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What is a spiritual awakening? from Christian Truth The term “spiritual awakening” is used by different people to refer to different types of spiritually-related occurrences. In general, a spiritual awakening is a new revelation, breakthrough, or enlightenment that happens within one’s spiritual life. We become consciously aware of something spiritual that we did not know before. The idea of a spiritual awakening is popular in secular movements, such as New Age, and in several different religions. From a biblical point of view, salvation serves as our primary spiritual awakening. More…

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3 THINGS WE OFTEN FORGET WHEN WE PRAY by Hywel R. Jones for Core Christianity Prayer is a feature of all world religions and also those of a more homespun variety. This is because human beings are made in the image of God and have some awareness of being indebted and accountable to some higher being or power. Pagan petitions for aid and thanksgiving for help are recorded in the Old Testament; for example, the Philistines (Judg. 16:23-24), the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:25-26), and the sailors on Jonah’s…

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GOD MAKES THE RULES THAT COUNT! by Steve Finnell for A Christian View THE SUPREME COURT CAN LEGALIZE ABORTION AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE, HOWEVER, IT REMAINS A SIN AGAINST GOD. Men can legalize, drunkenness, pedophilia, theft, murder, idolatry, sorcery, sex outside of marriage and adultery, however, there is a price to pay for living an unrepentant sinful lifestyle. Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.(NKJV) Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians…

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What does it mean that the Bible is composed of different books? from Christian Truth The Bible is really a collection of God’s Word to humanity, an anthology of different Scriptures. These individual messages were recorded over a fourteen-hundred-year period by forty different authors in three different languages depending on the language of the intended audience at the time. However, together, these messages share one common story of God working to restore His creation back to the paradise He originally created it to be by reconciling all creation back to perfect relationship with…

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Hillary Clinton Says Young People Are Leaving Church Because Christianity Is ‘Judgmental and Alienating’ By Tré Goins-Phillips for Faith Wire Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is Methodist, said last week young people are leaving the church because Christianity is too “judgmental and alienating.” “A lot of young people are leaving the Church, in part because the way they understand what Christianity has become … so judgmental, so alienating that they think to themselves, ‘Well, I don’t need that,’” Clinton explained on her podcast, “You and Me Both.” In response, her…

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ONE OF THE MOST MISUSED WORDS TODAY by A. Craig Troxel  for Core Christianity Most Used Word Appearing just under 1,000 times, the word “heart” is used in the Bible more than any other for the inner self.1 The Old Testament uses the Hebrew terms לֵב (leb) 598 times and  לבֵָב(lebab) 252 times, and the New Testament’s Greek word καρδια (kardia) appears 156 times. 2 Something that occurs that often in the Bible certainly merits a study worthy of its dignity. Think of the fact that the word “holy” is used to describe God more…

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What does it mean that God can do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine (Ephesians 3:20)? from Christian Truth In Ephesians 3:14–19, Paul prays for spiritual strength for the believers. He prays that they would be strengthened by the power of the Holy Spirit in their inner being so that as Christ dwells in their hearts through faith, they would be rooted in His love, knowing the full extent of it, and be filled with all the fullness of God. At the conclusion of this prayer, he writes: “Now…

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The Truth About ‘People of Praise’ the Media Doesn’t Want You to Know By Dan Andros for Faith Wire The media in general seems bent on making “People of Praise” sound like a secretive, dangerous, woman oppressing culture poised to have it’s patriarchal values entrenched on the Supreme Court in the form of Amy Coney Barrett, and we all should be very, very scared. But is it true? Aside from the obvious fact that Barrett rising to the position of Supreme Court Justice of the United States contradicts the narrative of…

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