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Millions Skipped Church During Pandemic. Will They Return? By DAVID SHARP via Christian News Now With millions of people having stayed home from places of worship during the coronavirus pandemic, struggling congregations have one key question: How many of them will return? As the pandemic recedes in the United States and in-person services resume, worries of a deepening slide in attendance are universal. Some houses of worship won’t make it. Smaller organizations with older congregations that struggled to adapt during the pandemic are in the greatest danger of a downward…

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How A 10-Year-Old Girl’s Mom Saved Her From Going Transgender By Walt Heyer for The Federalist With permission, I share a mother’s terrifying experience. Her story illustrates how quickly and easily a ten-year-old girl can be groomed into a cross-sex identity. When I appeared on a Heritage Foundation panel discussion in 2019, I said people are manufacturing trans gender kids. They are hurting the most vulnerable members of our society by encouraging children and adolescents to live as the opposite sex, inject hormone blockers and cross-gender hormones, and undergo surgeries that irrevocably alter healthy…

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If we prepare the sacrifice, God will bring the fire By Shane Idleman via Christian Post For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: ‘I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit…” (Isaiah 57:15-16 NKJV). In this amazing passage, it’s clear that if we prepare the sacrifice of a broken and contrite heart, that God will bring the fires of revival. It’s a great reminder that His Word always comes to pass. As the lyrics…

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SBC Unified Great Commission Vision for the Future by Ronnie W. Floyd Southern Baptists, we have a unified Great Commission vision to carry us through 2025. With confidence, pastors and church leaders can stand before our churches and say, “These are the things we will focus on and resolve to do together as Southern Baptists from now through 2025.” As you share it with your church, ask them to join our PRAYER TEAMby texting VISION to 90885. Immediately, they will join thousands of others who are participating in this major…

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The Language of Tears By Mark Loughridge for Church Leaders I came across a set of photographs of tears taken using a microscope. They are fascinating to look at; vastly different in their detail and patterns, like looking down at changing landscapes from an aeroplane. The photographer, Rose-Lynn Fisher, has pictures of tears from all sorts of circumstances: tears of happiness, grief, pain, reminiscing, tears caused by irritation or for lubrication, and many other sorts—each like a unique work of art. Some are jagged and angular, some are densely detailed, like an aerial…

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Instruments of Righteousness from Servants of Grace Romans 6:12-13, “12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.” “You have been set free from sin and made holy; now live like it” provides a helpful summary of what sanctification means in light of the gospel of Jesus Christ. God did…

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Independence Day Calls Us to the Holy Work of Repair by AMY JULIA BECKER| for Christianity Today Our flag symbolizes the beauty of American ideals and the brokenness of our history. When I was a kid, we spent two weeks each year with my grandparents in their old summer cottage on Long Island Sound. Every night around sunset, my grandfather lowered the American flag, folded it gently, and put it away. He raised it again the next morning. Even with his attentive care, the flag became tattered by the salt…

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How to Find the True Church from Persecution Over the past several years, we have witnessed increased harassment toward the Western Church. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, however, because the Church has been targeted as long as it has existed. Yet, as we’ve seen time and time again in the persecuted world, persecution has the power to cleanse the Church, driving away those who aren’t willing to pay the cost to follow Christ. The value of a church isn’t found in the number of people in the pews, but…

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