Category: GNN News

What the Bible Says About Friends by Myra Kahn Adams for Town Hall Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here. News Flash: The first 56 volumes are compiled into a book titled “Bible Study For Those Who Don’t Read The Bible.” Thanks for joining us today, and a special welcome to first-time readers. If you are blessed with close friends, you love them dearly and know the feeling is reciprocal. Love of friends is rooted in God’s love – the creator of love. He loves us, we…

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What is Life? by Brian Shilhavy for Health Impact News Life. It is one of the most common words in the English language. It is something to “live,” something to “spend,” something that begins and ends, something that is evaluated as “good” or “bad,” as “healthy” or “unhealthy.” But how do we actually define it? Is it defined by our culture, or does it have an intrinsic meaning that transcends how the culture uses the word? How you understand or define “life” affects pretty much everything you do, and I…

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Your Tragic History Matters {Lord’s Day 3} by William Boekestein for Core Christianity Q. 6. Did God create man so wicked and perverse? A. No. God created man good and in his own image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so that he might truly know God his creator, love him with all his heart, and live with God in eternal happiness, for his praise and glory. Q. 7. Then where does man’s corrupt nature come from? A. From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and…

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Knowing Jesus – the Hope of the Ages by Dave Jenkins, Executive Editor, Theology for Life Magazine for Servants of Grace Questions and discussions about the person and work of the Lord Jesus abound today, along with the variety of views about who the Lord Jesus is and what He has done in His finished and sufficient work. One example of this comes from the State of Theology conducted by Ligonier Ministries in conjunction with Lifeway Research. In their research, they asked people about who Jesus is and what He…

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‘Nobody Wants to Die Alone’: Kind Stranger Who Stayed With Gunshot Victim to His Last Breath Reflects on Fragility of Life By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire GNN Note – Compassion on a level most of us will never know or understand. / END “All this gun violence gotta stop.” That was Racquan Hazelwood’s message after the good Samaritan witnessed an unthinkable tragedy Tuesday afternoon in Richmond, Virginia when a man died after being shot and crashing his car. Hazelwood, who witnessed the victim’s car crash into a pole, went toward…

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Are We All Called to Evangelize? by Stephen Roberts for Core Christianity It wasn’t too long ago when evangelism seemed like the end-all-be-all of the American church. Teaching and preaching were aimed at mobilizing God’s people for missional living. They were taught slick strategies for presenting the gospel on the fly and provided clever arguments for defending God’s work of creation, the resurrection of Jesus, and the inerrancy of the Bible. While the zeal was laudable, it often left Christians feeling burnt-out, discouraged, and disillusioned. Those with particular gifts in evangelism…

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7 Signs the Leaven of Herod Has Taken Root in Your Life by JOSEPH MATTERA for Charisma News In Mark 8:15, Jesus warned the disciples about the leaven of Herod. He explained that the leaven of the Pharisees was hypocrisy but did not elaborate on the leaven of Herod. Since Herod was a political leader, I believe it is likely that the leaven Jesus was warning against was political entanglements. I believe that such entanglements often pollute a person’s pure devotion to the kingdom of God. By leaven, Jesus refers to…

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11 Years Ago I Wrote That It’s Not Too Late to Turn the Tide. Was I Wrong? by Michael L. Brown for Ask Dr Brown The last chapter to my 700-page, 2011 book A Queer Thing Happened to America: And What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been was titled, “GLBT and Beyond: Reflections On Our Current Trajectory.” (In those days, it was customary to put the G before the L.) In that chapter, I laid out where LGBT activism was heading, describing just where the trajectory would take us. Yet, as…

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When the Fire Fades—Reigniting Passion for God by Pastor, Shane Idleman Throughout the Bible, we see that there is only one remedy—one solution, one cure—to rekindle a dead spiritual life: revival. Revival is when we till the soil of our heart through brokenness, humility, and surrender via fasting, prayer, and obedience. God responds by rending the heavens with a spiritual downpour and reviving our parched soul: “Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you” (Isaiah 64:1)! During seasons of spiritual awakenings,…

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