President Barack Obama met with religious leaders in Texas this week in hopes of finding a solution to the nation’s border crisis. Border Patrol agents have already detained more than 50,000 kids this year. Children as young as 6 years old are crossing on their own, spurred on in many cases by parents hoping they […]
It’s amazing to me how the Internet is heightening our awareness of what is going on in the world to a whole new level. Things all around the globe that have been cloaked in obscurity for hundreds of years are now coming to light, many of them taking center stage in mainstream media. Take for
There are increasing fears that European-born young men who go to Syria will get caught up in the fight of radical Islamic extremists to establish an Islamic Sharia-based state across Syria and Iraq, and then return to their own countries to try to do the same. A British man told the BBC on Friday he’d
Like baseball players emerging from a cornfield in the 1989 Hollywood hit Field of Dreams, supporters are lining up behind a Colorado pastor’s vision of building a nearly $1 million ball park “in the name of Jesus and to the glory of God” in Louisiana. Though he’s not heard a voice telling him to “build
The Church of God of Prophecy, a Pentecostal denomination reporting a membership of more than a million constituents around the globe, will hold its biennial International Assembly in Orlando, Florida, July 30 to August 3. Foremost on the agenda for the 10,000 or more expected church leaders and members will be the selection of a
Not being able to use the oven as an 8-year-old, I became quite skilled at cooking meals for myself in the microwave oven. Nearly every morning I would make a full breakfast complete with scrambled eggs, bacon and grits buttered to southern perfection. My mom was amused by her little chef and let me enjoy
There has been a movement the past four decades among various segments of the body of Christ toward embracing the way of Jesus and the apostles as found in the first century church. Extensive writing has been done in this regard by Jeff Reed, the founder of BILD International who has given his life over
Ashley King’s spoken word against the pop music and entertainment industry may have been released in 2012, but her sharp rebuke—artfully mashed up against Christ-exalting messages of hope—are more relevant than ever today. “Dear Pop Culture” is the YouTube star’s rallying cry condemning the negative examples in pop culture which she says present the God-made
In April this year, a pregnant woman asked Professor Bogdan Chazan, director of Warsaw’s Holy Family Hospital, for an abortion because her own physician had diagnosed her unborn child with grave health problems. Chazan sent the woman a letter saying he could not agree to an abortion in his hospital because of a “conflict of
The violence in Iraq is hastening the end of nearly 2,000 years of Christianity there as the few remaining faithful flee Islamic State militants, archbishops from Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk said on Wednesday. War and sectarian conflict have shrunk Iraq’s Christian population to about 400,000 from 1.5 million before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, and
In November 2013, Sweden’s Höglandssjukhuset women’s clinic rescinded a job offer as a midwife from Ellinor Grimmark after she explained that she could not perform abortions because of her Christian faith. The head of the maternity ward left her a telephone message saying that “she was no longer welcome to work with them” and questioned
The gifts of the Spirit are given to fulfill the mission of the Church. We have a great variety of gifts the Spirit brings to us personally and to the church as a whole because of Christ. Perhaps if you’ve ever heard a description of the gifts of the Spirit, you have had that description limited
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