Category: GNN News

For 1st time, majority of Americans not members of a church by Michael F. Haverluck for One News Now Church membership in the U.S. has been falling for decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic could have had something to do with it. But now – for the first time since Gallup began taking its poll more than eight decades ago – less than half of America’s population belongs to a church. The secularization of America Gallup reported in late March that for the first time since it began taking surveys on…

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Why Saying ‘Yes’ to God Is the First Step to Kingdom Success JOSHUA BOLD for Charisma News GNN Note – What begins happening in a persons is beyond all understanding. Saying “yes and amen” will change a life in a flash. /END We had no formal missionary training and knew nothing about the Kurdish people of northern Iraq. But in 2008 at a Passion Conference, God spoke loudly to our hearts that He was calling us to move to the Middle East to share the message of Jesus with these…

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WHY WAS JESUS BAPTIZED? by Nick Davis for Core Christianity Why did Jesus need to be baptized? This question seemed to perplex even John the Baptist (Matt. 3:14). To answer it, we need to know what kind of baptism Jesus underwent and the purpose of his ministry. Then we can see the significance of our baptism. Jesus Underwent the Baptism of John It’s significant that Jesus was baptized by John, because this baptism was a different kind than what we receive. When Jesus comes to John for baptism in Matthew 3:13–17,…

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The Global Prayer Movement that’s Helping Muslims Learn the Truth About Jesus by Steve Little for CBN News As Christians pray for the world’s 1 billion Muslims during their holy month of Ramadan, one author and researcher tells CBN News that God is behind a massive wave of Muslims coming to Christ in the past 30 years. David Garrison is the executive director of the evangelical missions group Global Gates and author of A Wind in the House of Islam: How God is Drawing Muslims Around the World. Speaking on CBN’s…

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The new scribes and scholars of the Law by PETER KWASNIEWSKI for Life Site News If Christians in earlier centuries were perhaps too quick to label ‘heresy’ any opinion they couldn’t immediately recognize as familiar and to brand as a ‘heretic’ anyone with whom they disagreed, today we are vastly too elaborate and slow in pegging as heresy an opinion at variance with Scripture or Tradition, or identifying as a heretic someone who manifestly is one. Many think that the idea of a pope being overturned for heresy is utterly unthinkable. Yet it is the sort of…

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6 Paths Toward Restoring True Christian Community by KEITH COLLINS for Charisma News Millions of modern Christians have forgotten the true meaning and purpose of spiritual community. Think about it. I’ll say two words—”church” and “fellowship.” What do you picture? A weekly service? A gathering to sing worship songs, give offerings and hear a sermon? A midweek Bible class? That’s the default mindset of most Western believers today. And none of those practices are bad in themselves. God can use them to produce great fruit in our lives! But is…

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Bored with God—Complacency in the Midst of Chaos by Shane Idleman A friend recently remarked, “Why are prayer meetings dwindling?” Granted, remnant groups are still pursuing God, but overall, our spiritual decline amid today’s turmoil is disheartening. Sadly, very few realize that the Titanic has been struck. Most people haven’t been affected by America’s unstable foundation—at least not yet. In a recent article, Dr. Michael Brown sheds much-needed light on the jackhammers that are pounding away at this foundation: “H.R. 1 would dramatically reshape our electoral system so as to cement Democratic rule…

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Franklin Graham calls on Americans to pray, because ‘God’s judgment is coming’ By Calvin Freiburger for Life Site News ‘Our country is in great trouble,’ the Evangelical leader said in reference to proposed Democrat court packing and other ‘frightening’ issues. Evangelical leader Rev. Franklin Graham has a dire warning for the United States concerning God’s reaction to the policies currently being pursued by America’s ruling class. “What’s happened politically in our country is a disgrace, what took place in the last election. It’s wrong, but it’s happened. But I just…

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CAN PEOPLE WHO DIE BY SUICIDE BE SAVED? by William Boekestein for Core Christianity There’s a reason we ask the question about the possibility of salvation for those who take their own lives. Suicide exposes the radical brokenness of the deceased. It rips the hearts and vexes the minds of those left behind. It subverts God’s interest in life. Can one die opposing God and still be saved? In thinking about the tragedy of suicide, biblical truth should both warn and comfort us. Suicide Is Sin Suicide is self-murder, the…

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‘This Is a Time When Our His Light Can Shine the Brightest’ by Maureen Mackey for Christian News Journal GNN Note – We don’t have a “light”, as Jesus Christ is the Light of the world. His light shines THROUGH us. /END Nick Hall, founder and chief communicator for Pulse, a millennial-led ministry of prayer and faith outreach, is in his 30s. Yet already he’s shared the Good News of the Gospel with more than five million people during hundreds of events around the world. And to speak to him…

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