Category: GNN News

Christianity’s Growth Problem Isn’t Politics, It’s Our Failure To Have And Evangelize Children By Joy Pullmann for The Federalist Like just about every other Western Christian body, as well as the United States, the SBC is left to squabble over shrinking slices of a dwindling pie. The New York Times put out a lengthy preview of the Southern Baptist Convention’s top controversies heading into their annual meeting this week in Nashville, Tenn. Members of the nation’s largest evangelical denomination are weighing the future of their religious body amid numerous theological controversies. The way…

WHEN NURTURING LIFE FEELS LIKE DYING by Liz Wann for Core Christianity Sometimes, parenting can just be too much. There are many times when I reach my breaking point. It’s not just the physical needs of my children that are demanding, but their emotional, mental, and spiritual needs as well. I’m playing the peacemaker between my two sons, I’m counseling, I’m discussing heart issues. Just a day of working through behavioral issues can be enough to drain me. So it’s not an overstatement to say that often, parenting feels like…

SBC highlights power of the Gospel in one man’s testimony of forgiveness after being left for dead By Brandon Showalter, Christian Post Reporter GNN Note – This was one of the most powerful testimonies I have ever heard. When Chris Carrier began sharing his story it sounded like a sexual abuse story where a small child trusted an adult when he shouldn’t have. Turns out, he shouldn’t have trusted the adult but the direction of the story would take an amazingly dark turn that only Jesus Christ could shine Light on…

Tony Evans Issues Challenge for Church to Reject World’s Attempt to Suppress Truth by NADIA JOY SCHULT for Charisma News The leader of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship sees the downward spiral America is following, and he says it’s time to stop it in its tracks. A main factor contributing to the evolution of an increasingly godless culture, Pastor Tony Evans says, is a rejection of God’s truth. And even more than that, a suppression of it. “We reject and suppress the truth because it doesn’t agree with our way, apart…

If God Does Not Exist Then Injustice Does Not Exist by Michael L. Brown for Ask Dr Brown I recently had a friendly online debate with a former Muslim known as Apostate Prophet (called AP for short). The subject was, “Does God Exist?” In my opening comments, I stated that I did not specialize in debating this issue and that I realized that arguments that seemed compelling to me would be mocked by many atheists. Conversely, I stated that I have listened to the best arguments of atheists and said to…

10 Effective Ways to Stay Hopeful in Times of Adversity and Despair by Nora Price for Christian News Journal When life’s circumstances, drop us to our knees, we can feel a loss of hope. Family and friends give words of encouragement and support, but it’s still tough to tug ourselves out of despair, anger, disappointment and frustration. However, by understanding that hope is a choice, we will cope better and keep it alive. Hope’s Superhero “Once you select hope, anything is feasible,” said Christopher Reeves, best known for his role…

Christian Rock Band Faces Severe Backlash for Post on Jesus’ Love for LGBTQ Community by JOHN MATARAZZO for Charisma News The month of June has become a yearly event when the LGBTQ community celebrates their pride in their lifestyles. The rainbow, God’s sign of His covenant to never again use a flood to destroy the earth, has now been appropriated as a symbol of pride in a lifestyle of sin. On June 7, the Christian rock band Seventh Day Slumber shared an illustration on their Facebook page of Jesus embracing an LGBTQ person…

3 IMPORTANT TRUTHS JOB’S FRIENDS NEGLECTED by Christopher Ash for Core Christianity What They Don’t Believe The trouble with [Job’s] comforters is that so much of what they say sounds right. It would be a useful exercise to read their speeches with a pencil in hand, and to put a tick in the margin against every statement they make with which we agree. There would be many ticks, and generally high marks for doctrinal orthodoxy, so much so that it is easy to think the friends are doctrinally sound teachers…