences of crazy ideas like boys can become girls or vice versa. We have much to do!
AND Mag: Europe Braces For War as Biden Shovels More Fuel On the Fire

...The Europeans are focused on the very real possibility that the Biden–Harris administration is going to start World War III on its way out the door. Over the continent, military and civilian authorities are working...
Desiring God: Hospitality Sets Apart a Christian Home

...Christian hospitality is the overflow of a heart that has been utterly transformed by divine hospitality. Jesus embodies hospitality. Despite not having a home to open to strangers, Jesus practiced hospitality.
Ch Post: Family of Murdered Angola Missionary Prepare For Funeral

The family of murdered American missionary Beau Shroyer say they have been struggling through grief as they prepare for his funeral at the end of this month.
Decision Mag: Bought With the Precious Blood of Christ

Redeemed used to be a popular word in the evangelical vocabulary. Reference was often made to Christ as the Redeemer. We don’t hear that much anymore, and I think we may have lost an understanding...
Gateway Pundit: Bible Found Stuck on Post In North Carolina After Hurricane Helene Was Opened Up To Prophetic Chapters
MSN: Trump Team Readies a Flurry of Executive Actions For Day One

Within hours of taking office as president, Donald Trump plans to roll out a flurry of executive actions aligned with his campaign promises, imposing large-scale deportation of illegals...
Newsmax: Pew Poll---Most Approve of Trump's Policies, Plans

According to a Pew Research poll released Friday, 53% of Americans approve of President-elect Donald Trump's plans and policies for the future. Most Americans also express confidence in Trump...
Breitbart News: Democrats Retreat From Transgender Priorities

Democratic leaders have retreated from supporting Rep. Sarah McBride’s transgender priorities amid growing evidence transgenderism is Russian roulette for candidates in swing districts.