Category: GNN News

Life and Death Ethical Issues By Wayne Jackson for Christian Courier GNN Note – If you’re struggling with a terminally ill loved one, as we are at Gospel News Network, this is one of the better articles on the topic. We read several articles and find this one aligns closely with the teachings of Jesus Christ. We need help in these times and this may offer a little relief if you are dealing with very, very serious questions. / END Solomon once observed that there is “a time to be born, and…

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Reverend Remains Steadfast After Firebombing of Pregnancy Center, Despite ‘No Call’, Money or Other Help From NY Government By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire GNN Note – No call, no money no offer of assistance from the city…because, you know, love and all like that. / END “This is an all-out war on pregnancy centers.” That’s how the Rev. Jim Harden, president of CompassCare Pregnancy Services in Rochester, New York, framed the current rhetorical – and physical — attacks on crisis pregnancy centers. Harden has been speaking out against this violence…

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Is God still dead? by Lloyd Steffen for Christian Century The legacy of 1960s radical theology Students at Lehigh University recently dedi­cated one of their campus-wide debates to the question, “Is God dead?” I was curious why this question was being raised by Generation Z college students. Any controversy the question could generate seemed dated, like a revival from the 1960s. When I was invited to address the issue, I wondered if the students were expecting me—I’m the university chaplain at Lehigh—to discount the question and offer a stout defense of…

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The New Testament’s Most Quoted Psalms by 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. Thanks for joining us to examine the three most quoted Psalms in the New Testament. A more comprehensive view is on this chart showing the chapters where the Psalm verses are quoted. Let’s start with some background. The book of…

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The All-surpassing Knowledge of Our Omniscient God by Paul J. Palma for CBN News “What is the price of five sparrows—two copper coins? Yet God does not forget a single one of them. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows” (Luke 12:6-7, NLT). Our God knows the precise number of hairs on your head. According to New World Encyclopedia, the average human head has about 100,000 hair follicles, and each follicle grows about…

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First known depictions of biblical heroines Jael and Deborah uncovered in Israel by Kathryn Post for Christian Today The earliest known depiction of biblical heroines Jael and Deborah was discovered at an ancient synagogue in Israel, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced last week. A rendering of one figure driving a stake through the head of a military general was the initial clue that led the team to identify the figures, according to project director Jodi Magness. “This is extremely rare,” Magness, an archaeologist and religion professor at…

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The Stations of the Cross – What are they? What can we learn from the Scriptural Way of the Cross? from Compelling Truth The Stations of the Cross, also called the Way of the Cross or the Via Dolorosa, is a series of representations of Jesus carrying the cross, beginning with His sentence to death and ending with His burial in the Garden Tomb. While variations exist, the traditional, Catholic form of the Stations of the Cross includes the following 14 stations: 1. Jesus is condemned to death. 2. Jesus…

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The Prayer That Could Unlock the Power of a Much-Needed Spiritual Explosion in America by Shane Idleman for Charisma News A desire to truly experience God runs deep within our veins. However, for most Christians, experiencing God is either elusive and frightening or impossible and improbable. But to the thirsty pilgrim, God’s presence is a wellspring of life. Do we fight for it, or let it fade away? Do we contend for a deeper walk with God, or complain about our life? Do we pursue God like never before, or postpone…

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No Prayer in Public Schools—Have We Tolerated This Long Enough? by Larry Craig for Charisma News Two questions: If the First Amendment to the Constitution built a wall of separation between church and state such that the government cannot endorse or favor religion in any of its forms, how could the same Congress that wrote the First Amendment create an office of chaplain for Congress paid for by taxpayer dollars and then have this chaplain open each day of Congress with prayers in the name of Jesus? If it is constitutional…

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Let the Spirit of Faith Arise for the Transformation of America by Michael L. Brown for Ask Dr Brown We have already addressed the legal question of whether the overturning of Roecould lead to the overturning of Obergefell. And we have explained that the overturning of Roe by the Court was a matter of law, not a matter of faith. At the same time, from a spiritual perspective, the overturning of Roe was absolutely a matter of faith, which is why we thanked God for answers to prayer when the decision…

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