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The Lesson of John the Baptist’s Conception Story by Myra Kahn Adams for Town Hall Thanks for joining the first Bible study of “sparkle season,” where in the commerical world — Christmas commonly known as “holiday” — means gifts, lights, parties, trees, etc. But today, and for the next three weeks, we will celebrate what is officially known as “Advent season” until the advent (arrival) of a Jewish infant named Yeshua — born of a teenaged mother named Myriam. (The name of His real Father is a bit complicated for…

Pro-Life Organization Makes Huge Push to bring Morality Back to America by TOM CIESIELKA for Charisma News On December 1, 2021, 23 highway overpasses across America will display large blue banners bearing the message, “Abortion takes a human life.” Meanwhile, cries of “Overturn Roe” will echo in front federal buildings, courthouses, and abortion facilities in 34 states, at 103 locations, as the United States Supreme Court hears arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson. The case has gathered substantial attention from both life advocates and abortion backers because it is the most…

Death up close and personal: What salvation means to me now By Hedieh Mirahmadi for Christian Post Before I came to saving faith in Christ, I depended on my father so intensely that I would cry just at the thought of him leaving this world.  He was my anchor through the storms of life, always able to put me back on solid ground. My father was a devout Muslim, and though my conversion was initially hard to accept, his love for me as his daughter never changed. He was still my…

Defeating the Giant of Fear: Lessons From David by xx for Christian News Journal I once read an article in the Huffington Post that said 85 percent of the things we’re afraid of never happen. And of the 15 percent that happens, we often discover we can handle it better than we thought we could or we learn something from the experience. Still, many of us live with fears. While some measure of healthy fear can be helpful, fear is also one of the most destructive human emotions. When fears become irrational,…

‘I Forgive You’: Widow and Congregants of Pastor Killed by Drunk Driver Shock Judge, Move Prosecutor to Tears by Billy Hallowell for CBN News Family members and congregants of deceased Minnesota Pastor Verlyn Strenge openly forgave the man responsible for the late preacher’s death during a Nov. 24, hearing, shocking a judge and moving a prosecutor to tears. “We forgive you,” Jayme Nelson, Strenge’s daughter, said to David Nelson, the man who crashed his truck into her father’s car last year. Nelson was reportedly going nearly 70 mph and had a blood-alcohol level…

5 Ways Nonbelievers Are Drawn to God Without Knowing It INTERVIEW BY GLEN SCRIVENER for Christianity Today How the Bible’s doctrine of humanity gives us hope for reaching even the hardest of hearts. aniel Strange has spent years helping Christians connect their faith to an increasingly secularized culture, first from his teaching post at London’s Oak Hill College and currently as director of Crosslands Forum, a new center for cultural engagement and missions. In his latest book, Making Faith Magnetic: Five Hidden Themes Our Culture Can’t Stop Talking About … And…

A PEEK AT THE ENDING by Kendra Dahl for Core Christianity This is Day 1 from “The Promised Seed,” our 25-day Christmas devotional. To continue reading along with us these next 25 days, download your free devotional here. Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city. Joseph also went up…