Category: GNN News

There Is Another in the Fire with You by Pastor Shane Idleman In a recent sermon I said that there is no hindrance too great, no battle too hard, and no power too strong to overpower God. Nothing can thwart His plans. We can take great comfort in that, but what do you do when you’re going through the fire—through the trial? Hear the sermon, Another in the Fire, here. We can actually learn a lot from the historical account of King Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 3, who made an image of…

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Cinematic Crusade Reaps Incredible Harvest for the Kingdom by MARTI PIEPER for Charisma News The pandemic has resulted in changes for many ministries, events, churches and individuals through most of 2020. But COVID-19 has also led to opportunities for the gospel to go forth in fresh ways. When Harvest Crusade made the difficult decision to cancel its in-person crusades scheduled this year at Anaheim’s Angel Stadium and switch to an online, cinematic format titled A Rush of Hope, many people prayed that the change would result in large numbers coming to Christ.…

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HOW TO PRAY WHEN LIFE IS FALLING APART by Andrew Hess for Core Christianity “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” Psalm 50:15 These have been days of trouble for many of us. As one pastor recently put it, “It’s like we were all signed up for a marathon we didn’t want to run, and as we approach what looks like the finish line, we are told, ‘Just keep running!’” For many, the global pandemic has seemed to spark a chain-reaction of…

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Blockbuster Survey: Christianity Is Growing as Iranians Lose Faith in Islam by CBN News For years, mission groups have been talking about the rapid growth of Christianity in Iran and now a survey of Iranian citizens is backing up those claims. Based in the Netherlands, the non-profit Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN) questioned 50,000 Iranians, 90 percent of whom live in the country. The results showed that 1.5 percent of those surveyed identified themselves as Christian. Those numbers suggest there are probably hundreds of thousands of Christians in the…

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What does it mean God is our refuge and strength (Psalm 46:1)? from Christian Truth In Psalm 46, we see the back and forth of difficult circumstances followed by reminders that God is our refuge. Verse 1 says: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” This is a comforting assurance that shows us God is our safety, strength, and help. In the proceeding verses, the psalmist tells us that our natural response to this promise is to live free from fear, no matter the circumstances: “Therefore…

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Love What’s Near TREVIN WAX for The Gospel Coalition “Our generation is prone to radicalism without follow-through,” Kevin DeYoung writes. “We want to change the world and we have never changed a diaper.” This quote has stuck with me for more than 10 years now. I’ve thought of it multiple times as life has chastened some of my youthful passion for seeing massive transformations in the culture or the church. Similarly, Andy Crouch has warned against focusing our attention on “changing the culture” out there somewhere (whatever that means) when we…

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Max Lucado Suggests a Powerful Answer to Loneliness DR. STEVE GREENE for Charisma News One thing seems certain about this time of battle with the COVID-19 virus—many of us have experienced acute loneliness. A recent national survey of adults 18-24 revealed that 24% of the surveyed young adults had considered suicide in the past 10 days. God didn’t form us to be cut off from each other or live in what feels like a never-ending quarantine. Even while walking down the street, we notice people crossing to the other side to avoid…

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MENTAL ILLNESS AND DEMONIC ACTIVITY by Simonetta Carr for Core Christianity Mental illness can cause mystifying changes in both appearance and behavior. Many relatives of people with schizophrenia, for example, have learned to detect changes in brain activity by looking at the eyes, which can go from a dead stare to rapid movements or incessant blinking. This is both frightening and puzzling. For this reason, many Christians throughout history have chosen to make simple associations. Since some people in the Bible who had a strange and scary appearance and lost…

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THREE CERTAINTIES FOR UNCERTAIN TIMES by Christina Fox  for Core Christianity Uncertainty. If there’s one word I would use to describe this year and life during a worldwide crisis, it’s uncertainty. The dictionary defines uncertainty as “being in a state of regular or constant change.” Sounds about right. Just about everything is uncertain these days. Health. Jobs. The economy. School this fall. Things change on a daily basis so there seems little in which to plant our hopes or expectations for the future. It’s hard to know what or who…

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Help! I Feel Like a Failure by GREG PHELAN for The Gospel Coalition I’ve been working on some projects that are just not moving forward. My boss has recently shut some of them down, and I can’t help but feel I’ve wasted a lot of time on things that failed. This is difficult, because I prayed diligently and worked as hard as I could on them. How can I let go of this frustration and feeling of failure? If I’ve experienced anything the last few months, it’s consistent failure. As…

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