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What is the importance of Jesus’ baptism? Why was He baptized? from Compelling Truth John the Baptist provided a baptism that served as a sign of repentance, but Jesus was without sin (Hebrews 4:15). So why did John baptize Jesus? At first, even John the Baptist sought to dismiss Jesus’ request for baptism. He said, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” (Matthew 3:14). John recognized Jesus was the spotless Lamb of God (John 1:29) who did not need to be baptized to show…

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9 errors of the Gospel of self-fulfillment By Joseph Mattera, Op-ed Contributor for Christian Post Since the dawn of the “positive thinking” message of Norman Vincent Peale in the 20th century, there has been an avalanche of preachers teaching variations of this message. (The “health and wealth” prosperity gospel, “name it and claim it,” along with various modes of motivational types of preaching.) When the objective is “self-fulfillment,” the message often reduces the gospel of Christ to appease the narcissistic dreams of half-baked Christians. The following are nine errors of…

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Words of Christ Prove the World Hates, Attacks Truth by James Lasher for Charisma News Tribalism has taken hold within the world today. Whether it be race, religion, country, ethnicity or any other demographic, humans are drawing their own lines and standing with those who think and believe like them. The greatest dividing factor was prophesied 2,000 years ago, by none other than the Messiah of humanity, Jesus Christ. In John chapter 15, Jesus tells His disciples that they will be hated by the world because He is the truth and…

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Men: Spend More Time with God By MARK JUDGE for The Stream Masculinity is in the news again. The film Don’t Worry Darling caused a minor stir when it based a main character on Jordan Peterson and depicted men as wanting to talk women back to the 1950s. Tucker Carlson has an entire documentary called The End of Men, focusing on the massive drop in testosterone levels over the last several decades. These cultural flare-ups about masculinity happen pretty frequently. But I’d like to propose something a little different: Men these…

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‘I Was Seeing Demons’: Ex-Satanist Almost Took His Own Life Before Christ Broke Through By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire “I found myself giving myself to Satan.” That’s not an admission one would expect to hear from a preacher, but Ben Atkins wasn’t always a believer. In fact, the U.K.-based pastor went through quite a harrowing journey — one that took him into the bowels of a Satanic worldview before he discovered hope in Christ. “This is my story. These are my experiences,” Atkins recently said on “The Playing With Fire”…

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Will the Western Church go the same way as the Conservative party? by Gavin Ashenden for Christian Today That we live surrounded by political chaos might be dispiriting, but should not surprise us. Societies that turn their back on believing in God and reject Judeao-Christian morality, exchange a moral foundation that has worked astonishingly powerfully to create a stability and a creativity for the world of the mind, heart and spirit, for alternative values that often dehumanise, destabilise and disorientate. The same is true of political parties. The chaos the…

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What the Hebrew Bible Says About Glorifying God Myra Kahn Adams for Town Hall Author’s Note: Readers can find all previous volumes of this series here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book “Bible Study For Those Who Don’t Read The Bible.”  Part Two, featuring volumes 57-113, will be published later this year. A special welcome to Townhall readers who “stumble upon this quick, compelling Bible study series.” That is a quote from a reader’s email I received this week. He “thanked Townhall for publishing this study” and wrote, “Blessing to you…

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“CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES” INSCRIPTION POINTS TO THE APOSTLE PETER by Lora Gilb for Patterns Of Evidence Summary: Archaeologists have discovered a 1,000-year-old mosaic inscription at el-Araj, the contested site of biblical Bethsaida, that points to the Apostle Peter and his role as a leader of the early Church. “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” – Matthew 16:18 (ESV) Contested Location of Bethsaida: el-Araj or et-Tell? A large Greek mosaic inscription…

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What Is All Saints’ Day? by Terry Whalin for CBN News The still night in the fall stands out in my mind. My family was living in an area that was miles away from any blacktopped road in Guatemala, Central America. Our calendars showed a religious holiday called All Saints’ Day. Unlike the American tradition of Halloween, there were no children carrying bags headed for trick-or-treating. Instead I stood in the starlit night in a cemetery stirring with activity. Many of the local people had gathered at the cemetery for an…

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