Category: GNN News

Apologist Dismisses Biblical Critics’ Claims, Details Proof For the Virgin Birth: ‘Put Your Faith and Trust in the Evidence’ By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire Jason Jimenez, an apologist and host of the “Challenging Conversations” podcast, recently commenced an episode of his show with a fascinating question: How many of you believe in the virgin birth? It’s an essential inquiry in an era hyper-focused on the material and the self — and one obviously worth pondering during the Christmas season. Apologists like Jimenez also believe this is especially important to tackle…

What The Christmas Truce Of 1914 Teaches Us About Loving Our Enemies BY: AUBREY GULICK for The Federalist The Christmas truce of 1914 is a story many of us have heard, but it’s well worth revisiting. It’s almost too good to be true. When the angels appeared to the shepherds outside Bethlehem on that night more than 2,000 years ago, they spoke of the great tidings of the incarnation and sang what has become the universal Christmas prayer of the centuries: “Peace on Earth and goodwill toward men.” Perhaps those same…

Hotsenpiller Teaches On Supernatural Breakthrough After 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting by Shelby Bowen for Charisma News God’s design was never for you to live an ordinary life, only connecting with Him one day a week on Sunday’s. The body of Christ is meant to be bold and unashamed of the gospel, especially in an era where Christian values are mocked and looked at as less than. We sat down with Tammy Hotsenpiller to talk about living a supernatural life, fasting and prayer. “I believe we, as the church today,…

How God uses dreams and dreamers By Samuel Rodriguez, CP Contributor for Christian Post The secret to keeping your eyes on the prize is looking ahead and not behind. Once you have embraced your calling as a Christ follower, you must remain faithful to the course God has revealed to you. God will fulfill His promises as you bring your divinely inspired dreams to life. While his journey to becoming the father of a nation was never easy, Jacob experienced the life-transforming power of God through an extraordinary dream. After…

Did Mary have a midwife at Jesus’ birth? by Jim Denison, PhD for Denison Forum Just in time for Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, a group of children out for a walk recently discovered a two-thousand-year-old oil lamp poking out of the ground in northern Galilee. In other archaeological news from the Holy Land, detailed inscriptions of the Old Testament King Hezekiah, including dozens of lines and hundreds of letters, have now been decipheredin what is being called a “monumental” discovery. And the Times of Israel reports that Israeli archaeologists are…

How Do We Raise Up Bible-Minded Kids in a Lost and Chaotic Culture? By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire How do we raise Bible-minded children in a chaotic culture? That’s what Dr. Kathy Koch, founder and president of Celebrate Kids, Inc., tackles in her latest book, “Resilient Kids: Raising Them to Embrace Life with Confidence.” “One of the things that does concern me is … the helicoptering, the overprotection of children, the bubble-wrapping of kids,” she said. “I’m concerned about that because children need to grow up and develop their own…

The Purpose of Christmas by Pat Robertson for CBN News GNN Note – Pro Tip – It’s not about a fat dude coming down the chimney with a bag full of toys and presents for all the little girls and boys. / END It’s interesting that Jesus made a significant statement about His birth just before His death. During Jesus’ trial, Pilate asked about His identity. Jesus replied, “For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth” (John 18:37b,…

Does Amy Grant’s Hosting of a Gay Wedding Honor or Dishonor God? by Larry Tomczak for Charisma News “Honor marriage and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband” (Heb. 13:14, MSG). [Author’s note: I attempted to give this article to Amy prior to publishing. She declined to read it saying, “Even if I am misrepresented; even if I am in the wrong, God knows my heart.” Having reviewed the article first with five senior leaders, including Dr. Michael Brown and one of Amy’s original pastors, we pray and…

Earth Crammed with Heaven: God’s Glorious Works by John Stonestreet and Shane Morris via Christian Headlines We think it’s time to call Christians back to a bigger, older, and more thrilling way of seeing our world—of seeing Earth as crammed with heaven, because it is. Among all the memorable moments in C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, one of my favorites comes near the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Caspian and his crew land on an island inhabited by a retired star named Ramandu. True to form, young Eustace…