By Dan Dalzell You were born about 2000 years after Jesus Christ lived, died and rose again from the grave. Before you even entered this world, God had already created you in your mother’s womb. And you were created by God for a purpose. You were created to be a Christian. It’s not like God…
By Joyce Meyer When God delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, they had to go through the wilderness to get to the Promised Land He had for them. It was an eleven-day journey, but they spent 40 long, painful years wandering in the wilderness before any of them entered the land. And in the…
By Bob Smietana College students are almost evenly divided into three camps when it comes to faith, according to a new study released Thursday (Sept. 26). About a third, 32%, are true believers. Another 32% are spiritual but not religious. And 28% consider themselves secular. Researchers from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., asked students nationwide…
By Art Lindsley At least in America, evangelical churches have largely neglected the subjects of faith, work, and calling. We tend to focus on salvation, evangelism, or basic personal discipleship (Bible reading, prayer, fellowship) but ignore what most people do 40, 60, or 80 hours a week. When I read the following quote from William…
By Todd Starnes A Tennessee mom is looking for answers after her daughter’s teacher refused to let the child write about God for a school assignment. Erin Shead, a 10-year-old student at Lucy Elementary School in Millington, was assigned to write about someone she idolized. The girl, who is a Christian, decided to write about…
By Lore Ferguson There are times I wish we could capitalize letters verbally. One of the main speakers at a conference I attended this week stated his case, including some lines about “the church shrinking these days.” Did he mean his local church, lowercase c? Or did he mean the great, grand, beautiful capital C…
The recent story of a Tennessee judge changing the legal name of an infant whose parents took one another to court in a dispute over child support has garnered national attention. The questions raised by the secular media center around a parent’s freedom to name their child whatever they choose, religious liberty and the judicial…
Andree Seu Peterson I come from a family that doesn’t like to bother people, and we have that quality to a fault. As a child, when I stood in the doorway of my grandmother’s house and was offered a drink, I knew that the right answer was, “No thank you” (even if I wanted one)….
By La Shawn Barber When I read that the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) decided to exclude from its hymnals the song “In Christ Alone” (see video below) because the second verse mentions God’s wrath, I knew it was more evidence of doctrinal slide. The PCUSA, which takes a “progressive” view of Scripture, asked the song’s…
By Carey Nieuwhof According to this survey, the number of people in Canada who profess “no religion” is now at 24 percent, up from 16.5 percent a decade earlier. That’s a massive shift in a mere 10 years. As I reflect on it all, I’m left with this growing realization: People are learning to live comfortably without God. Want…