Category: GNN News

THE MISSING PIECE IN OUR EVANGELISM by Adriel Sanchez for Core Christianity Many Christians today are discouraged about their poor witness for Jesus. We struggle to get conversations about Jesus started with our friends and family. In their book, Everyday Church, Tim Chester and Steve Timmis, touch on this. Many of us know how to answer the question, What must I do to be saved? But we do not know how to begin a conversation about Jesus. Our only hope is a crass, awkward change of direction, like crunching the gears in your car.…

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How You Can Enjoy a Supernatural Marriage by MARY KING for Charisma News This week on Live Your Best Life with Liz Wright, Liz sits down with Barry and Lori Byrne, founders of the life-transforming ministry, Love After Marriage. The marriage covenant is a serious institution that represents Jesus’ relationship to the church. Because Christ-centered marriages are so important in God’s heart, the enemy wants to pull them apart. We need to recognize anything coming against our marriage and stand with our spouse in unity against it, “For our struggle is not against…

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If You Need Healing, You Need This Video by LARRY TOMCZAK for Charisma News Corinth, like America, was steeped in immorality, idolatry and hostility to the simplicity of the gospel. Paul pulled no punches in boldly communicating truth accompanied by signs and wonders arresting the attention of multitudes. “My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God” (1 Cor. 2:4-5).…

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Sipping Poison Won’t Make You Wise – (Take My Word for It!) by BENJAMIN R. MERKLE for The Gospel Coalition The wisest person isn’t always the most experienced. I had to learn that the hard way. I graduated from high school as an evangelical kid—innocent enough to feel at home in church, yet insecure enough in that innocence to feel I was missing out on something. I wanted to add a layer of toughness to my skinny frame, thinking that would make me more interesting. So I joined the Marine…

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GOD’S GIFTS IN TIMES OF CRISIS by Andrew Hess for Core Christianity One of the most shocking discoveries many people make early on in their Christian journey is that Christians have not been given special immunity from the hardships, troubles, and difficulties of life. In fact, in many cases, these hard parts of life may increase as result of our faith in Christ. These experiences can be tough, and, if not understood in light of God’s Word, can even seem to choke our faith in God. Jesus knew that this…

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How Are You Stewarding Your Spiritual Hunger? by KEITH COLLINS for Charisma News The depths of Jesus and the revelation of his love for us, coupled with our pursuit of Him, are divinely connected as only by effectively appropriating both of them brings about an ongoing revelation of His glory, with an incessant hunger and thirst that cannot be quenched. As a result, the dynamic of pursuing God, even though we have already experienced redemption, is the result of a glorious understanding that there is no end to His love,…

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Why Is Sin Still Alive In Me. . . And You? by Shane Idleman When my oldest daughter was very young, we almost lost her in a drowning accident. While my wife and I were engaged in a casual conversation by the pool, my daughter walked down the steps and into the water. She was just a few feet away, yet we did not see her. Seconds later, my wife looked over and immediately pulled her up and out. We thank God for His grace that afternoon. In the same way,…

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Alabama Church Gives Perfect Response After Thief Steals American Flags for Military Heroes By Tré Goins-Phillips for Faith Wire An unidentified thief posted a lengthy apology after stealing American flags from a Fourth of July tribute set up by an Alabama church to honor its veterans, and now the congregation is inviting the remorseful robber to attend a Sunday service. The thief ultimately returned the stolen flags to First Baptist Church in Grand Bay and fessed up to his or her crime in a note left behind, according to WPMI-TV. “I’m sorry…

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What a visit to an observant Benedictine monastery can teach us by PETER KWASNIEWSKI for Life Site News Visiting a good monastery is always a challenge and a consolation. There are two important liturgical dates associated with the patron of Western monasticism and co-patron of Europe. The traditional Roman calendar observes his feast on his transitus or passing into eternal life on March 21. The modern Roman calendar observes his feast on July 11, the date of the translation of his relics. Benedictine monks and nuns customarily celebrated both feasts, which even had octaves —…

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