Category: GNN News

Record High Number of Professions of Faith Recorded at Falls Creek By Chris Doyle/Baptist Messenger for Baptist Press “To Him be the glory forever” – part of the theme Scripture for summer youth weeks at Falls Creek Conference Center – could also be the response from camp leadership, who saw God move in a powerful way during the eight weeks of camp. Falls Creek witnessed 2,645 campers make professions of faith in Christ, the most recorded during a summer at the campground in the Arbuckle Mountains. More than 5,600 total spiritual…

Are There Too Many ‘Prophets’ Operating by Occultic Powers? by BERT FARIAS Charisma News “We are gathering a company of prophets in different local cities and regions, so that we can prophesy into the atmosphere to cause a shift in the region,” said one prophet. This belief system and mode of operation is common in the “prophetic” ministry today. Honestly, my spirit is disturbed when I hear such statements. To be clear, I am a strong proponent of the Ephesians 4:11 ministry gifts and the supernatural manifestation of the gifts…

If You Want to Follow Christ . . . by Greg Laurie for Harvest Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.’ —Matthew 16:24 The cross has become a symbol of many things today. We see it depicted as a religious icon and in ornate jewelry. Yet the real cross of history was the symbol of a very cruel death. For people of the first century, the cross was a hated, despised symbol.…

NO SEPARATION FROM GOD’S LOVE by Ligonier Bible Study for Servants of Grace Romans 8:38-39, “38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Scripture, being the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God, paints a stunningly realistic picture of life as a servant of the Lord. None of the biblical authors sugarcoat…

What Does It Mean to Be Born Again? by PITTS EVANS for Charisma News When Jesus was approached by a sympathetic Jewish teacher named Nicodemus, He said that no one would ever see the kingdom of God unless they were “born again” (see John 3:3). In other words, neither being born Jewish nor conversion to Judaism was sufficient for eternal life. This unequivocal declaration transcended any biblical understanding Nicodemus then had, so Jesus further explained, “flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit” (John 3:6). This…

Pied Piper Preachers and the Gospel of No Responsibility by Michael L. Brown for Ask Dr Brown A recent article (which I will not link here) proclaimed the salacious news that a Christian woman is stripping online (and getting rich in the process) because that is what God what wants her to do. She claims to have a personal relationship with Jesus, but without the baggage of thousands of years of man-made doctrine. And, she claims, whenever she asks God about stripping naked online, He always gives her the same answer:…

How can I heal from the pain of betrayal? from Compelling Truth There is perhaps no greater insult to relationship than betrayal. Betrayal robs us of a sense of security. Someone close to us has proven untrustworthy. Most of us have felt the sting of betrayal; likely most of us have even inflicted it. So what do we do about it? There are obvious dangers in not overcoming the pain betrayal causes—losing the ability to trust, becoming a betrayer in retaliation or self-defense, not acknowledging the betrayal and thereby exposing…