Category: GNN News

‘Chilling effect’ of secular intolerance on Christians is leading to ‘self-censorship’, report warns Staff Writer for Christian Today Secular intolerance is having a “chilling effect” on Christians that “directly affects their capacity to express their faith freely in society and is leading to various forms of self-censorship”, a new report has warned. ‘Perceptions on Self-Censorship’ was compiled by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe), together with the Observatory of Religious Freedom in Latin America (OLIRE) and the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF). It looked…

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‘The Chosen’ Recreates Powerful Biblical Scene, Joined by Man Whose Prophetic Word Started It All by MARTI PIEPER for Charisma News “The Chosen” creator Dallas Jenkins’ recent Instagram post says it all: “Why are there tears in my eyes? Because this is Alex, the man who messaged me over five years ago at 4 in the morning in the lowest moment of my career. God prompted him out of the blue to tell me, ‘It’s not your job to feed the 5,000, it’s only to provide the loaves and fish.’” Jenkins…

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What Jesus teaches us about helping people with their mental health by Wade Hudson-Roberts for Christian Today There is a text in the Bible I have grappled with for years and I think I might be on the way to understanding it. Aware of the imminency of his death, Jesus retreats to the garden of Gethsemane. Just before his entrance, Jesus invites his disciples to support him in prayer. Confident of their support, Jesus enters the garden. What exactly took place in the Garden we will never know but Jesus’…

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Yet Another Study Confirms the Bible’s Transformative Power By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire Atheists will often decry the Bible and its contents, yet study after study shows the strong benefits faith offers individuals and, in turn, the culture at large. The latest data corroborating the positive impact of the Gospel comes from the American Bible Society’s twelfth annual “State of the Bible” report, which “shows that Americans who consistently read and apply the Bible report greater levels of hope and resilience.” The research, based on 2,598 phone and Internet interviews…

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What will our glorified bodies look like? from Compelling Truth The Bible does not completely explain the details regarding the glorified bodies of believers, but does provide some information about what to expect. First Corinthians 15:42-53 offers perhaps the most detailed look at this topic. First Corinthians 15:42 notes, “what is raised is imperishable.” In other words, the glorified body of believers will be eternal and never decay. Verse 43 states the new body will be glorious: “It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory.” Verse 43b adds,…

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‘Peace Be With You’ 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 with volumes 57-113 will be published later this year. Thanks for joining today’s study about “Peace be with you.” But before we examine Scripture, let’s review the history of prominent peace symbols. We begin with the circular symbol representing the mid-1960s and 70’s protest culture — most notably against the Vietnam…

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‘I Put My Faith in God’: New Lakers Coach Immediately Praises the Lord Before Saying Anything Else During First Press Conference By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire GNN Note – Commitment to faith. We need a lot more of this in our society today. Imagine if more people with large platforms processed their faith – first – then began speaking about this or that, you know, all the meaningless stuff. / END Darvin Ham, the new head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, believes God is the “master of all plans,”…

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Why Every Generation Must Have Its Own Experience with God by Michael L. Brown for Ask Dr Brown According to the book of Joshua, “Israel served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced everything the LORD had done for Israel” (Joshua 24:31). After that, the next generation fell away from God. The people had not experienced His power for themselves. But they had experienced the pull of idolatry and the temptations of sin, and without their own, personal encounter with…

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Is God a therapist? By Carl R. Trueman, Voices Contributor for The Christian Post Archbishop Chaput recently wrote that holiness, above and beyond all other things, should mark the Church and her members. It was an encouraging reminder that, in an age when church leadership is often characterized by bureaucratic skills rather than piety, the Lord has yet a few who have not bowed their knee to the various Baals of efficiency, wokeism, and wonkery. And though the archbishop did not make this point explicit, it is clear that holiness…

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