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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

50 New York City Places Of Worship Will House Foreign Nationals
MIN: The National Anthem, the Bible and the Christian Faith Are All Considered To Be Highly Offensive In America Now
GCD: Self-Denial Is More About Looking Up Than Saying 'No'

...Self-denial is not defined by arbitrary standards regarding food and self-discipline. Rather, it’s what Jesus says...Follow me. We deny ourselves not so that we will like ourselves better but to obey God...
Frontpage Mag: The Religion of the Left

Sacred destruction and the search for lost gods.
TGC: Why Is the SBC Membership Declining?

...In total, the SBC has lost more than 1.3 million people in just three years. There’s no single cause for such a steep drop in membership, but the data suggests some contributing trends.

Monday, June 5, 2023

Persecution.org: 43 Christians Massacred In Central Nigeria
Four Shocking Findings From State Department's Religious Freedom Report

The U.S. State Department's recent report highlighting religious freedom conditions abroad relayed several shocking realities about the scale of violence and persecution being faced by the world's Christians...
Fight of Faith: Expect God To Work In the Lives of People Around You

...The Holy Spirit is still active in the lives of his children. Even when we are under his chastening hand, it affects more than just us. In working in our lives, the Lord impacts the lives of those we encounter...
IFStudies: Marriage Is Disappearing From Britain

Marriage is disappearing in Britain and will likely all but fizzle out sometime in the second half of this century. It’s a social revolution that has recently been charted by the latest census...
Russell Moore’s Condemnation of Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law Is Wrong

...Ugandans choose to place limits on homosexuality. The Bible clearly does, as well.
Satan-Loving Designer Outraged PRIDE Collection Pulled From Target Stores
Tabletalk Mag: How To Avoid a Life of Regrets

...Regret is explicitly mentioned in Scripture only a few times, and many of those instances actually speak of God’s regret...God never makes mistakes, so His regret does not involve His own failure.
Texas Bans Puberty Blockers, ‘Trans’ Hormone Therapy For Children

Texas has become the latest American state to ban puberty blockers, hormone therapy and other “trans” medical interventions for children.
Am Thinker: There Are No God-Given Rights Without God

...There are two social frameworks for occupants of our world — "might makes right" and divine law...We accept that "might makes right" for animals. But we do not accept it for ourselves.
Rooted Thinking: Sending You 'Good Vibes'

Christians often respond to a need with, “I am praying for you.”...Unbelievers' respond with “giving good energy to you,” “sending good vibes,” “wishing the best,” “good luck.”
Victor Davis Hanson: The Strange Pandemic of ‘White’ Disparagement

All of a sudden, the obsession with whites as a Satanic collective has become a national fad.
Israel Today: Rockets In Judea and Samaria Are a Game-Changer

Nothing could make clearer the danger of creating a Palestinian state.
Ministry Watch: 30 Largest Christian Advocacy Organizations

...The organizations on this list are those whose work is not primarily direct aid, but in advocacy, including those who work in the arena of public policy — including life, marriage, and religious liberty.

Sunday, June 4, 2023

Public ‘Strongly’ Rejects Transgenderism Despite Corporate ‘Pride’

Americans are uniting in broad opposition to the transgender ideology despite a roar of pro-transgenderism rhetoric from Fortune 500 corporations, government officials, and establishment media.
Online Services Appeal To Many, But Going In Person Remains More Popular

...The survey finds that most Americans who watch religious services on screens are happy with them...At the same time, Americans tend to give higher marks to worshipping together in person.
Lifeway: Five Wrong Ways To Think About Church Growth

Church growth statistics are helpful because they encourage us to stop thinking in unhealthy ways.
Church Answers: The Gritty Work of Church Revitalization---An Unglamorous Calling For the Glory of God
EIC: Love In the Pews

Love does not deﬁne God; rather, it derives its deﬁnition from God.
Ch Post: Pastor, Son Arrested For Turning Church Into Drug House

A NC pastor and his son were arrested Sunday for allegedly turning their church that had been shuttered since the COVID-19 pandemic into a drug house that manufactured marijuana with the intent to...
Newsmax: Enforcement Lagging On Anti-Catholic Hate Crimes

..."The issue is that when the attacks are against Catholic churches, there's no response."
OpenTheBible: Jesus Will Return To Put the World Right

...Humanity continues to strive for utopia, but sin makes it impossible to achieve. Just like no one can get eggs out of a cake that has been baked, no one can get sin out the world; no one, except Jesus.
Cripplegate: Knowing God

Do you know God? Do you have assurance that you have eternal life? To know that we know God is of paramount importance because salvation ultimately can be boiled down to this one thing: knowing God.
Daily Wire: U.S. Faces Massive Shortage of Prescription Drugs
Amy L. Travis: No, Love Isn’t Always Love

...Many in our society have bought this lie that "love is love." As a result, these individuals have rebelled against social norms and God and found that they are unhappy with the results
The Stream: Green Energy Has a Dirty Secret

Green activists’ obsession with EVs perpetuates the injustice they ostensibly want to abolish.
Breitbart: Inflation Making Weddings More Costly For Couples, Guests

Inflation and increased demand are making weddings more costly, “as everything from music to flowers to makeup gets more expensive,” Axios reported this week.

Saturday, June 3, 2023

CBN News: Congress Sends Debt Deal to Biden's Desk
Stand To Reason: Don’t Be Taken In By the Tolerance Trick

In today’s relativistic, postmodern world, one word can stop an ambassador for Christ in his tracks: “tolerance.” No judgments allowed. No “forcing” personal opinions. All views are equally valid.
Lifeway: Going to Church---Championing the Beauty of the Local Church

A bright spot amid downward trends is that life in the local church
can be a transformative example even to those outside it.
Log College: Andy Stanley's Problem With the Bible

Andy Stanley knows the Bible...Why must he consistently cast doubt upon its inerrancy?
For the Church: Cynicism Isn’t a Spiritual Gift

...If Elijah had social media, he’d be complaining about being the one person standing for truth. Or he might be the person who stays home on Sunday because “no church is preaching the gospel right.”
CBN News: Kohl's Faces Backlash For LGBTQ Children's Clothes

Kohl's is now the latest U.S. retailer to face strong conservative backlash for marketing its LGBTQ clothing and other products for infants and young kids.
American Thinker: ‘Pride’ Is Nothing To Celebrate

...The biggest achievement of the LGBT agenda has not been the reversal of U.S. laws that deemed homosexual behavior illegal, but rather a sea-change in the views on homosexuality in the culture.
Federalist: Christians Are Right To Raise Red Flags About Rainbow Flags

How am I, a normal Christian trying not to choke on all of the LGBT alphabet soup being shoved down my throat, the controversial one here?
Pew Forum: Family Time Is Very Important In American's Life

Americans overwhelmingly view spending time with family as one of the most important things in their life, far outranking other personal priorities, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
P&D: What the Holy Spirit Does When We Believe the Gospel

Here we discover the Spirit’s primary purpose in all of His ministries, as well as what the Spirit does at the moment of our conversion. We explore how the Spirit works in our lives to make us more like Christ.
Ch Today: Christian Faith Was Jackie Robinson’s Haven In a Heartless World

A new biography offers an intimate account of his spiritual life, on and off the baseball field.
Powerline: Anti-Covid Policies Were a Disaster

A global consensus has emerged that governmental responses to covid-19, which involved shutdowns, limitations on freedom, mask mandates, and vaccination requirements, did great harm.
Free Press: The Revolt of the Farmers

The Dutch government wants farmers to give up their land to save the planet. They're fighting back.

Friday, June 2, 2023

Servant Leadership---The Humble Reality of Genuine Christian Leadership

Christian leadership is servant leadership. The ultimate display of godly leadership is the cross of Christ.
Breitbart News: ‘Vulgarity and Violence’ Cited as King James Bible Removed From Some Utah School Libraries
Ch Post: Pastor Among 43 Christians Killed By Herdsman In Nigeria

Fulani herdsmen killed a church pastor, his wife and 41 other people in an attack last month on two predominantly Christian villages in Nasarawa state, Nigeria, sources said.
Soaring Bidenflation Forcing Older Americans To ‘Unretire,’ New Poll Finds

...Nearly 10,000 reach retirement age each day. But with inflation soaring double digits, interest rates skyrocketing, and investment portfolios sagging — many older Americans are being forced to “unretire.”
Harbingers Daily: ‘Violence Against Christians Is Being Normalized’---Two Elderly Men Brutally Assaulted Praying Outside Planned Parenthood
Joe Biden Takes Huge Fall On Stage at Air Force Academy Graduation

...According to the White House pool report, he seemed to trip “on a black sandbag on the stage” but appeared “to be ok and continued to stand until the ceremony ended a few minutes later.”