Category: GNN News

You’d Be a Spiritual Orphan without Pentecost by SAM ALLBERRY for The Gospel Coalition It’s hard to take in even 24 hours of the news cycle without feeling a profound sense of loss. We see loss of life, loss of justice, loss of dignity, and loss of hope all around us. The briefest scan of our own lives and circle of relationship confirms that this loss is not just “out there” and faced by others, but is relentlessly present in our own personal midst. Tragedy, sickness, trauma, and death itself…

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Nothing Is Certain Anymore—Nothing, That Is, But God’s Love by Pastor, JD Greear We are living in times when nearly everything we thought was certain is suddenly uncertain. But in the midst of that uncertainty, one thing remains: If you turn to God, you never have to wonder what he thinks of you or if he’s going to help you with your worries, big or small. It goes without saying that this season has brought on for many of us a new set of worries: How long will we be…

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How the Religious Mind – vs Political Arrogance – Copes with Death by Robert E. Wright  for American Institute for Economic Research I usually write to try to persuade, as I did way back at the beginning of the COVID Crisis when on 4 March I tried to convince policymakers that “human beings have a natural right to self-preservation. They exist for their own enjoyment, not to serve as the pawns of anyone or anything, even during putative crises.” Few listened, though some judges are finally beginning to wake up to the fact…

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Going to Church Could Save Your Life by REBECCA MCLAUGHLIN for The Gospel Coalition New Harvard Study Flags Public Health Cost of Cutting Church For the first time in forever (at least, in my culture and lifetime), gathering the local church presents a threat to public health. If we were doing church right before—singing our guts out, hugging freely, crying on shoulders, sharing food, welcoming homeless friends, and carrying each other’s kids—God’s people gathered should’ve been the most infectious show in town. Not meeting now should hurt. Meeting with social…

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Majority of Americans (Including Some Christians) Reject Moral Absolutes By Tré Goins-Phillips for Faith Wire News A majority of Americans — 58% — believe moral absolutes are determined by individuals, which seems to completely miss the point. The American Worldview Inventory survey from the faith-based Barna Group found that, of the 2,000 adults polled, some even identified as Christians. From the analysis: [R]ecognition of God as the source of truth doesn’t necessarily translate into recognizing an absolute moral standard for everyday life. Despite 72% of Evangelicals identifying God as the source of truth,…

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FIVE BASICS OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION by Dave Jenkins via Core Christianity “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” (Luke 24:27) The word “interpreted” in Luke 24:27 comes from the Greek word διερμηνεύω (transliterated as diermēneuō), which means either to unfold the meaning of what is said, explain, expound, or to translate into one’s native language. Dr. Howard Marshall is correct when he notes that the “root idea of explained is the word from which we derive the word hermeneutics, the science of…

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Husbands, Wives, and Children by Dave Jenkins for Servants of Grace Colossians 3:18-21, “18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” Today we resume our study of Colossians. Having described in 3:12–17 some characteristics of the new humanity in Christ — humanity as it should be — Paul in verses 18–21 depicts what this means for family relationships.…

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