Category: GNN News

ORU Coach Says What Really Matters Is Jesus, USA Today Columnist Calls for NCAA to Boot ORU for Biblical Beliefs By Deborah Bunting for Faith Wire Oral Roberts University’s basketball team has advanced to the Sweet Sixteen with stunning wins over No. 2 seed Ohio State and No.7 Florida. ORU is only the second 15 seed in NCAA tournament history to get so far. ORU Coach Paul Mills put things in perspective and brought in the gospel message at the same time. “In 100 years, none of us will be here. And…

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4 Things People Want From Church By Shawn Vandergrift for Church Leaders People are coming and not coming to your church for a reason! Every day I talk to pastors who have their church services full of visitors. I also hear countless stories of how some visitors stay and later become members. On the same note I also hear how some visitors only come once and never come again. This leads me to understand people are searching for something that draws them beyond a one-time visit. It also leads me to…

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The Cohabitation Dilemma Comes for America’s Pastors by DAVID J. AYERS for Christianity Today GNN Note – Is it really a “dilemma”? This is not a new issue, by any stretch of the imagination. Not sure why this would be causing stress within the church as the Holy Bible is clear on this subject and, therefore, no dilemma should exist. It’s like the sexual deviants, there is no “dilemma”, we love them and explain to them the position of the Holy Bible. Either it’s acceptable to them or it isn’t.…

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UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE 7 CHURCHES, 7 STARS AND 7 ANGELS FOUND IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION by Geoffrey Grider for Now The End Begins On this episode of Rightly Dividing, we are traveling through time nearly 2,000 years into the past, coming back, and then just a short hop forward on the calendar to where we are right now here in March of 2021. The reason for the dual time trip is because we are told to observe the things that have been, the things that are…

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DOES IT MATTER HOW WE PRAY? by Dan Warne for Core Christianity “Does it matter how I pray?” If you’re a new Christian, maybe you’ve asked yourself that question. And if you’ve been a Christian for a long time, maybe it’s worth asking it again. Here are six key ways the Bible teaches us to come to God in prayer: 1. Pray sincerely. Prayer isn’t about showmanship. It’s not about flexing your prayer muscles in public for admiration or applause. Jesus says in Matthew 6:5-6, “And when you pray, you must…

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Let David Lead Us Through the Wilderness This Lent by STEVE DRAGSWOLF for Christianity Today The pandemic has disrupted everything, but the Lord remains our strength and our song. Who are you voting for? Do you require masks? Such loaded questions incited more than informed this past year. A friend and I commiserated over leading our churches through a contentious political season and a global pandemic, two realities rough enough on their own, but combined, they enflamed intense division and uncertainty in our congregations. We smirked at the sense of having…

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Tired of ‘Doing All the Things’ When You Pray? Try This Instead by MARTI PIEPER for Charisma News When it comes to prayer, Ashley Driscoll Chase says, we have a choice to make. Jesus laid those choices out for us right before he shared what we call the Lord’s Prayer—when he called out the hypocrites for their meaningless repetition. “You don’t need to wear a prayer shawl and drink oolong tea and say, ‘Om,’ and face east and all these things,” Chase says, quoting her dad and co-author of Pray Like…

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What does Ephesians 2:8–9 mean? from Compelling Truth Ephesians 2:8–9 says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” These powerful verses summarize the main point of the gospel. We are sinners who need a Savior and can only be saved by God’s grace. We put our faith in Jesus who died on the cross to pay for our sins; and we are brought into relationship…

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Why Revival is America’s Only Hope! by Shane Idleman The results are in: America’s stage four cancer has metastasized to the family and the church as well as to the government and the schools. We are more depraved than ever before. Animals are guarded but innocent children are slaughtered. Porn is protected and sex-trafficking is on the rise. Cardi B’s lyrics get a pass but Scriptures are banned on social media. Words cannot express this outright lunacy. Like the bungee jumper who plunged to her death because she thought she heard “now jump,” when,…

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The Missing Ingredient in True Apostolic Anointing by J. LEE GRADY for Charisma News A few years ago, I heard a preacher tell a roomful of ministers that they couldn’t work miracles or exercise apostolic authority unless they used the word “apostle” as a title. So some of them ran out and printed new business cards—as if putting the word in front of their names were the magic ticket to reclaiming New Testament power. That was a bad idea. For the past two decades or more, thousands of people have…

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