Category: GNN News

‘I Was a Slave to Darkness’: During Touching Baptism, Ex-Drug Addict Says She’d ‘Be Dead’ if Church Didn’t Defy COVID Closure By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire A Canadian church has a message for Christians and houses of worship alike amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: “Refuse to close your doors.” Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo, Ontario, published a video Tuesday of a woman named Jennifer Scott. The clip featured Scott’s incredibly touching baptism and her heartwarming testimony. Scott shared her journey with the congregation before publicly pronouncing her faith through immersion.…

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Your Pastor Cares When You Don’t Care AARON EARLS – LIFEWAY RESEARCH for Christianity Today Apathy ranked as the single biggest pastoral concern in 2022. Pastors face unique difficulties inherent in their career, but what are their greatest needs? Pastors themselves say they’re most concerned about seeing their churchgoers grow spiritually and making connections with those outside of their churches. After speaking directly with pastors to gather their perspectives on their ministry and personal challenges, Lifeway Research surveyed 1,000 US pastors for the 2022 Greatest Needs of Pastors study to discover…

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Rise in discrimination against European Christians ignored by media x for Life Site News Christians, as always, are the acceptable victims and convenient scapegoats for the elites, and thus violence against their persons or properties are ignored. Amid the din of pandemic reports, restrictions, and frenetic news cycles, several topics of concern frequently get lost in the noise. The persecution of Christians around the world is one of these. I recently wrote an essay for The European Conservativeon the brutal ongoing massacres in Nigeria, where Christians live faithfully in the…

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When inventors, scientists and surgeons trust God By Dan Delzell, for Christian Post William Thompson (Baron Kelvin) was one of the most eminent scientists of the 19th century. He said, “Do not be afraid of being free thinkers. If you think strongly enough you will be forced by science to the belief in God, which is the foundation of all religion. You will find science not antagonistic, but helpful to religion.” When inventors, scientists and surgeons trust God, it often has a marvelous ripple effect among their peers and others.…

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Are the miraculous gifts of the Spirit still active? from Compelling Truth In any discussion of the “miraculous” spiritual gifts, we must first recognize that God does still perform miracles today. It is clear both from Scripture and experience that God does continue to heal and perform miracles. But are the gifts of the Spirit as described in 1 Corinthians 12–14 still happening in the church today? We are not questioning the Spirit’s ability to give gifts to His people; we recognize that the Holy Spirit can dispense gifts if…

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In 2022, Run Bravely to the Battle and Sing by J. LEE GRADY for Charisma News At the beginning of every year, I set aside several days to tune out distractions and seek the Lord about the coming year. Usually God gives me a word, a phrase or a specific Scripture that provides hope and guidance. This year, the Lord dropped 2 Chronicles 20 in my heart, especially verse 22 (NASB1995), which describes how God defeated Israel’s enemies when the musicians and singers went into the battle in front of the…

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Evangelicals Have Made The Trinity a Means to an End. It’s Time to Change That. by MATTHEW BARRETT| for Christianity Today For 2,000 years, church leaders held to the same Trinitarian doctrine. How did we lose our way? The story of Ebenezer Scrooge, read afresh each year at Christmas, reminds us what to live for, what in life really matters. What could be worse than a life lived and nearly finished only to be full of regrets, haunted by the past? Thanks to the Ghost of Christmas Past, Scrooge is…

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Less than 10% of evangelicals want shorter sermons; 30% want more in-depth teaching: survey By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter for Christian Post Fewer than 10% of evangelical Protestants want to have shorter sermons during worship, while nearly a third want more in-depth teaching, according to recently released survey data. Grey Matter Research and Infinity Concepts released a new report last Friday titled “The Congregational Scorecard: What Evangelicals Want in a Church.” The researchers surveyed 1,000 American evangelical Protestants, asking for their views on 14 different elements about the churches…

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What’s the Greatest Threat Facing the Church Today? by Adriel Sanchez for Core Christianity When Paul met with the Ephesian elders in Acts 20, he gave them this solemn charge: Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did…

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