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The spiritual gifts ‘word of wisdom’ and ‘word of knowledge’ – What are they? from Compelling Truth In the list of spiritual gifts included in 1 Corinthians 12, Paul listed the “word of wisdom” and “word of knowledge.” What are these gifts? First, very little is directly mentioned regarding these two spiritual gifts. Paul simply listed them and moved into a different discussion. As a result, there is much debate regarding the details of these two spiritual gifts. Second, the idea of the “word of” wisdom and knowledge appears to indicate…

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Most Americans Believe In Biblical God, Heaven And Hell, And Purpose For Suffering By Pamela Danziger for The Federalist Many Americans hold religious convictions including belief in God, belief in heaven and hell, and the belief that God is not to blame for human suffering. If you only watched corporate media’s coverage of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Organization abortion case before the Supreme Court last week, you’d think very few people still believed in Christianity and its values, prominent among which is the belief that life is divinely created and precious. But…

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Looking to Prove the Positive Impact of Church Attendance on Mental Health? Look No Further By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire Looking for evidence to back the benefits of regular church attendance? Look no further than a new Gallup poll, which found better mental health trends among Americans who routinely attend worship services. Forty-four percent of weekly churchgoers told Gallup they would describe their “mental health and emotional wellbeing” as “excellent.” This compares to 46% who said the same in 2020 and 42% of regular congregants who reported “excellent” mental health in 2019,…

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Insecurities, the Fear of People, Regrets, and Failure BY Edward T. Welch for Core Christianity We all have voices that tell us we are never enough. If we measure up in school, we don’t in sports or attractiveness or anything else. We always have voices, around us and in us, that assure us we are, indeed, substandard—or average, which feels just as bad. Hiding, insecurity, not comfortable in our own skin, failure, feeling worthless or at least worth less than others, fears of rejection, past regrets that we’d prefer weren’t known—all…

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Vicenza, exorcism at the sanctuary: “Twenty-eight years old possessed by the devil” by Benedetta Centin for Corriere del Veneto The young woman presented herself to the Madonna of Monte Berico and attacked a friar. Nine hour ritual. Father Rossato: “Hundreds of cases a year”. The Diocese: “Prudence” She looked out to the confessor friar, in the “cell” in the basement of the Sanctuary of the Madonna di Monte Berico, and the 28-year-old from Vicenza was transformed: screams, blasphemies and rash phrases, pronounced with different voices and languages, including Latin , according to witnesses. Shocked, they left…

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Liberal Christianity comes not from a closer study of Scripture, but of culture by Jonathan Van Maren for Life Site News Kristin Kobes du Mez accuses biblical Christians of being shaped by culture instead of Sacred Scripture. Earlier this month, conservative evangelical Denny Burk, pastor and professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, faced off on Twitter with progressive Kristin Kobes du Mez, whose book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation has been the toast of the mainstream press for the past year. There…

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Crisis in pastoral leadership: Are the apostolic and prophetic offices being restored? By Brandon Showalter, Christian Post Reporter Amid seemingly unending church and ministry leadership scandals and the exposure of unhealthy structures and institutions that enabled them, are long-lost offices of the Church being recovered? The Apostle Paul writes in Ephesians 2:20 that the Church, the household of God, is “built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the chief cornerstone.” In Ephesians 4:11-12, Paul continues that the Lord gave fivefold offices for the edification of the Church,…

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The Blessing of Brokenness—Broken yet Unbreakable by Shane Idleman A.W. Tozer was famous for saying, “It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.” Brokenness is painful, but it develops humility and dependence on God that very few experience. In the same way that olives are crushed for their expensive oil and flowers for their perfume, we too must be humbled before we can be mightily used by God. If He is breaking you, although it may be challenging, rejoice in the refining process. Isaiah…

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