Category: GNN News

Has God Failed You? by Michael L. Brown for Ask Dr Brown f God of the Bible is who the Bible says He is, then, by His very nature, it’s impossible for Him to fail. Then why ask the question, “Has God failed you?” It’s because, for all too many people, it feels as if God failed them. Perhaps you are one of those people? Maybe you suffered a devastating loss, something that was almost impossible to bear. But what made things even worse was that you felt abandoned by God.…

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How Much Does Prayer Weigh? Why scientists struggle to put this spiritual practice under the microscope. INTERVIEW BY DANIEL SILLIMAN| for Christianity Today Praying can be easy. A prayer can be a thought, a word, a heavenward plea from someone in need, a few lines said spontaneously or recited from a book, or even just a groan. Understanding what a prayer does after it leaves your lips is a little more difficult. Christian theologians have long debated how prayer works, and what it means to say it “works.” So have…

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PreachersNSneakers creator says American churchgoers have demanded celebrity pastor culture By Jeannie Law, Christian Post Reporter GNN Note – As Casting Crowns so eliquettely says in their song “Start Right Here” – “We’ve got a rock-star preacher, who won’t wake us from our dreams.” /END PreachersNSneakers founder Ben Kirby never conceived that a casual social media post about celerity pastors’ high-priced sneakers would become a global phenomenon. Kirby, who was no internet sensation at the time, initially took to Instagram to document the expensive footwear worn by some of the celebrity pastors…

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In new interview, Abp. Viganò discusses Vatican II, decline of Marian devotion, and the Novus Ordo Mass by MAIKE HICKSON for Life Site News Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò credits Our Lady with the ‘gift’ of his ‘conversion.’ He says, ‘what unites heretics of all times is their intolerance of the cult reserved for the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Marian doctrine it presupposes and of which it is the liturgical expression.’ In a new interview, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has once more returned to the topic of the Second Vatican…

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This Divine Encounter in a Bar Led a Lost Soul to Salvation by KIM MAAS for Charisma News I often tell the story of a group of friends and I going to a restaurant with Dr. Nick Gough. We had to walk through the bar area to get to our table, and as we were being seated, we noticed he was no longer with us. Looking around, we finally found him. He was in the bar speaking with a woman and her brother. He was prophesying to her about her…

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IS THE BIBLE A WORK OF FICTION? by Dan Warne for Core Christianity Maybe you’ve heard the saying that you don’t need to defend the Bible any more than you need to defend a lion—just let it out of the cage![1] While it’s true that the Bible is God’s word and that it can stand its ground independently of our arguments in its defense, intellectual honesty demands that we take claims made against the Bible seriously. One common claim made against the Bible is that it’s a work of fiction. Someone…

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Jesus saves – What does this mean? from Compelling Truth At one time or another, most people in the Western world have heard the phrase “Jesus saves.” What does this phrase really mean? Who is Jesus? Why do we need to be saved? How does Jesus save? From what? Is this just some kind of church marketing scheme to get us to give them our money? Or does it have something to do with American politics? Unfortunately, the phrase “Jesus saves” has undergone some cultural hijacking which has obscured its…

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From New Testament Miracle to Common Phrase by Myra Kahn Adams for Town Hall Thanks for joining our Bible study. The headline teases a miraculous occurrence on the “road to Damascus” that changed the world. Later, the phrase was incorporated into our language. Here is the background. A Jewish scholar named Saul was persecuting Jewish followers of Jesus Christ. But Jesus intervened (as only He can). He unleashed His heavenly power on Saul, who converted to believing that Jesus was Lord. Saul, who was renamed “Paul,” traveled extensively in the…

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