Category: GNN News

What Does the Bible Say about Bitterness and Resentment? from CBN.com When you are offended or disappointed by others and allow the hurt to germinate in your heart, bitterness and resentment will take root. Characterized by an unforgiving spirit and generally negative, critical attitudes, bitterness and resentment are sinful and self-defeating. They will color your conscious and unconscious thoughts and actions. Allowed to fester, they will destroy and kill (Galatians 5:19-21). However, they can be dispelled with love. What Scripture Says “Make every effort to live in peace with all…

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If You are Over 60, You Could be Part of the ‘Joshua Generation’ by Michael Brown for Ask Dr Brown If you’ve been in church circles over the years, you may have heard people refer to “the Joshua Generation,” meaning young people who are full of spiritual fire and zeal, ready to make an impact for the Lord. But if we want to be accurate biblically, while the people Joshua was leading were all under 40, he himself was at least 60. How do we know this? The math is…

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Should Christians Own Guns for Self-Defense? A Global Snapshot COMPILED BY MORGAN LEE for Christianity Today Leaders in nine nations explain how they think theologically and biblically about personal safety as mass shootings plague the world. Last week, a former police officer killed 36 people, many of them young children, at a daycare in northeastern Thailand. The shooting and stabbing spree came weeks after a gunman shot and killed 17 people at a school in central Russia. In July, terrorists attacked a Sunday church service in southwest Nigeria, killing dozens…

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Male loneliness: The new epidemic by J Wayne Miraflor  for Christian Today There is a new epidemic of loneliness that is making waves across the landscape of our communities. For the purpose of this article, I will be addressing male friendships in the context of Christian community. The research is overwhelming. Men are having an increasingly difficult time creating and maintaining close friendships. In his recent article entitled, “Men’s Social Circles are Shrinking,” Daniel Cox relates some of the current statistics on this issue of declining male friendships: As Americans venture…

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‘Bold in Her Faith’: Photo of Starbucks Employee Who Prayed With a Customer in the Drive-Thru Line Inspiring Thousands By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire A Starbucks employee’s heartwarming decision to purportedly pray with someone in the drive-thru line left one Arkansas woman in awe. Tanya Hinsley of Jonesboro, Arkansas, told KSAZ-TV she was waiting in line with her 14-year-old son, Wyatt, when she observed the touching moment — and decided to snap a photo. “My son and I were having a discussion about how we loved that she stopped what…

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‘Discovering Your Identity’ with Jamie Winship by RASOOL BERRY for Christianity Today GNN Note – We have learned lots from this man and continue to learn from him with each article read and each podcast studied. We had to give up on “listening” to his podcast as the depth and richness needs to be savored. / END Reconciliation expert Jamie Winship describes how he learned to listen to God and to people around him in order to bring peaceful solutions to some of the world’s highest conflict areas. On Jamie…

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The Real Glory of America Lies in This Crucial Character Trait by American Renewal Project for Charisma News Cultural Marxism is a political and social plan centered on class warfare, pitting people against one another as it divides the country into groups—the oppressor versus the oppressed. Fascism is a doctrine of elitism where the superior crushes the inferior and the weak. It stands for oppressive totalitarian control, lawlessness and the loss of individual rights. In the summer of 2020, when Antifa and Black Lives Matter were busy torching and looting America’s…

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Emmanuel: God with us by Nic Lee for Christian Today The name “Emmanuel” means God with us. It also is the name of a very cute three-year-old who is the son of good friends, and sometimes he totally lives up to his name. However, this article is not about the kid. Instead, join me as I “blog” about recent events in my life and how God has been with me as a personal Emmanuel. It is my prayer that you can also reflect and see Emmanuel, the God who is…

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What Do Teens Think of Jesus? In Age of Chaos and Lostness, Massive Global Study Unveils Fascinating Answers By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire How do teenagers around the world view Jesus? That was one of the questions at the center of a new study conducted in coordination with a number of well-known Christian organizations. The survey, which takes into account teenage perspectives in 26 different countries, found most teens between the ages of 13 and 17 have a positive view of Christ, seeing Him as generous, wise, peaceful, and trustworthy,…

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Could Corporate Prayer Have Rescued Tampa Bay Area From Mass Devastation? by Anthony Hart for Charisma News Hurricane Ian was projected on Sunday, Sept. 25 to hit Tampa, Florida as a Category 5, prompting hundreds of thousands of people in the Tampa Bay area to be evacuated and millions of more residents to prepare, pack up and pray. The threat of such a massive hurricane to make landfall in the Tampa Bay area was frightening because it is an area that is highly vulnerable to storm surge, due to the geographical…

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