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He Corrects Whom He Loves by Maribel Ixcajoc Arevalo for CBN News When my mother was widowed with seven daughters to raise, her only option was to discipline and reprimand us when we did wrong. She carried it out in such a way that the end result was we became “women who fear God and do good.” In those times, when I was still very young, that discipline seemed very painful to me (especially having lost my father). Very early in life, I understood, though, that it was what we needed and…

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How could Jesus pray to God if He is God? Was Jesus praying to Himself? from Compelling Truth The key to understanding how Jesus could pray to God the Father is found in Hebrews 2:17: “Therefore [Jesus] had to be made like his brothers in every respect.” One of the important callings of all people is to pray. Jesus was fully human as well as fully God, and it was perfectly fitting that He should pray to the Father in heaven. There are several reasons why Jesus, as a human…

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Why teens don’t understand who Jesus is By Andy Peck for The Christian Post Anyone involved in youth and children’s work is desperate for something positive. After all, most of the stats quoted are gloomy. Whether it’s the one saying that a large majority of young people have no connection with a local church, or that 50% of young people raised in a Christian home leave church at 18. Hence when Barna came out with their findings that “most teens have a positive perception of Jesus,” many were thinking “at last!”…

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Why We Engage in the Culture Wars by Dr Michael Brown for Ask Dr Brown Have you ever wondered if the Church should continue to engage in the culture wars? After all, we will never eradicate evil from the world, and sometimes it feels like the water is pouring into our boats faster than we can bail it out. Plus, every time we gain ground on one front, we seem to lose ground on another. Why bother fighting these time consuming, emotionally draining, financially costly battles? Wouldn’t it be better…

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Nondenominational churches surpass Southern Baptists in adherents: report By Leonardo Blair for The Christian Post In the last 10 years, the number of American Christian adherents in nondenominational churches nearly doubled in number and surpassed America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, by several million adherents, the 2020 U.S. Religion Census shows. The study, released Friday, shows that over that period, the number of adherents in Southern Baptist churches and the United Methodist Church each decreased by about 2 million, while the number of adherents in independent, nondenominational Christian churches…

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Did faith fall off a cliff during COVID? by Bob Smietana for Christian Today When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, many Americans lost the habit of churchgoing after almost every church in the country closed down their in-person services and shifted online. But did some of them give up on God? Sociologists like Michael Hout want to know. Hout, a professor of sociology at New York University, has long tracked the decline of organized religion in America. So he was interested to see that several indicators of what he called “intense religion” declined…

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A Deliverance Movement Is Spreading Like Wildfire Across America by Shelby Bowen for Charisma News An incredible move of God is happening right now across America, particularly in the youth. While the enemy may be trying to stir up confusion and deception in young men and women’s identity, God is doing something miraculous. Charisma News sat down with Pastor Vlad Savchuk who leads the HungryGen movement. The group is filled with impassioned followers of Jesus who are seeing a miraculous number of salvations, healings and deliverance. Their hearts are for the…

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Should I take meds for my depression? A Christian approach to the mental illness epidemic by Erin Kerry for Denison Forum I first began struggling with my mental health as a young teenager. Back then, churches didn’t typically attempt to address the subject of depression or anxiety, so I thought I was being a bad Christian because I couldn’t “pray it away.” When I was finally diagnosed with clinical depression, it was a relief that the sickness I experienced had a physiological aspect to it—it wasn’t just in my head. In…

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What Will Happen ’30 Seconds After the Rapture?’ End Times Experts Reveal Their Takes By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire End Times author Jeff Kinley revealed what he believes will happen “30 seconds after the rapture,” selecting five words to express how he thinks non-believers might react to the mass exodus of Christians: “shock, confusion, panic, terror, and chaos.” Kinley said the rapture — the belief that Jesus will take Christians into the skies before the terrors of the end times kick into high gear — will likely spark total pandemonium.…

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Science Hints the Holy Spirit Is More Effective Than Antidepressant Drugs to Treat Anxiety by Anthony Hart for Charisma News A first-of-its-kind clinical trial recently demonstrated that meditation is as effective as an antidepressant drug to treat people with anxiety disorders. Inadvertently, this study sparked questions about the impact of Christ-centered spirituality that is at a higher level than simply the practice of meditation. Since living life in the Holy Spirit is more powerful than human-centric meditation or what is known as “guided mindfulness-based intervention,” then it’s logical to deduce that…

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