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Monday, March 22, 2021

What the Japanese Church Has Learned 10 Years After Fukushima

The 2011 triple disaster devastated the Tohoku region of northeast Japan and dramatically disrupted Christian ministry—for the better.
Colin Smith: To Those Who Are Frustrated With the Church

...God’s building is not yet complete. So, no one should be surprised if the local church looks and feels more like a building site than a showroom.
Desecrated and Defecated On: Churches In Europe Under Islam

A widespread—but wholly ignored—phenomenon.
Servants of Grace: Is This Why Birds Sing?

...Why do birds sing? Let us say, theologically, that birds sing to remind us as a witness...
Ligonier: Fighting Fear and Anxiety

...The world is fearful and anxious, but it is fearful and anxious about the wrong things. The world is fearful about the economy, retirement accounts, natural disasters and man-made disasters. The world is fearful of diseases like the coronavirus. The world, however, is not fearful of God.
Desiring God: Our Most Destructive Assumption About Heaven

Of all the misconceptions we have about heaven, which is the most destructive? That’s a difficult and important question to tackle.
Church Leaders: Five Attacks On Christian Leaders Today

...As I see pastoral and leadership fatigue around the world, though, I’m seeing similar attacks on church leaders regardless of position.
City Journal: The Miseducation Of America’s Elites

Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret.
Proclaim & Defend: Live As Obedient Children

...For those of us who have been born again, we have a responsibility toward those who are not saved.

Sunday, March 21, 2021

China Arrests At Least Ten Christians In Raid of Private Bible Study

Police in the southwestern Chinese city of Guiyang raided a Christian bible study session held at a private residence this week, detaining at least ten participants, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Thursday.
Christian Post: Atlanta and the Enormity Of God's Grace

The deadly rampage in Atlanta, in which a young man apparently unable to escape torments of guilt slaughtered eight human beings, shows the need for an understanding of the enormity of God’s grace. Critics say what happened is an outcome of Evangelical fixation on sin and guilt. However, the deed perhaps was sparked by a poor comprehension of the enormity and extravagance of God’s grace.
Lifeway: Walking Through the Valley Of the Shadow of COVID

“We’ve been able to connect with the community in ways we were not able to before.”
WND: Biological Male Wins Female Beauty Pageant In Nevada

A transgender person is now one step closer to being crowned Miss USA.
Court Again Denies HS Coach Right To Pray On the Field After Games

A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled against a high school football coach who was fired from his job for praying on the field after games.
The Gospel Coalition: Four Ways to Love Someone Blindsided By Loss

....If you serve the church in any capacity, you rub shoulders regularly with people experiencing the confounding nature of loss. Beyond the call to “count it all joy,” how can we help those whose lives are marked by the painful trial of grief?
Quick Guide To Free Speech and Avoiding Big Tech Online
Randy Alcorn: Eight Myths About Heaven That Many Believe

...In an age when people try to make doctrines more appealing by ignoring or twisting biblical truth, here’s the irony—the true biblical doctrine of Heaven is far more attractive than the dull, inhuman view of the afterlife that has long prevailed in evangelicalism.
Tabletalk Mag: Caring For the Poor and Weak

...In the writings of Moses, the Lord is clear that He will judge His people according to the way in which they care for those who have no social or family structure to care for them.

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Biden Trips on Air Force One Stairs; Mocked Trump Walk Down Ramp In 2020

Prior to his fall while boarding Air Force One, President Joe Biden formerly mocked former President Donald Trump in 2020 for the way he walked during a visit to West Point.
Among Vaccine Woes, Europe Goes Into Lockdown… Again

Germany, France, Italy, and Poland are among the European nations entering or extending lockdowns this week.
LGBT Group: Christian Schools Must Abandon Beliefs or Lose Accreditation

The large, influential pro-LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign has demanded that Christian schools must abandon their beliefs or face losing their accreditation.
Newsmax: Cancel Culture Spirals Out of Control

When Alexi McCammond resigned as Teen Vogue's editor on Thursday...due to a handful of controversial, decade-old tweets – the 27-year-old ex-politics reporter wound up as the most recent casualty of "cancel culture."
Anxious Bench: The Religious History of March Madness

...Most of the evangelical educational institutions I study compete at lower levels of collegiate sports, but this year’s Division I bracket includes Grand Canyon and Liberty, Abilene Christian, and Oral Roberts University.
Three Reasons Why Matt Chandler Should Be Avoided

...Chandler, like much of Evangelicalism, has polished his theological apples in an effort to set himself up as one of the favored students of wokeness and to appease and receive favor from woke Evangelical Black people. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
New Dead Sea Scroll Discovery May Not Be the Last

With another 20 promising caves to be excavated — and 25% more of the Judean Desert still to be surveyed — stunning finds in Cave of Horror unlikely to be the last...
CDC Now Says 3-Foot Social Distancing for Classrooms Is Okay

Schools can safely seat students three feet apart in classrooms, rather than six feet, says new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday. Children must still wear masks, however.
Father In Canada Jailed For Calling His 14 -Year-Old Daughter 'She'

On Tuesday, the father of a biological girl who believes she is a boy turned himself into a Canadian court and was subsequently taken to jail after the Attorney General of British Columbia issued an arrest warrant for contempt after the father had insisted on referring to his daughter as his “daughter” and used the pronouns “she” and “her.”
Church Answers: How Social Media Can Hurt Your Church

...Social media could be hurting your church, and you might not know it.
If Conversion Therapy Is Banned, It Is the Bible That Will Be Silenced

...Conversion therapy is banned in four countries – Brazil, Ecuador, Germany and Malta. The state of Victoria in Australia has also banned it, and the US, Canada, and the UK seem set to follow.
Judge Arrested On Child Porn Charges Was Prez of Drag Queen Story Hour

...The Milwaukee County children’s court judge that was arrested on multiple counts of child pornography, Brett Blomme, was…wait for it…the former president and CEO of Cream City Foundation, which runs the city’s Drag Queen Story Hour program.
The Stream: We Should Be Exactly as ‘Racist’ and ‘Homophobic’ as Jesus Was

...The Woke want our churches to “welcome” unions based on sodomy and polyamory. They would force church-owned hospitals to abort babies, castrate and mutilate the mentally ill, and euthanize the elderly.
National Review: How Trump Got Control Of the Border...

And how Biden created a crisis by throwing it all away.
American Thinker: Can Liberalism Survive Science?

So, you believe in science, eh? Excellent, so do I. At the core of this science-thinking is the acceptance of the fact that there is reality.
Mises Wire: This Is What the Progressives Want To Do To Us

...Modern progressives no longer seem capable of moving from abstract to practical thinking.
Desiring God: We Cannot Cling To Bitterness and God

...There are many definitions of forgiveness, but a simple one is to surrender the right to hurt others in response to the way they’ve hurt us.
Michael Kelley: Christian, Discipline Yourself To Forgive

...Because God doesn’t run out of forgiveness for us, we must do likewise to our brothers. Forgiven people, forgive people.

Friday, March 19, 2021

Newsmax: Supreme Court Charts Next Move On Abortion Limits

The Supreme Court will meet privately on Friday to consider if it should take up a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Georgia Church ‘Heartbroken’ After Member Charged In Atlanta Killings
Townhall: H.R. 5 Might Be the Final Nail in the Coffin of Religious Liberty

...While our pastors are at home readying themselves for the next online sermon, devoid of personal touch, community, and corporate worship so important to the body of Christ, The Equality Act is preparing a more permanent padlock on the doors of their churches.
Forbes Mag Says Americans Are Spending Their Stimulus Checks On Guns

Americans are looking forward to another round of stimulus checks and gun shops are looking forward to another round of stimulus stockpiling.
New Calif. Bill Could Ban Conservative Christians From Serving As Cops

....One legal expert said this “appalling” bill, would “usher in a new era of McCarthyism” where Muslim, Catholic, Evangelicals, and even registered Republicans would be blacklisted from law enforcement jobs.
Proclaim & Defend: Dealing With Anger

...Anger has a way of doing the most harm to the one who gets angry.
Michael Kelley: The Lens Through Which a Christian Views Reality

...What lenses are you and I really seeing the world through? Are they the lenses of self? Of power? Of insecurity? They are the lenses of something.
Washington Post Admission Raises Questions About Everything

....Unfortunately for us, we don’t have an intellectually honest media...Now, we need to maintain skepticism about pretty much everything else the media has ever claimed Trump said behind closed doors.
American Thinker: Mask Mandates Do Not Save Lives

Although some studies have concluded that masks help stop the spread of COVID-19, usually they have failed to replicate real-world situations.
Church Leaders: Why the Missional Movement Will Fail

It’s time we start being brutally honest about the missional movement that has emerged in the last 10-15 years: Chances are better than not it’s going to fail.
Evangelical Mag: Encouraging One Another

By its nature, encouragement is usually an unseen and uncelebrated ministry. Yet it is so essential.
For the Church: Right and Wrong Pastoral Ambitions

...Pastoral calling and ministry training do not inoculate from wrong ambitions. But men who are humbly lashed to God’s Word, with character shaped by the gospel, will pursue right ambitions.
Ligonier: Sin Is Cosmic Treason

...However, the necessity of speaking of the sinfulness of sin has been thrust upon us by a culture and even a church that has diminished the significance of sin itself.

Thursday, March 18, 2021

'Christian' Mass Shooter Was Tired of ‘Temptation’ Posed By Massage Parlors

Christian mass shooter Robert Aaron Long, 21, told police he was addicted to pornography and was trying to eliminate “temptation” when he shot up three massage parlors in the Atlanta area, killing eight people who were mostly Asian women Tuesday evening, and was planning to shoot up more in Florida.