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Monday, March 28, 2022

Desiring God: Kneeling Among Lions---Learning To Pray Like Daniel

Tucked away in the book of Daniel, sandwiched between visions of statues, beasts, and rising kings, is an extended prayer with a shockingly immediate answer.
RNS: Mormon Support For Same-Sex Marriage Has Doubled In the Last Decade
Cripplegate: A City Set On a Hillsong---Why Light Can’t Worship With Darkness

...The sad news from Hillsong these past few weeks reminds us that as the kingdom of light will always make itself known, so too will the kingdom of darkness. And that should shape how we worship.
Lifeway: Three Truths About Your Non-Religious Neighbor

We must simplify what it means to be a good neighbor and build relationships with the people around us.
Frontpage Mag: Expansionist Islam

Is Putin’s war distracting us from another threat?

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Daily Wire: Easter Is the Latest Holiday Hit By Inflation

Easter is the latest holiday to be affected by inflation, as price surges and shortages of necessary raw materials hamper candy producers.
Geoff Kirkland: The Unique Wonder of the Sunday Gathering

What sweet kindness we enjoy when we gather with the saints on Sunday. God’s people assembled together is a meeting unlike anything else in this world.
Churches Reopening For Worship But Attendance Still Poor, Study Finds

A study from Pew Research revealed that in-person attendance remains low despite many congregations opening their doors for religious services.
MSN: How Biden Sparked a Global Uproar With Nine Words About Putin

With nine ad-libbed words at the end of a 27-minute speech, Biden created an unwanted distraction by calling for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be pushed out of office.
Washington Examiner: What Judge Jackson Exposed About the Legal Left

...This week’s hearings on Jackson’s nomination were quite valuable because they exposed a far-left legal orthodoxy that knows its beliefs, values, and legal reasoning are not shared by the majority of voters.
PJ Media: Biden’s Cognitive Decline Was Really On Display This Week

Joe Biden really put his foot in his mouth this week.
White House Rushes To Clean Up Biden's Disastrous Remarks About Putin

“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
CBN News: The Challenge of Christian Celebrity
BCLife: Seven Reasons To Love and Support Christian Missions

All believers in Christ’s church are also given the mission to proclaim Christ Jesus.
Breitbart: Transgender Sports Debate Is Impacting 2022 Election

The womens’ advocacy groups that emerged to defend womens’ sports from “transgender” men are moving into politics, as multiple polls show the public is increasingly rejecting transgenderism.
For the Church: Christ Is An Unconquerable Savior

Because Jesus is God we can know that he is able to save. But we are encouraged not just that Christ is able to save, but in knowing that he has actually exercised his ability to save us.
Desiring God: God, Make Us Bold About Jesus

...What if the church of Jesus Christ, in all her local manifestations, was marked by a singular passion to know Jesus and make him known? This is the true priority of the church in every age...
Harbingers: Will Finland Side With Religious Freedom?

A decision in a high-profile European religious freedom case is expected to be handed down by month’s end. Finnish Parliament member Päivi Räsänen is charged with hate speech...
Tabletalk Mag: The Faith and Its Foes

Jude presented “the faith” as being monotheistic in focus, mediatorial in character and moral in its effect.
Am Conservative: Disney Drives Conservatives Into Closet

...Can you imagine what it’s like to work at Disney as a political, social, or religious conservative under the reign of this mob of tyrants?
Faithwire: Walt Disney’s Grand Vision Is Being Overtaken By a Woke Fantasy

...No longer is the fantasy Disney described “restoring order.” Nowadays, it seems, it’s sowing disorder.
Nick Batzig: The Church---Its Meaning, Members, and Means

Since the Church is the “body of Christ,” the “bride of Christ,” and the “children of God,” we should eagerly commit ourselves to the other members of Christ, recognizing that God is bringing His people to glory.
Crossway: Help! I Love Jesus But Not the Church

It’s impossible to love Jesus and not love the church.
Five Reasons Digital Church Attendance Numbers Are Getting Confusing

...The challenge we are seeing is the confusing nature of digital attendance. Perhaps it is because we are still relatively early in the introduction of digital worship in most churches.

Saturday, March 26, 2022

Newsmax: New Phase of Ukraine War? Russia Shifts Focus

Russian forces have shifted their focus from a ground offensive aimed at Kyiv to instead prioritizing what Moscow calls the liberation of the contested Donbas region, suggesting a new phase of the war.
Ch Headlines: U.S. Missionary Kidnapped In Ukraine By Russian Forces

An American missionary who became a well-known pastor in a major Ukrainian city has been kidnapped by Russian soldiers from his home.
Biden Warns of 'Real' Food Shortage Following Sanctions On Russia

"...Yes we did talk about food shortages, and it's gonna be real."
Twitter Goes On Suspending-Spree of Christians For Trans Comments

..."Truth is not hate speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it. We won’t compromise the truth just to keep our account.”
Cripplegate: What Is a Woman?

What an odd question to ask at a confirmation.
Daily Wire: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Released From Hospital
Breitbart: Poll---About 7 In 10 Americans Say Biden Economy Is Terrible

...Nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of how he is handling the economy. Moreover, a majority of Americans say Biden’s own policies have hurt the economy instead of helped it.
Human Traffickers Reportedly Pose As Pastors On Ukrainian Border

...Boom described seeing kids so traumatized they couldn’t speak; others were screaming.
Fight of Faith: Why You Are Dissatisfied With Christianity

...Does Christianity really deprive us of the good and replace it with the sad? One look upon the faces of many Christians might indicate that this is the case!
Why Is Russia’s Church Backing Putin’s War? Church-State History Gives a Clue

The church’s current support for the Kremlin is not inevitable or predestined, but a deliberate decision.
Christian Headlines: 3,000-Year-Old Tablet With God's Name Affirms Biblical Timeline, Archaeologist Says
NC Lt. Gov. Turns Media’s ‘Gotcha’ Moment Into a Powerful Gospel Message

...“I’m not saying abortion is wrong because I say so, it’s wrong ’cause God says so. It’s wrong when others do it and it was wrong when I paid for it to be done to my unborn child in 1989.”
Troops Look Stunned as Biden Talks Gibberish and Gobbles Pizza

Biden made his typical gaffe headline yesterday in Poland. Biden said the US troops were going to Ukraine.
Pat Buchanan: Is Victory For Ukraine Worth Risking Nuclear War?
Human Events: How the War On Ukraine Will Shatter Global Food Security

As world hunger persists, Russia’s war on Ukraine will be devastating for people in countries already struggling with food security and poverty.
American Greatness: On Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Terrible Judgment

There is not much worse than a Supreme Court justice with a soft spot for mollycoddling pedophiles—a position Jackson has actually held since law school.
Tabletalk Mag: Songbirds Fly At Night

...What relevance is bird migration to the pastor, seminary student, or average church member?
Four Takeaways From NYT Attempt To Control the Hunter Biden Narrative

A closer look at The New York Times’ reporting on Hunter Biden shows Biden’s team may be laying the groundwork ahead of an even bigger story.
Church Answers: Preparing Your Volunteers For Easter Sunday

...Hopefully you’re preparing your church for the celebration: services are being planned, worship is being rehearsed, and sermons are being crafted. But how is your volunteer prep coming?

Friday, March 25, 2022

American Thinker: Ketanji Brown Jackson Is a Trojan Horse

...She seems to have no familiarity, or no opinion on or understanding she was willing to state, with the visceral legal topics of our times. What is a woman? When does life begin? Her flip answers...
Americans Are Leaving Church and Most Aren’t Coming Back, Report Says

...For nearly 30 years, research shows the share of Americans who identify as religious has consistently declined with each new generation.
Newsmax: Nuclear War Possibility Looms Over NATO Talks

President Joe Biden and NATO allies met in Brussels on Thursday with the threat of nuclear war at its most heightened point since the Cold War.
Newsmax: Russian Losses In Ukraine Exceed Soviet Losses In Afghanistan

Up to 15,000 Russian troops have been killed since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his attack on Ukraine last month, with as many as 40,000 dead, wounded, taken prisoner or missing...
Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Religious Death Row Inmate

The justices Thursday said John Henry Ramirez likely has the right to have his pastor lay hands on him and pray out loud in the execution chamber. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had denied...
Ch Today: Why Haven’t There Been Any Evangelicals On the Supreme Court?

...The high court’s decisions on abortion and school prayer helped galvanize the Religious Right, but conservatives have focused more on outcomes than the identities behind the bench.
Leftist Dark Money Backing Ketanji Brown Jackson For Supreme Court